College coeds go looking for love during spring break in Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale was the hot spot for sun, surf, Elvis, boys and girls. Fort Lauderdale was the original spring break destination, dating. In Love Hard, an L.A.-based dating columnist flies to New York to meet someone from a dating site, only to find she's been communicating with.
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An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
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As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Based on a true story.
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IN VERY PARTICULAR ORDER, HERE’S OUR (CURRENTLY DEFINITIVE) PICK OF THE GREATEST IRISH MOVIES EVER MADE
No sane person will sincerely claim that the ranking of cultural entities is anything other than a sophisticated parlour game.
When it comes to Irish film, however, the debate will invariably focus less on relative placings – whether Garage is better than The Quiet Man – than on how we are defining our terms. Is The Quiet Man Irish at all? It was financed by an American studio and set in a fanciful version of the real nation.
Our rules are looser than some may prefer. Significant numbers of Irish personnel is a factor. Notable levels of Irish funding scores you a few more points on our jerry-rigged scale
When testing a novel for Irishness, we need focus our attention on the writer alone. Colm Tóibín’s The Master may be set in England and published by a British house, but nobody would claim it was anything other than an Irish book. John Crowley’s adaptation of Tóibín’s Brooklyn is Irish as well. But it’s also British and a little bit Canadian. A co-production of the BBC and the Irish Film Board (among others), it quite reasonably competed for awards at both the British and Irish Academies. Few of the films on this list pass the purity test for absolute uncorrupted Irishness.
Our rules are looser than some may prefer. Significant numbers of Irish personnel is a factor. Notable levels of Irish funding scores you a few more points on our jerry-rigged scale. Shooting a film in Ireland gets you a long way down the road, but, as should be obvious, external productions that use the country as a stand-in for somewhere else aren’t getting anywhere with the jury. Neither Saving Private Ryan (Normandy in Wexford) nor The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (the Berlin Wall in Smithfield) was up for consideration.
Setting a film in Ireland is not in itself a qualification. We would never have been much tempted by Waking Ned, a British production filmed in the Isle of Man, but Yann Demange’s 1971, a British film shot in Liverpool and Sheffield, would have walked in if Northern Ireland Screen had lured the filmmakers to the real Belfast.
This is not a ranking of Irishness. Once a film has qualified it competes equally with all others. Some may reasonably think our top film among the least Irish of the bunch. So be it
Decisions also had to be made as to what we mean by a feature film. We settled on a production made for theatrical exhibition that exceeds 70 minutes. Pat O’Connor’s fine The Ballroom of Romance fails on two counts. It is a television production that comes in at 65 minutes. (At the 1983 Bafta awards, it won in the TV section, not the film race). Playing hardball on length, we had to regretfully exclude the early work of Vivienne Dick, Bob Quinn’s legendary Poitín and more recent films such as Graham Seely and Kevin Brannigan’s The Man With the Hat.
The final ranking is – as all such rankings must be – the creation of a fleeting mood. The order may have been different an hour or so later. It is not, however, a ranking of Irishness. Once a film has qualified it competes equally with all others. Some may reasonably think our top film among the least Irish of the bunch. So be it. Having made the grade, we asked only whether it is better than the rest. The answer today was “yes”. Tomorrow, who knows?
50. Korea Cathal Black, 1995 Black was among those who made Irish films happen at a time when such things were as rare as Irish space probes. He reached maturity with a rural saga, adapted from a John McGahern story, that covered a great many domestic neuroses – emigration, the Civil War, generational discord – in an impressively small space.
49. Cardboard Gangsters Mark O’Connor, 2017 Weed-peddler Jayson (writer and star John Connors) and his crew get an opportunity to offload some heroin, a career move that pits them against local kingpin Derra (Jimmy Smallhorne). Unabashedly masculine and in thrall to the Goodfellas template, this is the most polished collaboration between the director and the multitalented Connors.
48. Intermission John Crowley, 2003 A decade after Pulp Fiction, any collection of interweaving urban stories was likely to attract the adjective “Tarantinoesque”, but Mark O’Rowe’s abrasive script sang to his own unsentimental melodies. Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Colm Meaney buzzed about a heightened Dublin. The shot of kissing buses still hangs in the brain.
47. Snap (Carmel Winters, 2010) Fifteen-year-old Stephen (Stephen Moran) snatches a toddler from a park and holds him captive for five days. Three years on, his mother (Aisling O’Sullivan) investigates in this cleverly constructed and unsettling mystery from the director of Float Like a Butterfly.
46. Kisses Lance Daly, 2008 Daly recently had a domestic hit with the Famine drama Black 47, but we’ve gone for his quieter film about a couple of young Dublin neighbours who light out for the territory at Christmas time. The director draws beautiful, unhurried performances from Kelly O’Neill and Shane Curry. A minor-key gem.
45. Good Favour Rebecca Daly, 2017 An ailing stranger stumbles from the woodland into a small, isolated religious community. He recovers and befriends the children of the colony but his “otherness” remains, especially when things start to go wrong. Is he there as a saviour or something more sinister? As ever, Daly keeps you guessing.
44. Saviours Liam Nolan, Ross Whitaker, 2007 Fiercely felt documentary concerning three boxers from Saint Saviours Academy in Dublin’s north inner city. Made over two years with sparse funding, the film is as much an appreciation of a culture as a sports movie. Whitaker returned to the fight game with his great doc on Katie Taylor.
