My kids leave for sleepaway camp Sunday. This is the first time either one of them have been to sleepaway camp. To celebrate this big adventure, I present my list of great summer camp books and movies. CAMP BOOKS Your ‘Till Niagara Falls, Abby: Abby talks her parents into a summer at sleep away camp so [...]
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Campfire Confessions
Posted in Books, Memories, Movies on July 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A Lost Boy
Posted in Movies on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I was shocked when my husband told me Corey Haim had died, but not really surprised. He was heavy in the drug scene and never seemed able to clean himself up 100 percent. I didn’t watch the reality show featuring Haim and Corey Feldman, but I always had a soft spot in my heart for [...]
Soundtrack of Life
Posted in Movies, Music, Television on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My husband and I were watching TV the other day and came across the last 20 minutes of Footloose, after John Lithgow approves the high school dance and everyone is excited. The teen kids yet no one objected to that) and transform it into an ideal dance locale. Don’t you love music montages? So it’s [...]
Full House Vs. The Wonder Years
Posted in Movies on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I made a faux Thanksgiving dinner for lunch yesterday and as I curled up on the couch to enjoy my turkey-mashed-potato-stuffing-and-pumpkin-pie educed nap, I turned on Lifetime Movie Channel just in time to see Fred Savage deck Candace Cameron. A classic movie of the week featuring two well-known and well-loved movie stars — can there be [...]
Before the Lifetime Movie Network …
Posted in Movies on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There was the MOVIE OF THE WEEK. The movie of the week typically aired on Monday nights. It was absolutely awful, with plots involving amnesia, kidnapped children, double identities, teenage murders, etc. Basically, it was a soap opera without the continuing story lines. And most tended to star 90210 actresses (the first 90210 cast) or [...]
Ante up Maybelline
Posted in Movies on October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I suck at poker. I’m a horrible liar anyway, so trying to bluff is pointless. Yet I always do, thinking I could win big if someone believes me, but they never do and I never win. My friends and I used to play poker with make-up. We were 10, so we didn’t have a ton of [...]
