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(Okay, first I like to protest and donate to abortion funds, but when the anger and sadness have run their course, I need to watch something to cool off.)

Neo-noir II: ‘This Gun for Hire’ and ‘Roman Holiday’ in ‘L.A.It’s been a very bad, no-good, horrible, rotten, 24 hours, and I don’t know about you, but when I’m seething over the loss of my constitutional right to reproductive freedom, I like to watch an old rom-com.

'The Terrance and Phillip Show' in 'South Park'.

'Parachute Jumper,' 'Ex-Lady' and 'Sadie McKee' in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'.

'Sexual Freedom in Denmark' or 'Language of Love' in 'Taxi Driver'.

'See You Next Wednesday' and 'The Muppets Show' in 'An American Werewolf in London'.

'Walking My Baby Back Home' in 'Columbo'.

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As of last week it was streaming for free on Verizon Fios On Demand.)

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In fact, I recommend watching the whole movie if you haven’t seen it recently. It doesn’t have any movie-watching stuff, but it’s pretty good. Because of technical difficulties, I was unable to trim the rest of the clip. (The clip below starts with the movie-on-movie scene, which ends at about the 2:30 mark. And Hanks and Ryan are the impossibly good-looking (though not tanned) leads, whose love has a supernatural sway over the actions and intentions of mere mortals. Ryan’s a reporter, like Rosalind Russell in Friday and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe. Bill Pullman plays the Ralph Bellamy role–the well-meaning but terminally dull fiancee Walter. (In a piece of dialogue that apparently was cut from the shooting script, a detective Annie has hired to stalk Sam says she reminds him of “Glenn Close in that movie,” i.e., Fatal Attraction.)Įphron has movies on her mind too: Sleepless is a love letter not so much to the ’50s women’s picture weepy An Affair to Remember as to the classic screwball comedies of the ’30s and early ’40s, the best of which, like Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, featured Grant. Her husband, Greg (Victor Garber) teams up with Sam for a very funny response. In a clever conceit, all females in this film are obsessed with An Affair to Remember, including an Empire State Building Security guard’s wife and Sam’s sister, Suzy (Rita Wilson), who can’t even summarize the plot without breaking into tears.

After some portentous dialogue between the impossibly handsome and tanned Grant and Deborah Kerr, Annie laments, “Those were the days when people knew how to be in love….

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The most movie-obsessed character, by far, is Annie (Meg Ryan), whom we see in an early scene watching An Affair To Remember (1957), starring the aforementioned Grant, on TV with her best friend, Becky (Rosie O’Donnell). Jonah tells him to be careful: “In movies, women are always scratching up the man’s back and screaming.”Īll told, the words “movie” or “movies” appear fifteen times in Ephron’s screenplay. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, asks whether Sam will have sex with the swatch-woman Sam, in a rookie move, says yes. Sam (Tom Hanks), a recently widowed architect, thinks about inviting a potential date over to look at swatches, but then muses that Cary Grant wouldn’t be caught dead looking at swatches with a woman. The characters habitually measure their own lives against what they’ve seen onscreen. Rosie O’Donell and Meg Ryan bonding over “An Affair to Remember”Īll movies are about movies, but Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle (1993) is about movies more than most.