43. Kings Tom Collins, 2011 In the 1970s, a group of young men leave Connemara. Decades later, they reunite at the funeral of a friend. Colm Meaney heads the cast of this award-winning bilingual drama, adapted from Jimmy Murphy’s play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road.
42. Hush-a-Bye Baby Margo Harkin, 1989 Set in Derry, Harkin’s highly original drama follows a young woman as she navigates an unexpected pregnancy with no apparent support from an imprisoned father. Unavoidable comparisons with the notorious Kerry babies case. Strong lead performance from Emer McCourt. Sterling support from rising national treasure Sinéad O’Connor.
41. The Secret of Roan Inish John Sayles, 1994 In the 1940s, a young girl is sent to the Donegal island of the title, where her extended family tell her about selkies and her missing younger brother. A magical piece of storytelling about storytelling with a great teller in the late Mick Lally.
40. Shadow Dancer James Marsh, 2012 No accent issues for the untouchable Andrea Riseborough as a conflicted informant during the later years of the Troubles in Belfast. Accused of being pro-IRA by the Daily Mail and “unashamedly pro-British” by other critics. It remains a singularly strong thriller from a fine director.
39. Maudie Aisling Walsh, 2016 Folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) lives a troubled life in Nova Scotia as she struggles with various ailments, a lost daughter, and an abusive husband (Ethan Hawke). Slowly, however, her paintings bring visitors and admiration.
38. Silent Grace Maeve Murphy, 2001 Murphy’s study of protests by female Republicans in Armagh Prison during the early 1980s felt like an overdue correction. It was a shoestring production, but Murphy’s poetic script and strong performances from Orla Brady and Cathleen Bradley helped it to soar. The film’s reputation has steadily increased over the intervening decades.
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37. In America Jim Sheridan, 2002 Semi-autobiographical, Oscar-nominated drama co-written by the director and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, in which a Dublin family relocate to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1980s. There, the parents (Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton) struggle while their young daughters befriend a reclusive Nigerian photographer (Djimon Hounsou).
36. The Commitments Alan Parker, 1991 The Snapper and The Van may be more coherent Roddy Doyle adaptations, but one can’t ignore the impact Alan Parker’s vibrant Dublin musical had on a city on the brink of unprecedented cultural upheavals. Generated a touring act, a stage production and a handful of durable careers.
35. Flight of the Doves Ralph Nelson, 1971 Once maligned as high blarney, this adaptation of Walter Macken’s 1967 novel has gained a cult following in recent years. Two Liverpool children escape their cruel uncle (Ron Moody) and run away to Galway. Features a great St Patrick’s Day chase and the forward-thinking, inclusive anthem, You Don’t Have to Be Irish to be Irish.
34. The General John Boorman, 1998 Or Excalibur? Or Zardoz? Boorman has had an inestimable effect on the Irish film industry. His most durable commentary on the nation is this troubling, ambiguous engagement with hoodlum Martin Cahill. Gave Brendan Gleeson his first lead role in a feature. Lovely monochrome photography from Seamus Deasy.
33. Waveriders Joel Conroy, 2008 Cillian Murphy narrates this award-winning doc that chronicles Irish-Hawaiian George Freeth’s early 20th-century contributions to surfing alongside modern practitioners Richie Fitzgerald, Kelly Slater and Easkey Britton, as they take on a monstrous 60-foot wave off the Cliffs of Moher.
32. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Kim Bartley, Donnacha Ó Briain, 2003 Fascinating – and controversial – documentary concerning the 2002 coup d’etat attempt on the Chávez regime in Venezuela. Works, among other things, as an eloquent treatise on media manipulation.
31. Gaza Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell, 2019 This beautifully shot documentary portrait of life in the strip of the title, home to nearly two million Palestinians, was filmed over four years. For all the trials and turmoil on screen, it’s a representation of, as one taxi-driver puts it, people who “just want to live their lives”.
30. The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore, 2009 Cartoon Saloon, based in Kilkenny, has been one of the great success stories in Irish cinema history. The first of its three(!) Oscar nominations in the feature animation section came with this gorgeously rich fantasy structured around the creation of the Book of Kells. A phenomenon.
29. December Bride Thaddeus O’Sullivan, 1991 Two brothers (Donal McCann and Ciarán Hinds) and a servant, Sarah (Saskia Reeves) form a scandalous love triangle in rural Ulster at the turn of the century. Sarah’s continued distaste for convention brings her into conflict with locals, a minister, and finally, her own children.
28. Bloody Sunday Paul Greengrass, 2002 Though made for Granada TV, Greengrass’s kinetic take on a seismic tragedy debuted at Sundance and received a theatrical release. So it counts. James Nesbitt is excellent as the heroic Ivan Cooper. Ballymun does good work as Derry. But it is the dynamism of the filmmaking that sticks in the memory.
27. Garage Lenny Abrahamson, 2007 A lonely petrol station attendant with learning difficulties (Pat Shortt) befriends his 15-year-old co-worker in an award-winning drama that delicately segues from comedy to tragedy.
26. The Image You Missed Donal Foreman, 2018 Foreman is among the most interesting and original of younger Irish filmmakers. This eccentric documentary combines a study of his father, the late filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, with a consideration of political instabilities in Northern Ireland. A singular piece from an original mind.
25. The Killing of a Sacred Deer Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017 The Greek director’s characteristically curveball adaptation of Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides sees Colin Farrell’s cardiothoracic surgeon stalked by a vengeful Barry Keoghan.
