Sitting down to wrap our Christmas presents, I scanned our DVDs to come up with the perfect film to have in the background.
I do best if the background film is one that I know rather well, but it needs to be a little while since I’ve seen it so I can maintain a small amount of engagement with it while I endeavor to complete the mind numbing task that is wrapping 15 presents of varying sizes.
I grab High Fidelity.
I selected High Fidelity — which I think was an apropos choice for a few reasons, one of which is that John Cusack has been in my top five celebrity crushes since I was fourteen.
Nicole’s Top Five Celebrity Crushes
1. John Cusack - The boy gets my heart all aflutter. The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, The Journey of Natty Gann, Say Anything, Fat Man and Little Boy, Eight Men Out, The Grifters, Bullets Over Broadway (“Don’t speak!â€), Being John Malcovich. . . I can go on. (I choose to ignore certain big ‘what were you thinking’ flicks like Must Love Dogs.) He’s dreamy. And smart. And liberal.
2. Harrison Ford circa 1977- 1990- Even at seven I was more interested in Han Solo than Luke Skywalker. I guess most little girls are. I suppose it is slightly creepy that he is older than my father but I choose to ignore that. I’ve heard that he is a huge pothead and he is too craggy for my taste now given that he is pushing 70 (!!!) but he has to be on the list.
3. George Clooney. Sigh. Another big liberal. My boyfriend George. I know other women say that he is their boyfriend but he really is mine. Other than during that brief mid 80’s puffy mullet thing he had on The Facts of Life. That George I don’t like so much.
4. William Holden. Ah, Bill Holden. I choose to ignore the fact that he was best man at Ronald Regan’s wedding and all that that entails. I even love him in Network when he’s old. Sad though . . . I just figured out the math and he was only sixty or so in that film. Classic example of the booze aging you. It killed him eventually. He fell when he was drinking.
5. Bill Murray. Okay. I know this might be a weird choice. Started after Groundhog Day. He’s just really groovy. Smart, funny. ‘Nuff said.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:50 am
Not that you asked, but I’m SO with you on John, Harrison and George - Robert Mitchum is my William Holden. I do love Bill but the 5th for me is actually Ronald Coleman - old time moviestar - as seen in “A Tale of Two Cities”.