May the Fourth be with you! If you’re going to mark the day by watching “Star Wars,” please do us all a favor and stick to the original trilogy. Thank you.
Movie-A-Day #123: The Big Lebowski (1998).
Today is Lumpy Rug Day. And if there’s anything we’ve learned from
“The Big Lebowski” (and I hope we’ve learned a lot of things) it’s that the right rug can really tie a room together.
Movie-A-Day #122: Man About Town (1939).
“The Jack Benny Program” debuted on NBC radio on this day in 1932, launching the career of a 20th century comedy legend. The show ran on various networks until 1955, and also made the jump to television in 1950 with a version that ran until 1965. That’s 33 years on the air, and Benny also made plenty of movies along the way, including the classic “Man About Town.” Now that’s a career.
Movie-A-Day #121: East Side Story (1997).
Happy May Day! It’s also International Workers Day, which was traditionally the day that the Soviet Union and the other Eastern Bloc countries would ladle on the bombast with huge parades and displays of military might. But lest you think the old school Communists were all military precision and no play, check out “East Side Story,” a documentary about the string of musicals churned out behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Movie-A-Day #120: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968).
Today is the birthday of Alice B. Toklas, the partner and muse of Gertrude Stein. She is perhaps best remembered for popularizing (though not creating) the first recipe for pot brownies. The Peter Sellers film “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!” actually has nothing to do with Toklas herself, but it does immerse itself in the 1960s drug culture and is pretty fun in its own right.
Desuko Movie Spot. 