24. His & Hers Ken Wardop, 2010 Wardrop has carved out his own niche in documentary, making elegantly composed collages of ordinary lives. His 2010 masterpiece – a real hit on domestic release – moves among 70 women, their contributions arranged in order of age from infants to wise elders. Charming. Heart-breaking.
23. The Butcher Boy Neil Jordan, 1997 When his mother commits suicide, 12-year-old Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), retreats into violent fantasy fuelled by comic books, cowboys and Indians and atomic age anxieties in a black comedy adapted from Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel.
22. Odd Man Out Carol Reed, 1947 Beware. Whatever the Belfast locals may tell you, the scene in the pub was not actually shot in the Crown Bar. Many of the exteriors were, however, filmed in the city. So we can count Reed’s masterly thriller as among the great Belfast films. James Mason is the IRA man on the run.
21. The Rocky Road to Dublin Peter Lennon, 1967 Dublin has never looked more unlovely and backward than in journalist Peter Lennon’s contemporaneous depiction of Ireland, as the filmmaker begs the question: “What do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?”
20. The Farthest Emer Reynolds, 2017 Stunning documentary from a versatile talent – also one of our best editors – on the Voyager space probe. A sense of awe permeates the boffins’ descriptions of great achievements completed with relatively rudimentary computing power.
19. Good Vibrations Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, 2013 In the 1970s, as sectarian conflict in Belfast rages, DJ Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer) opens a record shop “on the most bombed half-mile in Europe, ” and the Ulster punk scene is born. An energetic delight from the directors of Ordinary Love and Cherrybomb.
18. Silence Pat Collins, 2012 Sui generis oddity concerning a sound recordist travelling Ireland in search of landscapes free from the noises of men. Along the way, he ponders human life its relationship with nature. It might be a documentary. It might be an experimental drama.
17. The Magdalene Sisters Peter Mullan, 2002 In the early 1960s, four young women – rape and incest survivor Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff), too-pretty Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone), unmarried mother Rose (Dorothy Duffy) and intellectually disabled Crispina (Eileen Walsh) – are forced into a Magdalene asylum. Hugely affecting historical drama.
16. Once John Carney, 2007 Conceived as a low-budget distraction between larger projects, Carney’s ambulatory musical - featuring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová – became a phenomenon for the ages. Won an Oscar for best song. Generated a hit stage show. Carney moved on to further success with Begin Again and the lovely Sing Street.
15. The Fading Light Ivan Kavanagh, 2009 If you are a carer – or just a human – your heart will break watching this criminally overlooked drama. Two sisters ponder the fate of their disabled brother (a tour de force performance from Patrick O’Donnell) as they tend to their dying mother.
14. Song of Granite Pat Collins, 2017 Collins confirmed his status among the most vital Irish artists of his generation with the docu-drama on the Irish folk singer Joe Heaney. The picture has the silvery resonance of myth, but it has much to say about the Irish experience abroad in the 20th century.
13. Mise Éire George Morrison, 1959 Beginning with a pre-photographic representation of Dermot McMurrough and Richard II before moving into newsreels, this wildly ambitious documentary powers through such historical milestones as Roger Casement’s execution. Featuring Countess Markievicz, Éamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Liam Cosgrove and, in the trenches of the first World War, the Connaught Rangers.
12. Brooklyn John Crowley, 2015 Irish film’s annus mirabilis came in 2016 when – thanks to Crowley’s take on a beloved Colm Tóibín novel, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and Ben Cleary’s short Stutterer – domestic films bossed the Oscar nominations. Saoirse Ronan confirmed her rising status as the Wexford girl torn between Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen.
11. The Lobster Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015 In this winningly absurd romantic comedy, a newly single Colin Farrell is transported to a hotel where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or he’ll be transformed into an animal of his choosing – specifically the crustacean of the title.
10. My Left Foot Jim Sheridan, 1989 It still seems so unlikely. Producer Noel Pearson and director Jim Sheridan imagined their study of disabled writer Christy Brown would play to a modest audience in Dublin. Boosted by a stirring performances from Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker, it ended up winning two Oscars and relaunching the domestic industry.
9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach, 2006 After seeing his friend executed by the Black and Tans, a young doctor (Cillian Murphy) joins his brother in the IRA until the Anglo-Irish Treaty comes between them. Deserving winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
8. Adam & Paul Lenny Abrahamson, 2004 After a long career in advertising, Lenny Abrahamson, collaborating with writer and actor Mark O’Halloran, made his feature debut with a study of two Dublin drug users that skirted Beckett and Buster Keaton while remaining utterly its own thing. The lead performances from O’Halloran and the late Tom Murphy are remarkable.
7. The Quiet Man John Ford, 1952 John Wayne, playing an Irish-American boxer from Pittsburgh, returns to his ancestral home and falls for firebrand Maureen O’Hara. Unaccustomed to local etiquette, he fails to understand the importance of her dowry. He’d want to catch on.
6. The Crying Game Neil Jordan, 1992 Jordan had already been up and down the sine wave – a hit with Mona Lisa, a bomb with High Spirits – when his peculiar psychological thriller broke through in 1992. Stephen Rea, the director’s muse, was typically muted as an IRA volunteer drifting towards one of cinema’s great twists.
5. Hunger Steve McQueen, 2008 It is hard to think of a more electrifying scene than the (McQueen and Enda Walsh scripted) encounter between Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender, never better) and Liam Cunningham’s visiting priest as they discuss the morality of the former’s hunger strike.
4. Man of Aran Robert J Flaherty, 1934 Controversy has long raged about Flaherty’s “fictional documentary” on life in the Aran Islands during the inter-war years. Scenes were fabricated. Family relationships are tweaked. But the film’s influence remains enormous. Despite its flexible attitude to the facts, Man of Aran translated truth to the emerging Irish nation (and the world).
