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You're Never Too Old for a Disney Movie...

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Labels: comedy movies, disney, family movies, fun stuff, funny moments, funny movies, laughing, romance movies

I wonder why it is that Disney movies always have the best music? I have at least 2-3 Disney soundtracks at home, Mulan being one of them.

Mulan

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

The Lion King

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Mickey Blue Eyes

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Labels: comedy movies, cute English guys, Drama, English actors, italian actors, Italian heritage, Mafia movies

Mickey Blue Eyes

-1999 film directed by Kelly Makin.
-Hugh Grant stars as an English auctioneer named Michael Felgate who becomes involved in his soon to be father in law's Mafia world. Several of the actors in the movie are featured as cast members on The Sopranos

Did You Know?
-When Vincent Pastore showed up late one day, Caan asked angrily why. Pastore realized another film he was doing ran late, and when Caan realized he was doing 2 films at once, he backed off.
-The theme music is recycled from the 1990s British TV show Jeeves and Wooster
-In the movie, James Caan nicknamed Hugh Grant "Whippy", after the Whippet, an English breed of dog that is small and shivers a lot.
-More than half of the cast also appears on the Sopranos.

Plot
-Michael Felgate(Hugh Grant) is a British auctioneer who proposes to his girlfriend Gina Vitale(Jeanne Tripplehorn), and he is shocked when she turns him down. Gina later explains that her father Frank(James Caan) and most of her cousins and uncles are gangsters involved in a Mafia family. She is worried that he'll become involved, and he does. He manages to get involved in a money laundering scheme that has the FBI looking his way.

-When one of the money laundering scams at Michael's auction house goes awry, Gina's cousin Johnny(John Ventimiglia) confronts and assaults Michael. Gina fires a warning shot into the ceiling which ricochets and kills Johnny. When his father Vito finds out, he tells Frank he will kill Gina unless Frank kills Michael during his wedding speech. Unable to carry this out, Frank confesses what Vito has ordered him to do and Michael and the two of them turn to the FBI for help. They set up an operation in which Michael's murder is faked at the wedding reception. He is given a recording device and is given the job of trying to record Vito into admitting his activity on tape before he is "killed".

-Michael's plan fails, and when Vito realizes that his murder is a fake, he orders Vinnie(Joe Viterelli) to kill Michael. Vinnie shoots Gina in what looks like an accident. Vito is arrested for ordering the murder of Michael. As Frank and Michael mourn Gina's "death" in the back of the ambulance, her death was faked. Vinnie and Gina were involved in the FBI sting. The film's title comes from Michael being forced to impersonate a gangster, who Frank kindly nicknames "Kansas City Little Mickey Blue Eyes." And towards the end of the film, Frank is trying to show Michael the ropes of being a gangster, which is hard for Michael, because he has an English accent and Frank is showing him how to say things like "Forget about it."

Cast

Hugh Grant as Michael Felgate
James Caan as Frank Vitale
Jeanne Tripplehorn as Gina Vitale
Burt Young as Vito Graziosi
James Fox as Philip Cromwell
Joe Viterelli as Vinnie D'Agostino
Gerry Becker as FBI Agent Bob Connell
Maddie Corman as Carol
Tony Darrow as Angelo
Paul Lazar as Ritchie Vitale
Vincent Pastore as Al
Frank Pellegrino as Sante
Scott Thompson as FBI Agent Lewis
John Ventimiglia as Johnny Graziosi
Margaret Devine as Helen, Michael's assistant

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Labels: British pop culture, British TV, comedians, comedy movies, England, funny people, funny songs, Funny Stuff, funny TV shows, Humor

Monty Python's Flying Circus

-BBC comedy show broadcast from 1969-1974
-Comprised or surreality, risque, innuendo humor, sight gags, observational sketches without punchlines
-First episode debuted on Sept. 7, 1969
-The show targeted various topics, like British culture, especially those of high ranking people. The crew members of the show were very highly educated; Terry Jones and Michael Palin were Oxford graduates; Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge; and American born Terry Gilliam is an Occidenal College grad.
-Their humor is often intellectual, while making jokes about literary figures.

Did You Know?
-Terry Gilliam was the only American in the group

Characters

Arthur Pewtey(Palin)
-socially inept, very dull guy who appears in the skit "Argument Clinic" "Marriage Guidance Counselor" "Ministry of Silly Walks"
-His skits take the form of an office appointment with an authority figure, usually John Cleese, or occasionally Chapman. They end up parodying the British establishment by having the professional employed in bizarre fields of work

The Reverend Arthur Belling(Chapman and Palin)
-Vicar of St. Loony-Up-The-Cream-Bun-And-Jam
-Known for bizarre behavior

The "It's" man(Palin)
-Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, with torn clothing, long, unkept beard, who appears at the beginning of the show
-He is seen performing some long or dangerous task, such as falling off a tall, jagged cliff, or running large distance towards the camera and saying "It's"

Mr. Badger(Idle)
-Scotsman whose specialty is interrupting sketches
-Has been seen as an airplane hijacker, whose demands are odd

The "Pepperpots"
-Screeching, middle aged, lower-middle class housewives played by the Pythons in dresses.
-The Pythons played most of the female roles themselves, unless the part called for younger, more glamorous actresses
-"Pepperpot" refers to what the Pythons believed was a typical image of a middle class British housewife
-Their real life targets have included then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the British police, being shown in drag, Queen Victoria

Character Traits

Chapman
-Played straight faced guys, of any age/class, authority figures, such as military officers, police, doctors
-Also was called upon to play cross dressing and gay stereotypes, in fact he was gay, but it was not publicly known

Cleese
-Played ridiculous authority figures
-Chapman claims he is the funniest one in drag
-Also played foreigners with odd accents, such as Frenchmen

Gilliam
-Many of the animations were done by him
-Some of his on screen work included: A man with a stoat through his head, Cardinal Fang in The Spanish Inquisition sketch, A dandy wearing a mask, bikini underwear, and a cape, a hotel clerk in The Cycling Tour episode

Idle
-Best known for his roles as a cheeky, suggestive playboy, "Nudge, Nudge" as a crafty salesman, in Monty Python's Life of Brian, a merchant who loves to haggle
-Known as the master of the one liner
-Unlike Jones, Idle usually ended up playing the female roles, only altering his voice slightly.
-Several times he appeared as upper-class, middle aged females, such as Rita Fairbanks, sexually repressed Protestant wife

Jones
-He was said to have pulled most of the strings on the show

Palin
-Considered by all the Pythons as the one with the widest range, adept as a straight man, or wildly over the top
-Played working class northerners, weak willed, put upon men, boring accountant in the "Vocational Guidance Counselor"
-Also plays heavily accented characters, mostly French