Greetings, All!

Friday the 13th is fast approaching when I'll be hosting the second in
my series of "New Furniture" movie nights.  Please RSVP your
availability so I can better plan.  (If you've previously sent regrets,
you don't need to again, but you can still vote for the September movie
night feature down below! )

August 13th is Alfred Hitchcock's 100th birthday.  By right, I should be
showing a Hitchcock film, but I just showed "The Lady Vanishes" last
week.  So for those intrepid Hitch fans who want to stay after the
movie, I will show a Hitchcock tribute airing next week on AMC.

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The next presentation at Kevin's Friday Night Movies:
(Friday, August 13th, cartoon shorts to start promptly @ 8:00pm)

*** Breakfast at Tiffany's ***

"Audrey Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, the craziest heroine who ever
crept between the pages of a best-selling novel!" - original promotional
tagline

(USA, 1961)  Directed by Blake Edwards.  Starring Audrey Hepburn and
George Peppard.  Adapted from the novel by Truman Capote.

Awards: Oscars for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture -
Henry Mancini and Best Music, Song - "Moon River" by Henry Mancini &
Johnny Mercer.  Nominations: Best Actress for Audrey Heburn and Best
Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - George
Axelrod

Memorable Quotes:

Holly Golightly: I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a
girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Mag Wildwood: You know what's gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you 
over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.

Holly: He's alright! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob 
without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him
one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the
river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and
things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is
like. It's like Tiffany's.
Paul: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store.
Holly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!

Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are?
You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin
and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong
to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real
happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're
terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're
already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the
west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you
go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into
yourself.

Holly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been 
raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are
horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid
of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul: Sure.
Holly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump
in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.

Trivia:

Author Truman Capote envisioned Marilyn Monroe in the part of Holly.

More at http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054698

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Vote for the next Friday Night Movie on September 10th:
A) North by Northwest (1959)
B) The Last Emperor, Director's Cut (1987)
C) Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
D) Viewer's Choice _______________________

October 15-16: Special Presentation of "What's Up, Doc?" (1972) and a 
mini-Simpsons Marathon, co-hosted by Dan!

Suggestions for future movie nights always welcome.

If you don't suffer from triskadekaphobia, I'll expect to see you on
Friday the 13th!

Kevin