3. Anne Devlin Pat Murphy, 1984 A sensible young woman (Brid Brennan, extraordinary) is caught up in Robert Emmet’s 1803 revolt. Made decades before the current conversation on the female gaze, Murphy’s painterly film is a landmark.
2. The Dead John Huston, 1987 Huston always had a romantic view of the old country. James Joyce doesn’t much invite cinematic adaptation. The director was so ill he could barely stand. Much of the film was shot in California. Yet everything came together like holy kismet for Huston’s take on the final story in Dubliners. Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann have never been stronger. Somehow the sense of place survived.
1. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick, 1975 An 18th-century Irish scoundrel (Ryan O’Neal) makes his way across Europe and wins the heart of a noblewoman (Marisa Berenson), only to succumb to “Misfortunes and Disasters” as the intertitle puts it. Cinematography that required Nasa tech. Stately composition. Bach, Vivaldi, and The Chieftains. Forget The Shining and 2001. This is Kubrick’s masterpiece.
Palm Springs Weekend is a 1963 Warner Bros.bedroom comedy film directed by Norman Taurog.[2] It has elements of the beach party genre (AIP's Beach Party became a smash hit in July, while Warner Bros. was still putting this film together[3]) and has been called "a sort of Westernized version of Where the Boys Are" by Billboard magazine.[4] It stars Troy Donahue, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad, Ty Hardin, and Connie Stevens.
Plot[edit]
A group of college students from Los Angeles travel to Palm Springs to spend the Easter weekend there. Student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) falls for Bunny Dixon (Stefanie Powers), the daughter of the overprotective Palm Springs police chief (Andrew Duggan). Munroe's roommate Biff Roberts (Jerry Van Dyke) and plain-jane Amanda North (Zeme North) try to seduce each other, while hampered by having to babysit an inquisitive young boy (the son of hotelier Naomi Yates, who has just met and is romancing the group's chaperone, coach Fred Campbell). Spoiled rich playboy Eric Dean (Robert Conrad) and Hollywood stuntman from Texas Doug Fortune (Ty Hardin) compete for the attentions of a pretty girl (Connie Stevens) from Beverly Hills. A wild auto chase between Eric and Doug, and serious crash ensue on the long drive home after an evening at a folk music club in Las Vegas, but all ends well.
Cast[edit]
Syndicated columnist, radio and television talk show host and personality Shirley Eder makes a cameo as herself in the record store scene; Mike Henry plays the parking valet at the Riviera Hotel; Dawn Wells and Linda Gray appear as featured extras in non-speaking roles. Connie Stevens, Robert Conrad, Tina Cole, and Troy Donahue all appeared in the 1959-63 TV series Hawaiian Eye.
Production notes[edit]
Development[edit]
Jack Warner was impressed by the success of Where the Boys Are (1960). He wanted to make a similar film about the influx of teenagers into Palm Springs during the Easter vacation break, using the large number of young actors they had under contract. The studio had the title, Palm Springs Weekend even before they had a script.
In June 1962, Warner gave the job of producing to Michael A. Hoey, who had never produced before, but had impressed Warner through his work as an editor at the studio over four years, most recently The Chapman Report. The studio signed Hoey to a contract as producer and Palm Springs Weekend was going to be his first movie.[1][5]
Earl Hamner Jnr, whose novel Spencer's Mountain had just been bought by Warners, was hired to write the screenplay. Hamner:
They gave the screenplay duties [on Spencer's Mountain] to someone else, and I think Mr. Warner thought that he owed me one. He called me one day and asked me what I thought of Palm Springs. I was just newly arrived from New York, and I told him that I'd never been there. He said, 'I want you to go there over Easter Weekend and poke around and see if you come back with a movie.' ... I suppose since he'd just done Spencer's Mountain, he trusted that I could write about young people.[6]
When Norman Taurog signed to direct, he felt the script needed some work, so the studio hired David Schwartz, who had just adapted Sex and the Single Girl. They did not like his work so another writer was hired, Danny Arnold, to do a weekly polish.[1]
There was some criticism of the script from Palm Springs councillors.[6]
Casting[edit]
The lead actors were all under contract to Warner Bros, apart from Stefanie Powers and Jerry Van Dyke.[7]Tuesday Weld was originally considered for the role of Gail, before Connie Stevens was cast. Troy Donahue was always considered for the part of Jim Munroe. Donahue says he refused to play the role – "nobody thought this was the kind of movie that would be particularly advantageous to our careers"[6] – but the studio put him on suspension. He ran out of money and agreed to make the film.
Ty Hardin's character was written especially for him as Hoey was impressed by his work in The Chapman Report. Steve Trilling of Warners wanted the part of Eric to be played by Edd Byrnes but Hoey went with Robert Conrad instead.[1] "Palm Springs Weekend was an incredible break for me", said Conrad later. "I saw an opportunity to do some real acting."[6]
Some reports say that Donahue's wife Suzanne Pleshette was considered to play Bunny, but Hoey says this was never the case as she was too mature; Stefanie Powers was borrowed from Columbia for the part.[1]
Shooting[edit]
Filming went from 10 February to 16 May 1963.[1] It was filmed on location in Palm Springs, as well as in the studio at Warners.[8][9]
Troy Donahue later recalled:
The best thing about the film was that it was being made in Palm Springs. And I was there to drink and get laid. I remember that a friend of mine and I started at opposite ends of town. Halfway through the movie, we crossed paths. I got everything he got going in his direction, and he got everything I got coming in mine. I mean, the picture was tame compared to the reality.[6]
Connie Stevens later said "By far, that film was one of the most fun times of my life."[6]
The two resorts seen in the film are the Irwin Schuman-designed Riviera Hotel (now the Riviera Palm Springs) on North Indian Canyon Drive; and the Desert Palms Inn – seen onscreen as "Las Casa Yates" – on Jones Road in Cathedral City. The two hotels served as location for much of the film, both the actual locations and their soundstage replicas.[6] Set design was by George Hopkins.
