As we transition from October into November, I’ve chosen to talk about a movie that includes both Halloween and Thanksgiving in some ways: 1993’s Addams Family Values. To be more specific, I plan to discuss the scene where the camp attendees perform an end-of-summer play about Thanksgiving. This play within the movie is set upContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Addams Family Values”
Category Archives: Nostalgia
Throwback Thursday: Young Frankenstein
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (played by Gene Wilder), a young neurosurgeon who insists his name is pronounced Fronk-n-steen, inherits his grandfather’s castle and research. Frederick doesn’t believe in the experiments supposedly performed by his grandfather Victor Frankenstein until he decides to attempt the reanimation outlined in one of the books he finds in the castle’s laboratory.Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: Young Frankenstein”
Where Is Tomorrow?
If you have the misfortune of reading my books, you may pick up a sense of optimism. I believed in the happy ending, and a happy ending with light and music. I’m not so sure now. Confessing a secret: I’m a Trekker since the original series first aired. Dating myself, yes, but I remember whenContinue reading “Where Is Tomorrow?”
Throwback Thursday: Quantum Leap
“Theorizing that one can time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator…and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.” This narration is part of theContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Quantum Leap”
Throwback Thursday – The Monkees
The Beatles phenomenon of the 1960s, especially the movie A Hard Day’s Night, led to the creation of a made-for-TV musical foursome to be known as The Monkees. The initial idea was to cast an existing group, but that fell through. Since Screen Gems already had a contract with Davy Jones for a television program,Continue reading “Throwback Thursday – The Monkees”
Throwback Thursday: Bewitched
Autumn has arrived. The leaves are turning colors, the nights are growing longer and cooler, and for many of us the spooky season has begun. In honor of the time of year, the next few Throwback Thursday posts will relate to Halloween in some way. This week’s Throwback is to a half-hour television sitcom fromContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Bewitched”
Throwback Thursday: More Little Women
This past weekend, my partner in life and writing, JT Hume, watched Little Women for the first time. This is a story I’ve long been familiar with, as mentioned in our podcast last Sunday, and I was interested to know what he would think of one of my old favorites. For more on JT’s firstContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: More Little Women”
Podcast: Little Women
The one where CC explains how Little Women by Louisa May Alcott helped shape her as a person and writer. JT gives his impression of the book through viewing the 1994 movie adaptation. We thoroughly spoil the novel from cover to cover, but considering it was first released in 1868, we’re okay with that. WeContinue reading “Podcast: Little Women”
Throwback Thursday: The Last Starfighter
“Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada…” So begins another of the hero cycle stories that JT and I discussed in our last podcast: 1984’s The Last Starfighter. Like its predecessor of a few years earlier, Star Wars: A New Hope, StarfighterContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: The Last Starfighter”
Throwback Thursday: Star Wars
Luke Skywalker is bored. He lives with his aunt and uncle on a desert planet and works on their moisture farm. A high point for him is visiting Tosche Station to pick up power converters. Luke longs for adventure and wants to be a pilot for the Rebel Alliance in the fight against the Empire.Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: Star Wars”