I have modern films in my shelves that I picked up and hadn't watched yet, so I've been going through those lately. I watched Good Night, And Good Luck. last night. Good film. And it reminds me, if you haven't seen the Woody Allen flick The Front, it's worth looking up and having NetFlix send it.

Over xmas the family was here and we had dinner and we always seem to end up watching movies. During the day The Man Who Came to Dinner (Monte Woolley, Bette Davis, et al.) was on, and then because they didn't know a lot about Bette's range, I put in one of my favorite bad-girl Bette films The Letter. Ironic that in the Dinner film there is a ton of name dropping, and the servant reading a list mangles W. Somerset Maugham's name. The Letter is one of his short stories. They decided they wanted something more upbeat and went through all of my discs - made a mess of the order - and my son announced he had never seen Chicago. That pretty much set "Bad Girls" as the theme for the evening.

A film that I love to show to people who have never seen it is Being There with Peter Sellers. I dropped that on the family a few years ago and delighted in watching them squirm!

SRS