The car that Eric Dean drives is a silver 1963 Ford Thunderbird, while Doug Fortune's car is shown as a red 1957 Mercury Montclair. When Fortune's car is wrecked, however, he is pulled from a red 1954 Mercury Monterey.[10]
Cora Dixon's dialogue regarding Easter vacation ("I don't know how your father is going to stand all those teenagers – and the income tax deadline – all in the same week") appears to indicate that the film's setting is specifically April 1963, when Easter Sunday fell on April 14, the day before Tax Day.
Music[edit]
Frank Perkins composed the score for the film. Larry Kusik and Paul Evans wrote one song that appears in the finished film, "Live Young." It is sung over the opening credits by Troy Donahue, an instrumental version is heard during the party scene at Ruth Stewart's house.
The Modern Folk Quartet appear as themselves in the sequence at Jack's Casino and are shown singing two songs, "The Ox Driver's Song" and one unidentified song.
Ty Hardin sings an a cappella version of the traditional "The Yellow Rose of Texas", and sings with Jerry Van Dyke on Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon's standard, "Bye Bye Blackbird."
Musical excerpts from the film soundtrack were released as a long-playing vinyl recording in 1963.[11] The album was reissued on compact disc by Intrada Records in 2017.[12]
Release[edit]
The film was released to decent reviews. It was not a major success at the box office but made a profit for the studio.[1]
The movie had a long life on television and video. Earl Hamner later recalled, "When the phone rings around midnight, I know it's someone calling to tell me, 'Earl, Palm Springs Weekend is on'."[6]
Robert Conrad says his performance impressed Warners enough for them to keep him under contract for a number of years.[6] Troy Donahue later complained that the film was "really bad ... a beach movie set in the desert".[13]
A book of the same title by Marvin H. Albert was released by Dell Publishing at the same time.[14]
Home media[edit]
The DVD was released in 2009.[15] The DVD is part of the Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection, which also contains three other films starring Troy Donahue: Parrish (1961), Rome Adventure (1962) and Susan Slade (1961).[16]
Novelization[edit]
Slightly in advance of the film's release, as was the custom of the era, a paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell Books. The author was renowned crime and western novelist Marvin H. Albert, who also made something of a cottage industry out of movie tie-ins. He seems to have been the most prolific screenplay novelizer of the late '50s through mid '60s, and, during that time, the preeminent specialist at light comedy.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
^ abcdefgMichael A. Hoey, Elvis' Favorite Director: The Amazing 52-Film Career of Norman Taurog, Bear Manor Media 2013
^Library of Congress data: LCCN fi67-1299
^McParland, Stephen J. (1994). It's Party Time – A Musical Appreciation of the Beach Party Film Genre. USA: PTB Productions. ISBN .
^Billboard, Album Reviews, October 26, 1963.
^"Flora Robson Joins Bronston in 'Peking'". Los Angeles Times. June 22, 1962. p. C13.
^ abcdefghiWhispering Palms – Palm Springs Weekend: Palm Springs wanted nothing to do with "letting loose", thank you. Archive for Palm Springs Life, no date given. palmspringslife.comArchived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine accessed 17 August 2014
^Hopper, Hedda (Jan 29, 1963). "Comedian Excited About Fall TV Plans: 'Concert and Comedy' Show Will Be Therapy for Lewis". Los Angeles Times. p. D6.
^The New York Times review
^Gianoulis, Tina (2000). "Spring Break."St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Gale. Retrieved January 7, 2013 from HighBeam Research
^The Internet Movie Car Database Entry for Palm Springs Weekend
^Palm Springs Weekend: Music from the soundtrack. OCLC 6456877
^"Palm Springs Weekend".
^Rosenberg, Howard (28 July 1978). "Donahue Is Back, in the 'CHiPs': HAIR, HUMILITY Donahue Back, in the 'CHiPs'". Los Angeles Times. p. j3.
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The famous and famously vain men of Carly Simon’s ‘Boys in the Trees’
“Boys in the Trees,” Carly Simon’s new memoir, is largely about her passionate, tumultuous marriage to James Taylor. But before Simon wed Taylor in 1972, movie sixties girls dating boys california had a string of relationships with some of the decade’s most famous actors and musicians. She was conflicted about the dalliances, writing in her diary at the time that she hated to think of herself as promiscuous and feared she was “giving [her]self away too cheaply.”
And yet it was the ‘60s and ‘70s, a time of sexual liberation. “Did sex really have to be as formal as an evening at the opera? Couldn’t some encounters be as casual as a midnight swim?” she asks in her book.
“It was such a different time then,” Simon said in an interview at her home in Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend. Simon recalled not feeling “attractive enough” to have sex. Any time she slept with a man, she said, she felt she was merely a notch in their belt.
What she really wanted, she writes, was “that Golden Books image I would chase forever -- the apple-pie-cooling-on-the-windowsill, married little wife with her devoted husband and perfect children swinging from movie sixties girls dating boys california swing that was tied to movie sixties girls dating boys california old oak in the backyard.”
