Quote of the day:
This quote comes from the late Pauline Kael, the birdlike film critic whose often radically biting reviews drew ire and adulation from many. I’ve been poring over her collection of short film reviews “5001 Nights at the Movies,” and some of them are incredibly funny to me. This is my favorite one - in her review of TROG, Joan Crawford’s last film from 1970, Kael writes:
“Joan Crawford plays Stella Dallas with an ape instead of a baby girl.”
That’s the best one line movie description I’ve ever read, even if I’m the only person my age who would get it. (Stella Dallas is a super tearjerker with Barbara Stanwyck where she’s a low class woman who gives up her daughter so she can have a better life living with her father) I’m going to try to get that good with my short reviews.
Trog is an absurdly awful cheesy film where Joan Crawford finds a trogolodyte, which is a sort of prehistoric monster man and tries to nurture it by having it over for a Pepsi.
But there’s some simple minded folk who are scared of Trog and want to kill it. But Joan says “No. It’s Pepsi Time!” She takes a break from beating children and invites one over for a Pepsi with Trog.
Okay that’s not exactly the plot of the movie, and I think those pictures are from some sort of lame Pepsi ad that came out when the movie did. Joan was the head of Pepsi after all.
Anyway, I’m glad this blog isn’t turning out to be too gay.