White Nights
This entry was posted on 4/23/2007 9:08 PM and is filed under Movies.
I love netflix.
Under what other circumstances but that it showed up in my mailbox like magic, would I rewatch a movie that came out twenty two years ago?
When I saw White Nights in a theater, back in 1985, I LOVED IT. This was so long ago that video tapes were expensive ( $80.00! Because you could actually own a movie!) and I remember telling someone that this movie was so good that I would buy it when it came out on video.
I never did buy it.
I rented it in the early 90's and with the cold war over and the Soviets kaput, I remember watching it and thinking "Ham and Cheese!"
Now, I'm just glad that someone once had the wisdom to make a movie, any movie, that featured Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancing.
Who cares whether the spy/drama/action/adventure was silly? Who cares that the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore? The dance numbers are worth every second of the show, both Hines and Baryshnikov separately and especially when they dance together.
It doesn't hurt that Misha, in his prime, is one of the top ten hotties of all time.
Even now, I'm told the guy can stop traffic.
A few years ago, my sister was watching pedestrians while waiting for a green light at 50th and France and caught herself thinking "Wow, is that guy good looking!" when the guy looked right at her and she realized it was Baryshnikov. He may have been in town visiting his daughter, whose Mom lived in Stillwater at the time.
Hmmm...who else is top ten of all time?
For me I think it would include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paul McCartney, Gene Kelly, Mel Gibson, Paul Newman, Pierce Brosnan, George Strait, John Hemp, Gus Melonis and Jay Pivec.
That's not really fair, the last three guys aren't famous. John was the son of my Dad's best friend and Gus was a friend of ours in Montana, and it's sort of cheating to include my husband, but take my word for it: top ten of all time.
Still, I'll replace them with Peter O'toole, Clark Gable and Johnny Depp.
Dang, I didn't leave room for Omar Sharif. Laurence of Arabia might be the greatest chick flick of all time.
With Butch Cassidy and the Sudance kid a close second.
No! Tequila Sunrise! Kurt Russell and Mel Gibson! That's the greatest chick flick of all time.
Great. Now I want to watch Tunguska, the X-files episode where Mulder and Krycek get thrown in a Russian gulag toghether. The greatest moment in television history is all, that's what!
Well, this is just what I needed after watching Mrs. Henderson presenting British babes flashing their mams for the war effort.