Eventually, she did settle down with Taylor. And when they got married, “there were a couple of bodies strewn in the wake,” she said with a smile. Here are some of the suitors she left behind:
SEAN CONNERY
Simon encountered the then-one-and-only James Bond while traveling back to New York from Dating a gypsy girl via boat. While boarding, she and her sister, Lucy, spotted the actor, movie sixties girls dating boys california, and soon decided to try to track him down. So the brassy Simon wrote him a note and had it sent to Connery in the presidential suite that she remembers going like this:
Dear Mr. Connery:
My name is Carly Simon and my sister’s name is Lucy. We are not your ordinary “fans.” We are traveling from London, where we were singing at the Rehearsal Room. We are both educated college girls, and our father was Richard Simon, who founded Simon & Schuster, the firm that published The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy. We understand that you are going to New York to do a Broadway production of the play based on that book. Would you come over to our very cozy little room and have a cup of tea or a preprandial cocktail?
Fifteen minutes later, dating app for fitness phone rang. It was Connery, who was midmassage, movie sixties girls dating boys california. He said he’d be down in 20 minutes.
Over the remaining days on the trip, Simon writes, Connery squired her and her sister about the boat. One night, after she’d caught him “gazing” at the sisters’ “long legs,” he proposed the three dance together and “make the most of this night.”
“‘Ah, girls, you’re so beautiful,’ he kept saying. ‘You’re so funny . come here, movie sixties girls dating boys california, you adorable college girls.’”
The sisters declined the suggestion of a “Simon Sisters Sandwich,” which Connery apparently took just fine. “He was extremely polite and not remotely aggressive,” Simon wrote.
MARVIN GAYE
Before her solo career took off, Simon worked as a secretary to a producer on a television movie sixties girls dating boys california show. When Marvin Gaye appeared on the program, Simon was sent to his room to see if he needed anything. She arrived to find him bare-chested and asked if she could get him anything.
“He replied that he wanted to see something, and would I mind sticking out my tongue?” Simon recalled. “Marvin lunged at my face, swept my tongue into his mouth, and began sucking on it. I extracted it without inflicting damage.”
MICK JAGGER
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger in London in May 1972.
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The instant Simon met the Rolling Stones frontman, she “found him sexy.” She felt movie sixties girls dating boys california around him, and wanted to attract his eyes.
“Naturally I flirted with Mick,” she wrote. “I mean, movie sixties girls dating boys california wouldn’t? If a woman didn’t flirt with Mick, it could only mean she had a cold sore or she’d been brushed off by him already.”
The attraction came to a climax during the recording of “You’re So Vain,” with Jagger singing background vocals. In the recording booth, Simon said, “electricity” vibrated between the pair.
“I wanted to touch his neck and he was looking at my lips,” she wrote. “The electricity was raw and hardly disguising its power. Having sex would have actually cooled things off.”
While Simon never says outright whether she and Jagger consummated their relationship, their sexual tension was so apparent to Jagger’s wife, Bianca, that she tried to break up Simon and James Taylor. The night before Simon and Taylor were set to wed, Jagger’s wife called Taylor and told him that he shouldn’t marry Simon because she and Jagger were having an affair.
“James said, ‘I’m sure that’s not true. Carly has told me about it and it’s movie sixties girls dating boys california what you think. I trust my wife-to-be. I trust Carly.”
Still, Simon’s flirtation with Jagger continued for years. He would occasionally send flowers to her hotel room while she was touring, signing the notes under pseudonyms.
“He knew I was married, so why didn’t I just call him and tell him to stop?” Simon wrote. “Any decent female in a Jane Austen novel would have done that. I suppose that both Mick and I were hanging onto something, and I wasn’t sure enough of myself to disengage from him completely.”
TERRENCE MALICK
Director Terrence Malick has always been somewhat of an enigma, never turning up for the premieres of his films or doing interviews to promote him. So here’s something you probably didn’t know about him: He had a short affair with Simon. The two met through a mutual friend, while Malick was in the midst of writing a story about Che Guevara for the New Yorker.
“I listened attentively as he talked with the kind of fervid enthusiasm for Che that I secretly hoped he might have an iota of for me, too,” said Simon. “Still, Terry and I weren’t the easiest fit.”
BOB RAFELSON
Another of Simon’s brief dalliances was with “Five Easy Pieces” director Bob Rafelson. She and the filmmaker were “off-and-on lovers” for a few weeks, but Rafelson was married. “He eventually told his brilliant, beautiful wife, Toby, about me during a ‘karma cleaning’ session,” Simon wrote.
JACK NICHOLSON
Jack Nicholson with his Oscar for “Terms of Endearment” at the 1984 Academy Awards.
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The morning after Jack Nicholson first slept at Simon’s apartment, she was surprised to wake up and find him in bed making a series of business calls.
“Jack’s phone voice--and his entire persona--was supremely assured,” she recalled. “At the same time, I couldn’t help but think he was trying to impress me with the caliber of the people he was calling. He tossed out nicknames left and right. Candice Bergen was ‘Bugs,’ Art Garfunkel was ‘Artie the Garf,’ and it took me a few seconds to realize that ‘Mike the Nick’ was Mike Nichols.”
Soon, he divulged that he was seeing another woman besides Simon who he was developing serious feelings for. Simon’s response: “I really like seeing you, and I’m glad you told me before I invited you to my wedding in which you were my groom.”
