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Day 21…this is the time for a second run of my 21st speaktherights.com post<\/h1>\n

And the Oscar goes to\u2026<\/a><\/h1>\n
Danny Johnson<\/a><\/span>Leave a comment<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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While I made mention of a couple of movies recently, I can honestly say that most of my movie watching days are behind me. \u00a0I am not sure why? \u00a0 I have never liked horror movies. \u00a0I thought Freddie Kruger was a sissy. \u00a0I don\u2019t like movies where folks are shooting at one another and killing each other. \u00a0That is no fun. \u00a0I like fun. \u00a0But I don\u2019t like fun that is nasty and raunchy and stupid. \u00a0Seems like there is a great deal of that out there too.<\/p>\n

What are my favorite movies?<\/p>\n

\u201cBull Durham\u201d. \u00a0Not the most wholesome of programs, but a funny one. \u00a0This is a great story about one of my favorite pastimes\u2026minor league baseball. \u00a0Want some fun? \u00a0Go watch the Asheville Tourists. \u00a0That is the team Crash Davis sign on with at the end of the movie. \u00a0My dear wife, Carrie, and I saw a no-hitter thrown there. \u00a0It was in June of 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prince of Tides\u201d. \u00a0I am a romantic at heart. \u00a0This Pat Conroy adaptation gets it right. \u00a0Carrie and I were at a dinner party for Pat once and he is one of the most interesting people you could ever run into. \u00a0 Nick Nolte and Barbara Streisand make a great on-screen romance. \u00a0The movie is also partially shot in Charleston, SC and we love the place. \u00a0The music? \u00a0The soundtrack is on my IPOD.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d. \u00a0I still like to watch it all these years on. \u00a0I love the Scarecrow. \u00a0I think the Tin Man is a weenie. \u00a0The Lion is painful to watch at times. \u00a0Overall, this is as classic as you will find.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d. \u00a0I\u2019d sit and watch this just to listen to the guy narrating the story. \u00a0He really sounds like he was there. \u00a0The colors and the sets and the dude that is Charlton Heston. The hours\u2026.many of them for you that know it\u2026fly right by.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Homecoming\u201d. \u00a0The original movie that started the saga of Virginia\u2019s Walton family in the Blue Ridge Mountains. \u00a0Carrie and I watch this movie every Christmas season. \u00a0What I would have given to of had a chance to take a seat on one of those benches around the Walton table at supper time. \u00a0Those were some great characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace Cowboys\u201d. \u00a0We lost James Garner a week or so back. \u00a0Jim Rockford does not disappoint as \u201cTank\u201d in this one. \u00a0Space Shuttles have always fascinated me. \u00a0Guess that is over. \u00a0But\u2026this movie is not. \u00a0It shows up on television now and again and gives me a reason beside football season to pay for my DIRECTV. \u00a0The banter between Clint Eastwood\u2019s character and Tommy Lee Jones\u2019 character is infectious.<\/p>\n

\u201cTEACHERS\u201d. \u00a0Another Nick Nolte gem. \u00a0 He plays a bit of a rounder with a heart of gold. \u00a0He is all about helping the kids in a school that is going through some political upheaval. \u00a0Gee\u2026that never really happens. \u00a0The music? \u00a0If you can find the soundtrack, let me know if it costs less than 50 bucks. \u00a0It is very elusive for some reason. \u00a0I had the cassette when it came out.<\/p>\n

\u201cMIRACLE\u201d. \u00a0The hockey movie. \u00a0I really do like it. \u00a0I wasn\u2019t just saying that on another post. \u00a0This is my favorite sports story of all time. \u00a0In large part, I love it because I remember it. \u00a0To this day if I hear Al Michaels asking us if we believe in miracles, I get goosebumps.<\/p>\n

\u201cStand by Me\u201d. \u00a0It clocks in at about 90 minutes and I wish all movies could do that. \u00a0Coming of age tales have potential to stay with you. \u00a0I have not forgotten this one. \u00a0Though it was set in a time before I remember and a place I have never been, there is plenty there I am familiar with. Verno said it best, \u201cThis is a really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren of a Lesser God\u201d. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0This filmed got hosed at the Oscars. \u00a0It was the best picture of 1986. \u00a0Platoon<\/em> was not\u2026too much shooting and killing and hamburger meat flying around. \u00a0I have never seen a picture before or since that appealed to me as visually as this film does. \u00a0As dark (literally) as some of the scenes are, they are intrinsically brightened by the optimism they hold. \u00a0Marlee Matlin won best actress\u2026 I think. \u00a0William Hurt should have won one too. \u00a0One of the greatest love stories ever made.<\/p>\n

\"20130702_200414\"<\/a>Fun at a minor league baseball game where they filmed “A League of Their Own”.<\/p>\n

Nick Nolte\u2019s characters usually spoke the rights.<\/p>\n

Danny Johnson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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