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connielane at 01:29pm on 02/09/2003 under movies
connielane at 01:29pm on 02/09/2003 under moviesThis is my first LJ posting. Woo-hoo!
Okay, I don't exactly know what to do here. I feel a bit like a new kid at school who is just sitting in a corner, waiting for someone to come say hi.
I guess the first thing I'd like to do, for anyone who might see this, is to explain my username. My actual name is Pam. But I have used "connielane" as my username on lots of discussion forums (mostly to do with Harry Potter). So why the connielane nonsense?
Several years ago, I was watching American Movie Classics and a movie I had never heard of, called "Good News" came on. I started watching it, and I really enjoyed it. In fact, it instantly became one of my favorite movies. So what if it's a corny 1940s musical? So what if it has a plot hole you could sail the Titanic through? It's all about the brainy girl getting the guy, and that gave me hope, not being of the high-maintenance, froofy, girly-girl type myself.
"Good News" is set in 1927 at the fictional Tate College. Tommy Marlowe (played by Peter Lawford) is the football hero, and he's been hearing about this new gorgeous "dame" on campus, Pat Maclellan, who simpers and smiles and tries to impress people with what little she knows of the French language (her delivery of "quel frommage" is particularly hilarious). Tommy is determined to woo her, but all she's after is a rich, sophosticated guy. Determined to show Pat that he can be sophisticated right back, Tommy recruits Connie Lane (my username-sake), a languages major and the assistant librarian, to get him into the toughest French class there is. Connie agrees, and teaches him a bit of French herself. Tommy is instantly drawn to Connie, and even kisses her, but in the next breath he brushes her off, still determined to win the fair Miss Maclellan.
Of course, Tommy realizes that he really loves Connie, and tries to sacrifice his football career and Tate's chances of winning "the big game" by professing his love for Connie on his French exam make-up, which Connie (assistant to the French professor as well) will be grading. If he fails French, he can't play in the game, and for some reason this means that his engagement to Pat Maclellan is null and void. (???) Naturally, everything works out for everyone, and the entire cast performs a rousing musical number in the end.
Yeah, my username is an obscure reference. Even the movie is obscure - I think it's even out of print. But I loved the idea that learning and knowledge can be attractive qualities in a female, and it gave me hope that there are still some guys in the world who look at the right things when it comes to girls.
So, here I am, if anyone's interested.
Ta!
Okay, I don't exactly know what to do here. I feel a bit like a new kid at school who is just sitting in a corner, waiting for someone to come say hi.
I guess the first thing I'd like to do, for anyone who might see this, is to explain my username. My actual name is Pam. But I have used "connielane" as my username on lots of discussion forums (mostly to do with Harry Potter). So why the connielane nonsense?
Several years ago, I was watching American Movie Classics and a movie I had never heard of, called "Good News" came on. I started watching it, and I really enjoyed it. In fact, it instantly became one of my favorite movies. So what if it's a corny 1940s musical? So what if it has a plot hole you could sail the Titanic through? It's all about the brainy girl getting the guy, and that gave me hope, not being of the high-maintenance, froofy, girly-girl type myself.
"Good News" is set in 1927 at the fictional Tate College. Tommy Marlowe (played by Peter Lawford) is the football hero, and he's been hearing about this new gorgeous "dame" on campus, Pat Maclellan, who simpers and smiles and tries to impress people with what little she knows of the French language (her delivery of "quel frommage" is particularly hilarious). Tommy is determined to woo her, but all she's after is a rich, sophosticated guy. Determined to show Pat that he can be sophisticated right back, Tommy recruits Connie Lane (my username-sake), a languages major and the assistant librarian, to get him into the toughest French class there is. Connie agrees, and teaches him a bit of French herself. Tommy is instantly drawn to Connie, and even kisses her, but in the next breath he brushes her off, still determined to win the fair Miss Maclellan.
Of course, Tommy realizes that he really loves Connie, and tries to sacrifice his football career and Tate's chances of winning "the big game" by professing his love for Connie on his French exam make-up, which Connie (assistant to the French professor as well) will be grading. If he fails French, he can't play in the game, and for some reason this means that his engagement to Pat Maclellan is null and void. (???) Naturally, everything works out for everyone, and the entire cast performs a rousing musical number in the end.
Yeah, my username is an obscure reference. Even the movie is obscure - I think it's even out of print. But I loved the idea that learning and knowledge can be attractive qualities in a female, and it gave me hope that there are still some guys in the world who look at the right things when it comes to girls.
So, here I am, if anyone's interested.
Ta!
hopeful
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Ah, sorry for the rant. Anyway, I'll add you as a friend. :)
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Hi!
Hi.
This is peas and carrots from Fiction Alley. I just wanted to say that I like reading your journal entries, and wanted to say that was an interesting story on your username. My username comes from a movie too, and you can probably guess which one. Yes, that movie was on the overly sentimental side, and yes it certainly didn't deserve all those Academy Awards, but I still like to watch it. I thought the phrase sort of fit Harry (peas because of his green eyes) and Ginny (carrots because of her orange-red hair) too.
Finally, this is a really weird question, but since you seem to be a fan of movies, and AMC, I thought you might know the answer to this. It's been bugging me for more than five years now. Did you happen to ever see a movie on AMC which was set in London, where a woman is torn between two guys, they're both really nice guys but one's really rich and the other isn't quite poor but he certainly isn't rich either. I remember they both give her a piece of jewelry. The rich guy of course gives her like this diamond bracelet or necklace, and the poorer guy gives her a nice simple charm bracelet I think. However, I think the rich guy had a sister who was in love with the poorer guy, so she tells the woman that she should leave because she's wrecking the men's friendship. So since she can't decide in the end between the two men, she goes off to America. I guess she had a son or something, who goes back to England during the war, and he falls in love with one of the poorer man's daughter, and her father tells him the story of his mother or something like that. Then, at the end of the story, the son and daughter finally end up getting together on a bridge maybe, while bombs are being dropped in the background. Sorry, about being so vague, but I watched it late at night one time, and for some reason AMC didn't replay it again, and I couldn't even identify the actors in it. I thought for sure one was William Powell, but I looked it up on the IMDb, and he's never been in a movie that fits that description. It's driving me crazy that I've never been able to find this movie again.
Re: Hi.
I'm not familiar with that movie, but you've piqued my curiosity. I did a keyword search on "bracelet" and "jewelry", but I didn't get anything that resembled what you described.
But I'm still looking.