Nicholson called Simon a “funny one,” and that was that. While the singer’s ego was bruised, she’d only met Nicholson a handful of times and didn’t have a deep attraction to him. “[T]he end of my brief fling with Jack,” she wrote, “was akin to a promising summer rental that gets canceled at the last minute.”
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Simon and Kristofferson spent a “slam-dunk deranged month or so” together after meeting through L.A.’s music scene. She was astonished by his songwriting skills, particularly “I’ve Got to Have You.”
“How did he think of that utterly fragile combination of words?” she thought. “Kris, the man of soft lips and marble eyes sunken in snow? The simplest textures, the songs of a night bird? Every time I sing it, I think of him and what a wonder he is. I think he is magic, the bad boy who only shaves when he doesn’t have to go to church.”
Her opinion of the musician changed, however, during a plane ride they shared together. Simon was afraid of flying, and put her head in her lap as the aircraft took off. Kristofferson wrapped the New York Times around his head “like a tent” to avoid having “anything to do with the possibly sick or frightened woman he had on his hands.”
CAT STEVENS
One of Simon’s first big gigs was opening for Cat Stevens at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Shortly after that show, back in New York, Simon invited the singer over to her apartment for a date. He was late, and she started to get upset. So she pulled out her guitar and “determinedly” penned “Anticipation,” which would go on to become one of her biggest hits.
Stevens eventually arrived, and Simon got over her anger. The two became lovers.
“It feels too private to speak of our two bodies together, movie sixties girls dating boys california, and too tender and spiritual to actually refer to it as sex,” she wrote of their encounters. “I loved to watch him as he slept, as he looked at the sky, or a piece of art. He rarely asked questions. When he did, it was in a wonderfully scratchy bass voice that sounded like an old man of the woods telling a tale of those who had passed by his tree hundreds of online dating for hikers ago.”
WARREN BEATTY
Yes, Simon confirms, Warren Beatty is one of the men “You’re So Vain” is about. (It’s also about two other men, whom she still won’t identify.)
But while he may have been arrogant, Simon fell hard for the “Bonnie and Clyde” star. From the moment they met backstage at the Troubadour, Beatty made his interest in Simon clear. He walked up to her, got close to her face, and looked down her shirt.
“He.looked down at my breasts, braless and curved bravely in an insinuating shape under my chamois shirt,” she wrote. “He said: ‘Can I see you?’”
She found him “irresistible” – “a glorious specimen of man.” They started sleeping together; he always called her the next day. Even though he was a womanizer, she said, he always remembered small details about her family or childhood that she’d share with him. He called her thighs “poems.”
“We made love like in a movie,” she wrote. “However, there were real sensations, for Warren was such a professional, movie sixties girls dating boys california, the pressure points he knew about stirred a tremor in me, which meant that I left my head for a while, and all of a sudden we weren’t in the movie anymore.”
Simon was so taken with Beatty that she divulged stories about him to her therapist. One session, while talking about a 100% free interracial dating evening she’d spent with Beatty, her shrink looked stunned.
“You are not the first patient of the day,” the therapist revealed, “who spent the night with Warren Beatty last night.”
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Love Hard (2021)
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Holiday in the Wild (2019)
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
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Holiday Rush (2019)
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Dogfight (film)
1991 film directed by Nancy Savoca
Dogfight is a 1991 coming-of-age drama set in San Francisco, California, during the 1960s and directed by Nancy Savoca.[2] The film explores the love between an 18-year-old Marine, Lance Corporal Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix) on his way to Vietnam, and a young woman, Rose Fenny (Lili Taylor).
Plot[edit]
The first portion of the film is set on November 21, 1963 (the day before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated). Birdlace and three of his Marine buddies have arrived brothahassan interracial dating San Francisco for twenty-four hours, before shipping off to Okinawa, and are planning on attending a "dogfight" (a party where Marines compete to bring the ugliest date, unbeknownst to the girls they bring) later that evening. They separate into the city to attempt to find dates. After a few women reject his advances, Birdlace ducks into a coffee shop, where he encounters Rose, a waitress, on her break, practicing her guitar. She is not particularly "ugly", but rather plain, shy and awkward. Birdlace attempts to charm her, complimenting her on her guitar playing, and inviting her to a party. She movie sixties girls dating boys california suspicious of his motives, but decides to accept his invitation.
While walking to the bar where the party is to be held, Birdlace begins to have second thoughts about playing such a cruel trick on Rose after realizing she's not ugly enough hebrew roots dating sites compete, and attempts to talk her out of going in. However they encounter one of Birdlace's buddies and his "date" in front of the bar, and so he has no choice but to proceed with Rose into the dogfight. Birdlace proceeds to get drunk, presumably feeling guilty. Shortly after, Rose convinces Birdlace to dance with her, though at first he resists because he knows that's where the dates get judged. The alcohol and dancing eventually make Rose feel dizzy, and she rushes off and movie sixties girls dating boys california up getting sick in the rest room. Rose does not win the dogfight; Marcie, the date of Birdlace's friend Berzin, is the winner. In the ladies' room, it is revealed that Marcie is actually a prostitute whom Berzin has hired (which is a violation of the rules of the dogfight) and clues Rose in to the true nature of the party. Rose is devastated, tears into Birdlace, and then storms off. Birdlace immediately regrets having treated Rose so cruelly, and chases after her. He convinces her to let him buy her dinner, in an attempt to make it up to her.
