Home Magazine is another magazine in which I got a free subscription. And you can too, anyone can! You don't have to win it!! Why pay for a magazine subscription for popular magazines, when you can receive one free? Go here. There are hundreds featured. Just sign up. That's it! I signed up for several. There is no limit. I did, however give them my email address that I reserve for junk mail. That way I do not clog my mailbox with spam in the case they sell your email address. You can find free email addresses online. When I am through reading, I will donate to the library or thrift store.
Footloose- I thought Willard (Chris Penn) was the sweetest thing, wanting to learn to dance all for his woman. At the end, with the prom scene has me off my couch dancing every time. 
Grease- The original. I so wanted to be Sandy (both good and bad girl), if not her then Patty Simcox. I loved that movie. Much of my childhood revolved around that movie. I remember Mrs. Morave dropping me, Michelle, and Debby off at the theater. We would watch it twice. We paid once then ducked in our seats for a second viewing, as instructed my Mrs Morave who was a nurse and worked all night and thus would take us to the movie during the day to occupy us. For real, I counted how many times I saw it, at the theater alone...40 something. Yes. I owe the Theater that was once at Brookwood Mall some cash.
The Wizard of Oz- This came on annually around Halloween. I couldn't wait. One year I was devastated because it came on Halloween night and I didn't get to watch it. This was before the days of VCR's. If you missed, you had to wait a whole year before it came on again. What did that movie teach me? Really, "There's no place like home!"
Stand by Me-The tag lone said it all: For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life. But for everyone, it's the time that memories are made of....This was a salty little movie for what was chalked up as a kids movie. But there were some deep lessons to be learned her. Like losing someone young, before their time, to stand up for yourself, and that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow-or even a good life. What a great movie. Has anyone seen Jerry O'Connell these days? He was the kid that was bullied in the movie for his weight. Today he is still a cutey, albeit much thinner, and married to another cutey, super model Rebecca Romaine.
Coal Miner's Daughter- This is probably my favorite movie of all time. I can still recite it word for word. And most of you know my obsession with Loretta Lynn, thanks to the Roaming Southerner. Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones were exceptionally great in this cult hit. The movie had the best lines in it of any movie I have ever seen:
The Goonies- A movie about a band of kids from the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon, hoping to save their homes from demolition, go on an adventure to find the buried treasure of One-Eyed Willy, a legendary pirate. I loved this movie because it was creative. It craftily had everything in it a kid would want to see or fantasize about: Pirates, scary monsters, genius inventions, kidnappers, treasures, young love, hide and seek. It was great. And many of the scenes were filmed a place that I have been, Haystack Rock. I went when I lived in Portland, Oregon. I recall sea lions covering that rock. I love the part where Chunk befriends Sloth. How touching!
The Outsiders_for a young girl, it was eye candy. It had almost all of the hot up and coming stars. There were fist fights, and attempts to save a girls honor. How romantic. Yes, I did say the Outsiders. For a girl like me, it was all I could ask for and more. Oh, how I cried when "Dally got knocked off my the fuzz".
Airplane-It was a spin off movie that was inspired by and includes various lines of dialogue and references to the 1957 Zero Hour. Wikepedia describes the plot: When the crew of a commercial airliner suffer food poisoning after eating their in-flight meals, it falls to Ted Striker (Robert Hays), an ex-fighter pilot, to conquer his fear of flying and land the airplane. Adding to the challenge is the fact that his ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julie Hagerty) is a flight attendant on the aircraft. Nielsen portrays a doctor called to help the sick passengers.
Rocky 1-3- LOOOVVVVEEEDDDD this movie. Great musical scores and who couldn't love at the Sly in this one. "Aide-Ri-Annnn!" Didn't you cry when Mickey died?
Jaws- It scared me outta the water as it did most Americans. Even today, when I go in to the ocean, which I love so dearly and passionately, I do confess to hear the Jaws music playing in my head. Clearly I need therapy. But I will bet that today, with the recent shark attacks and media frenzy, it goes through many people's head. Why did Roy Snider have to pass? I know he would know how to control this frenzy.
The Breakfast Club- If you missed this movie, clearly you didn't grow up in the 80's. Another classic (as all are on this list). This one was about five teenagers (each representing a different clique in high school) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes. 
Urban Cowboy- This was another movie that I could recite word for word. And it was cool, remember those little license plates of love in the back of that truck window. What Sissy and Bud had was real love, forget that she was a horrible housekeeper, that he slept with someone else to make her jealous, that she rode the mechanical bull to make him jealous...Sissy tries to go to bed with Wes, but stops before doing anything....it all came together at the end when they danced in the dance competition and Sissy and Bud made up and that plate went back up in the truck window. Every time I hear Johnny Lee's Lookin' for love and Mickey Gilley's Stand By Me, I can't help but think of Sissy and Bud and their luvvv.
Smokey and the Bandit- "Taking cover in the Rocking Chair, got a smokey on my tail"..... CB's were cool then. I remember when my mother got one and my friends and I would most certainly irritate many a trucker with the slang, "Breaker, breaker one nine? Come back?" It was the days when Burt Reynolds was cool-a real man (not weird and had a fake face as he does today), Sally Field was adorable, and Jerry Reed was the best (and still is, Big Daddy and I are H-U-G-E fans!!!) 
After a restless night of torrential rain and thunderstorms, we awoke to go and watch J Smooth's football game only to get rained on some more. It was, though, Smooths very first football game on a team and he couldn't wait to play. In fact, I am sure it was every man's football dream sequence with mud and huge puddles on the field, playing hard, and running every which way. Smooths team ended up loosing, but he didn't know the difference...and I don't think he cared. He was wet and muddy and loved every minute of it.
Today, Big Daddy and I watched the film, A Knight's Tale with our little resident knight/pirate J Smooth (see post Little Tyson, December 30, 2007). The film combines action, comedy, and romance, and is notable for its deliberate use of anachronisms, such as the use of classic rock songs like Queen's "We Will Rock You", War's "Low Rider", David Bowie's "Golden Years", Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" and AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long", (and many others) in the soundtrack of a film that notionally takes place during the Middle Ages. Set in late medieval Europe, the plot centers on a young peasant squire called William Thatcher, played by Heath Ledger, who, after the death of his knight, Sir Ector, joins the jousting circuit, an act forbidden to those not of noble birth. Thatcher travels around Europe under the pseudonym of Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein, along with two fellow squires, Wat and Roland (ALan Tudyk and Mark Addy); his well-spoken herald); and his armourer, Kate the Farrier. Along the way, he falls in love with a noble young lady, Jocelyn and develops a rivalry with Count Adhemar of Anjou.
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