Some Of My Many Favorite Things (Entertainment Related or Lack Thereof)

-A Word Before Reading-

None of you dear readers have to be familiar with what I am talking about in order to reply to this blog entry 🙂 In fact, you could all talk to me about things (cinema, television etc.) that make you happy and we can all reply back and forth to each other in the comment section 🙂

-Introduction-

As all of my dear readers can gather by the title of this link, today, I will be linking you all to some of many things that give me joy, whether it be during the Christmas season or otherwise 🙂 So, without further ado, here is the first one below 🙂

-Jennifer Coolidge-

Yes, she played Stiffler’s Mom in the American Pie movies, but Jennifer Coolidge has always been reliable in every role she has ever played 🙂 She has won for Supporting Actress in Television three times (one Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmys) for her role as the wealthy Tanya McQuoid on the darkly comedic HBO anthology series The White Lotus.

Click here to watch her 2023 Golden Globe speech

Click here to watch her 2022 Primetime Emmy speech

Click here to watch her 2023 Primetime Emmy speech

Click here and here to watch some of her character’s best moments

Any of my dear readers familiar with all of those Discover Card commercials you all see on television? 🙂

Click here to watch a few of them

Speaking of that, actress/comedian Chloe Fineman spoofed Coolidge’s persona with (I believe) two hilarious SNL (Saturday Night Live) sketches

Click here to watch this 2022 one

Click here to watch this one from two months ago

-Pamela Anderson: The Cinephile-

As much as I love Pamela Anderson’s screen image, that does not compare to the awesomeness of who Pamela Anderson really is behind it. Recently, she has been earning raves for her dramatic lead performance in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, which garnered her a recent Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. This brings us to a recent video of her getting the luxury of going into the Criterion Closet to pick some Blu-Ray/DVD’s for herself. It is here that Anderson is at her coolest. She comes off as a cinephile not only with her love of the films she talks about, but also the directors behind them. Late great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gets a shout-out in the video 🙂 How awesome is that among the others she mentions 🙂

Click here to watch her recent visit to the Criterion Closet

-Danny Devito’s Jersey MIke’s Commercials-

They just bring a smile to my face 🙂

Click here to watch them all

-The Clovers: One Mint Julep

Yes, Todd Haynes 2015 masterpiece Carol is what got me addicted to The Clovers 1952 R&B song One Mint Julep :)The song is just so tuneful to me 🙂

Click here to listen to it

Click here to watch the scene that the aforementioned song plays in the film

Let me conclude this blog entry with two questions for my dear readers below:

What are some of your many favorite things (Entertainment Related or Lack Thereof?

What links interested you the most? If all, some or none of them did, that is perfectly fine too?

My Favorite Andrea Arnold Films (2024 Edition)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

  1. Fish Tank (2009)
  2. American Honey (2016)
  3. Cow (2021)
    (Documentary)
  4. Wuthering Heights (2011)
  5. Red Road (2006)
  6. Wasp (2003)
    (Short)
  7. Dog (2001)
    (Short)
  8. Milk (1998)
    (Short)
  9. Big Little Lies – Season 2 (2019)
    Episode: What Have They Done?
    Episode: Tell-Tale Hearts
    Episode: The End of the World
    Episode: She Knows
    Episode: Kill Me
    Episode: The Bad Mother
    Episode: I Want to Know
    (Cable/Television)
  10. Transparent – Season 3 (2016)
    Episode: If I Were a Bell
    (Streaming/Television)
  11. Transparent – Season 2 (2015)
    Episode: Oscillate
    Episode: Grey Green Brown & Copper
    (Streaming/Television)
  12. Transparent – Season 4 (2017)
    Episode: Desert Eagle
    (Streaming/Television)
  13. I Love Dick – Season 1 (2017)
    Episode: Scenes from a Marriage
    Episode: Ilinx
    Episode: The Barter Economy
    Episode: Cowboys and Nomads
    (Streaming/Television)

My Favorite Gregg Araki Films (2024 Edition)

Some of these films I have seen on old vhs tapes and online. I can’t seem to find and watch The Long Weekend (O’ Despair) anywhere.

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

  1. Nowhere (1997)
  2. The Doom Generation (1995)
  3. Totally F***ed Up (1993)
  4. The Living End (1992)
  5. Now Apocalypse (2019)
    (Cable/Television)
    (No relation to Apocalypse Now)
  6. This Is How the World Ends (2000)
    (Cable/Television)
  7. Mysterious Skin (2004)
  8. Smiley Face (2007)
  9. Splendor (1999)
  10. Kaboom (2010)
  11. White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
  12. American Crime – Season 2 (2016)
    Season Two: Episode Three
    (Television)
  13. 13 Reasons Why – Season 1 (2017)
    Episode: Tape 4, Side A
    Episode: Tape 4, Side B
    (Streaming/Television)
  14. Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
    Episode: Lionel
    (Streaming/Television)
  15. Greenleaf – Season 1 (2016)
    Episode: Men Like Trees Walking
    (Cable/Television)
  16. Red Oaks – Season 2 (2016)
    Episode: Lost and Found
    Episode: The Wedding
    (Streaming/Television)
  17. American Gigolo – Season 1 (2022)
    Episode: Nothing Is Real But the Girl
    (Cable/Television)
  18. Heathers – Season 1 (2018)
    Episode: Hot Probs
    Episode: Do I Look Like Mother Teresa?
    (Cable/Television)
  19. Riverdale – Season 2 (2018)
    Episode: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler
    (Television)
  20. 13 Reasons Why – Season 2 (2018)
    Episode: The First Polaroid
    Episode: Two Girls Kissing
    (Streaming/Television)
  21. Here Now (2015)
    (Short)
  22. Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)