After dinner, the two walk to a club where Rose hopes to perform soon, and then to an arcade. Birdlace is surprised to find himself enjoying spending time with Rose, so much so that he forgets that he was to have met up with his three buddies at a tattoo parlor where they were to get matching tattoos to solidify their friendship. Rose tells Birdlace about her dream to become a folk singer, and he reveals to her that he will be shipping off to Okinawa the following day, and from there on to "a little country called Vietnam," he hopes. She offers to write to him, and asks if he will write back. Birdlace walks Rose home, and they share an awkward moment on her doorstep, before she hesitantly invites him in. They attempt to talk, but end up engaged in a self-conscious yet endearing sexual encounter.
As he is leaving at dawn, Rose gives him her address and asks him to write, movie sixties girls dating boys california. Birdlace meets up with his buddies, where they board their bus. Birdlace makes up a story that he did not show up because he spent the night with the beautiful wife of an officer. Berzin later shares with Birdlace that he saw him with Rose; Birdlace counters that he is aware that Berzin's "date", Marcie, was actually a prostitute. They agree to keep one-another's secrets, as Birdlace tears up Rose's address and throws it out the window of the bus.
Rose is then shown with her mother, weeping and watching coverage of President Kennedy's assassination on TV. The film then cuts to 1966, where Birdlace and his three friends are shown at Chu Lai, South Vietnam. They are playing cards and trying to pass time, when they are suddenly mortared. The scene descends to chaos. Birdlace is wounded in the leg, Berzin and Oakie drag him away and tell him that Benjamin is dead, then another mortar round hits.
Birdlace is then shown getting off of a Greyhound bus in San Francisco in 1967. Discharged from the Marines, he is walking with a limp, and it is suggested that his three friends were all killed in combat, movie sixties girls dating boys california. He is taken aback by how much things have changed since he was last there, with hippies and flower children everywhere. He walks to the neighborhood where Rose's coffee shop is, and goes to a bar across the street to have a drink. The bartender tells him that Rose's mother has turned the coffee shop over to Rose. He then makes his way across the street and into the coffee shop. Rose, not having heard from him in three years, is surprised to see him, and can only say "hi". She walks over to him and they embrace as the film ends.
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Release[edit]
The premiere of Dogfight was a screening at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado on August 30, 1991 with a New York premiere on September 13, 1991. It also had an opening in Los Angeles on September 27, 1991.[3] It was released in the United States on October 4, 1991 by Warner Bros.[4]
Reception[edit]
The film was widely praised by critics, and has a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[5] It got a mixed review from Peter Travers, who wrote in Rolling Stone that "Dogfight doesn’t sum up an era; it merely romanticizes it. What could have been an incisive movie about alienation deteriorates into a conventional romance."[6]Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "'Dogfight' is two characters in search of a film. And very fine characters they happen to be, as winsome a pair of young people as anyone would ever want to meet. Which makes it all the more a wonder that their on-screen adventures can’t seem to go anywhere at all."[7]Roger Ebert remarked that the film "isn't a love story so much as a story about how a young woman helps a confused teenage boy to discover his own better nature. The fact that his discoveries take place on the night before he ships out to fight the war in Vietnam only makes the story more poignant."[8]Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote movie sixties girls dating boys california "Dogfight., movie sixties girls dating boys california. seems to have no clear idea of what these ordinary people are really like. The film wants to be honest (and in its cruelties, it is), but the operative sensibility is that of a sitcom world. The characters aren't necessarily idealized, but they are flat and uninteresting. The material is lugubrious. The only seemingly spontaneous moment comes at the very end, which is too late."[9] Dustin Putman referred to the film as "a virtually unknown gem" and "one of the sweetest, most touching romances of the decade."[10]
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Soundtrack[edit]
The film's soundtrack featured a number of prominent 1960s artists, movie sixties girls dating boys california, including John Fahey, Bob Dylan, movie sixties girls dating boys california, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds.
Musical adaptation[edit]
Main article: Dogfight (musical)
In June 2012, movie sixties girls dating boys california, Second Stage Theatre debuted the musical adaptation.[12] The show, which features music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan, was directed by Joe Mantello and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. It starred Lindsay Mendez as Rose and Derek Klena as Eddie, movie sixties girls dating boys california. The cast also included Nick Blaemire, Annaleigh Ashford, Steven Booth, Becca Ayers, Adam Halpin, Dierdre Friel, F. Michael Haynie, James Moye and Josh Segarra. David Zinn designed sets and costumes and Paul Gallo designed the lights, movie sixties girls dating boys california. The production opened on July 16, 2012, after previews from June 27, and concluded its limited run on August 19. The show received rave reviews for its young writers and for leading lady Lindsay Mendez's tour de force performance.[13]
Dogfight earned two 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Choreographer (Christopher Gattelli).[14] It was nominated for five 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards: Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway), Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Lindsay Mendez), and Outstanding Lighting Design (Paul Gallo).[15] The show was also nominated for two 2013 Drama League Awards for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical and Distinguished Performance (Lindsay Mendez),[16] as well as the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Lindsay Mendez).[17]
The original cast recording was released on April 30, 2013.[18]
In Movie sixties girls dating boys california 2014, the musical had its European premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in London, directed by Matt Ryan.
References[edit]
^"Dogfight (1991)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
^Willman, Chris (1993-10-01). "It Was a Real 'Dogfight' to Get Nancy Savoca's Vision on Screen : Movies: The director elicits macho performances in her latest film by learning to get around movie sixties girls dating boys california feminist and feminine sensibilities. - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Movie sixties girls dating boys california 2012-06-27.
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