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Movie Quote of the Day – Bull Durham, 1988 (dir. Ron Shelton)
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Ooh, I’ve heard of stuff like this. Bring it on!
Annie Savoy: Sweetie, Have you heard of Walt Whitman?
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: No. Who’s he play for?
Movie Quote of the Day – Running On Empty, 1988 (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Lorna: You are certifiable! What is this? Some sort of smart-ass joke? You’re taking cooking?
Michael: I want to learn how to cook.
Lorna: Yeah, right. You have some burning desire to learn how to make apple brown betty. . .
Michael: What are you doing here if you think so highly of it?
Lorna: Well, they wouldn’t let me take auto mechanics, and I didn’t have time to take the issue to the Supreme Court.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Accused, 1988 (dir. Jonathan Kaplan)
Kathryn Murphy: How were you dressed?
Sarah Tobias: What’s that supposed to mean?
Kathryn Murphy: It means were you dressed provocatively? Showing a lot of cleavage? See-through blouse?
Sarah Tobias: What the fuck does it matter how I was dressed? They tore it off of me.
Kathryn Murphy: But did how you dressed make those guys think they could have sex with you? Did you put on a show?
Sarah Tobias: What the hell are you talkin’ about? You saw me at the hospital. You think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that’s what you think, get the fuck outta my house.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beaches, 1988 (dir. Garry Marshall)
CC: What do you think?
Hillary: Oh, it’s gorgeous!
CC: Do I look like Marilyn? I don’t look a thing like Marilyn.
Hillary: My turn. How is it?
CC: Hillary, it’s exactly the same color.
Hillary: What’s wrong? No, it isn’t. No.
CC: You just spent two hours dying your hair exactly the same color.
Hillary: It’s a subtle difference.
CC: I don’t think so.
Movie Quote of the Day – Another Woman, 1988 (dir. Woody Allen)
Marion: I closed the book and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost.
Movie Quote of the Day – Earth Girls Are Easy, 1988 (dir. Julien Temple)
Mac: What is is sex?
Valerie: Sex? You know, making love. A man and a woman like each other and they take their clothes off. . .
Mac: Okay.
Valerie: No. No. No. We can’t because me and Ted are. . .well I guess we’re not. But I mean, we can’t because you’re an alien and I’m from the Valley and we may not even be, you know, anatomically corrector for each other. That could be a real problem [Mac’s pants unzip] No problem. But I mean, no, no, no. It just wouldn’t work. I mean you’re from out of town. The phone bills would just be hell.
Mac: Shh. . .
Valerie: I didn’t want you to think Earth girls were easy.
Mac: What is “easy”?
Valerie: This is “easy”.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beetlejuice, 1988 (dir. Tim Burton)
Barbara: Adam, is this what happens when you die?
Receptionist: This is what happens when *you* die. [points at a gaunt man smoking] That is what happens when *he* dies.
[points at a woman cut in half on the sofa reading] And that is what happens when *they* die. It’s all very personal. And I’ll tell you something: if I knew then what I know now. . .I wouldn’t have had my little accident.
[the dead people laugh]
Oscar Vault Monday – Mississippi Burning, 1988 (dir. Alan Parker)
I just saw Mississippi Burning, which is fictionalized account of real events that happened in Mississippi in 1964, for the first time a few weeks ago and it really blew me away. It may not be a perfect film, but it’s definitely a film with a strong world-view. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one: Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Cinematography (won), Best Supporting Actress Frances McDormand, Best Actor Gene Hackman, Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Working Girl and winner Rain Man.
Movie Quote of the Day – Working Girl, 1988 (dir. Mike Nichols)
Tess McGill: You know, maybe I just don’t like you.
Jack Trainer: Me? Naaah!
Movie Quote of the Day – Rain Man, 1988 (dir. Barry Levinson)
Charlie: Alright, Ray, all airlines. . .all airlines have crashed at one time or another, that doesn’t mean that they are not safe.
Raymond: Qantas.
Charlie: Qantas?
Raymond: Qantas never crashed.
Charlie: Qantas?!
Raymond: Never crashed.
Charlie: Oh that’s gonna do me a lot of good, Ray. You see, Qantas doesn’t fly to L.A. out of Cincinnati, you have to get to Melbourne! Melbourne. . .
Raymond: Australia.
Charlie: . . .Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles!
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