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I seem to have stumped y'all

A few weeks ago, I grabbed a movie meme. The idea was to pick 15 of your favorite movies and post a quote from each one. As readers identified the quotes, you were supposed to cross them off.

But y'all only got six of the 15. As I haven't had a comment on the post in question for more than a week, I figure it's safe to reveal the answers. I guess I've got an odd taste in movies, or at least I picked ones that aren't familiar even to my legion of readers. So here we go:

1. You know what I hate the most about being a public figure? ...The public. (Carol Bensen, Peter's Friends)
2. I love inscriptions on flyleafs and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned and reading passages someone long-gone has called my attention to. (Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road)
3. I am upset, I am uptight, I am up to my nipples in Southern Comfort, and you're trying to take advantage of me. (Arnold Beckoff, Torch Song Trilogy)
4. I reckon the folks'd be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would. (Samson Posey, The Dirty Dozen)
5. You must also know that I shall be with you every day that is granted to me from now on. Every evening I shall sit down to dine with you. Not with my body, which is of no importance, but with my soul. Because this evening I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible. (Lorens Lowenhielm, Babette's Feast)
6. This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat. (Joe, The Princess Diaries)
7. I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed. (Fezzik, The Princess Bride)
8. A girl? So I can't play. But then again, I am black, so maybe I can. You're problem's gonna be deciding which one of your narrow-minded stereotypes is gonna kick your lily-white ass. (Julie Taylor, Latter Days)
9. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled. (Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Lion in Winter)
10. Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks? (Uncle Willie, The Philadelphia Story)
11. What is it with this man? Did I kill a relative of his in battle, perhaps? His boy, God forbid? (Captain Jonathan Aubrey, Master and Commander)
12. I'll have the sweat of that hairy man's brow, thank you. (John, Longtime Companion)
13. Now listen here, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart! (Bernadette Bassenger, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
14. You got authorization from Aunt Ginny? (Daniel Kaffee, A Few Good Men)
15. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. (Ellis B. "Red" Redding, The Shawshank Redemption)

Whose line is it, anyway?

Via Mustang Bobby, a new movie meme. Look up 15 of your favorite movies on IMDb and pick a quote from each. List the quotes in a blog post. When someone correctly identifies the movie in question in a comment, cross off that quote. Answer in comments, please, and No Cheating!.

Here are my quotes:

1. You know what I hate the most about being a public figure? ...The public.
2. I love inscriptions on flyleafs and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned and reading passages someone long-gone has called my attention to.
3. I am upset, I am uptight, I am up to my nipples in Southern Comfort, and you're trying to take advantage of me.
4. I reckon the folks'd be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would.
5. You must also know that I shall be with you every day that is granted to me from now on. Every evening I shall sit down to dine with you. Not with my body, which is of no importance, but with my soul. Because this evening I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible.
6. This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat.
7. I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed.
8. A girl? So I can't play. But then again, I am black, so maybe I can. You're problem's gonna be deciding which one of your narrow-minded stereotypes is gonna kick your lily-white ass.
9. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled.
10. Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?
11. What is it with this man? Did I kill a relative of his in battle, perhaps? His boy, God forbid?
12. I'll have the sweat of that hairy man's brow, thank you.
13. Now listen here, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!
14. You got authorization from Aunt Ginny?
15. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.

Extra credit if you can identify the character who spoke the line in question.

101 gay movies meme

Found this one on a friend's site and thought it might be fun to let it propagate. There's a book out as of last fall, 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (BN, Powell's), though I have to say I'm a bit surprised at some of the movies that made the list--and a lot more that didn't.

Anyway, to play along on this meme, copy the list (below the fold 'cuz it's a looooong one). Boldface the ones you've seen, and then let fly with comments, if any. I got 23, which is three times as many as my friend did--but some of them I never did get all the way through.

Follow me below the fold if you wish (or if you dare).

It begins to come together

I'm having a mini-epiphany this evening. Sitting around the house working on next week's reading assignment for class (mainly composed of Adam Hochschild's terrifying/fascinating book, King Leopold's Ghost), and I've got the telly on in the background for noise. I was watching an episode of CSI on Spike that I swear I must have missed when it was originally broadcast, because it was all new to me. Then their "Casino Cinema" feature came on.

The featured film tonight is that 1984 schlock-fest classic, Red Dawn. Saw it a good half-dozen times on cable or rented it from Blockbuster in the '80s and '90s. (Say what you like about the movie itself, but Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and C. Thomas Howell, at least, looked damn fine.) But once I got over my obsession with the beefcake, I stopped watching the movie when it came on, because there's really not much there worth watching.