What's the Corniest ThingWhat is the Corniest Thing in Movies/TV That Still Gets You?
Okay, we're all saps about something in entertainment so let's 'fess up. Here's my list of corny things that still get me every time.
1. Gordon Macrae riding his horse and singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!" at the beginning of the film version of "Oklahoma!" Normally something like this would make me gag, but there is something both simple and magnificent about Macrae's voice, along with his "aw shucks" persona that literally makes me weep.
2. The whole cast singing "Oklahoma!" in the wedding scene in the movie version of same. Something about the harmonies, the quality of the voices, the song itself, and this particular arrangement that just knocks me out.
3. About 15 years ago, PBS filmed a special of the late Leonard Bernstein conducting a new cast recording of "West Side Story." José Carreras is singing "Maria" and he just can't get it right. He storms out of the session, clearly angry and frustrated with himself. He returns the next day and just nails it. Carreras hits and holds one note in "Maria" in such a way that I bust out crying every time I see and hear this.
4. Elderly people square dancing.
5. Everything about the movies "Splash" and "Big." They're not really corny, but they have some sentimental moments, but I don't care. I buy it.
6. Once when I was about 30 my father and I were having lunch and we started talking about two particular and much beloved dogs we had from the time I was about 12 until one died when I was 21 and the other when I was about 25--Chauncey and Boo Boo. We were laughing about the things they did--like stealing Christmas cookies and hiding them in their doggie beds--and next thing you know we were bawling our heads off. We had several other dogs and constantly had cats--the latter of which were always playing tricks on the dogs in classic Looney Tunes fashion--but Chauncy and Boo Boo, they get me going ever time.
There are others, but those are the only ones I'm willing to reveal
Okay, now somebody else cough up theirs.
Rgirl
Okay, we're all saps about something in entertainment so let's 'fess up. Here's my list of corny things that still get me every time.
1. Gordon Macrae riding his horse and singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!" at the beginning of the film version of "Oklahoma!" Normally something like this would make me gag, but there is something both simple and magnificent about Macrae's voice, along with his "aw shucks" persona that literally makes me weep.
2. The whole cast singing "Oklahoma!" in the wedding scene in the movie version of same. Something about the harmonies, the quality of the voices, the song itself, and this particular arrangement that just knocks me out.
3. About 15 years ago, PBS filmed a special of the late Leonard Bernstein conducting a new cast recording of "West Side Story." José Carreras is singing "Maria" and he just can't get it right. He storms out of the session, clearly angry and frustrated with himself. He returns the next day and just nails it. Carreras hits and holds one note in "Maria" in such a way that I bust out crying every time I see and hear this.
4. Elderly people square dancing.
5. Everything about the movies "Splash" and "Big." They're not really corny, but they have some sentimental moments, but I don't care. I buy it.
6. Once when I was about 30 my father and I were having lunch and we started talking about two particular and much beloved dogs we had from the time I was about 12 until one died when I was 21 and the other when I was about 25--Chauncey and Boo Boo. We were laughing about the things they did--like stealing Christmas cookies and hiding them in their doggie beds--and next thing you know we were bawling our heads off. We had several other dogs and constantly had cats--the latter of which were always playing tricks on the dogs in classic Looney Tunes fashion--but Chauncy and Boo Boo, they get me going ever time.
There are others, but those are the only ones I'm willing to reveal
Okay, now somebody else cough up theirs.Rgirl
