Guys, want some cathartic tears?

In addition to the EW list of tearjerking little kid movies, there's a list of "guy cry" movies as well. And I gotta agree with most of them. Some are sports movies, some are chick flicks, and they're all pretty accurate.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
   
2. Armageddon
3. (3-way tie -- "Chick Flicks") Terms of Endearment, Love Story, Steel Magnolias
4. Field of Dreams
5. (5-way tie -- "Movies with Dogs") My Dog Skip, Snoopy Come Home, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Marley & Me (film)
6. Good Will Hunting
7. Brian's Song
8. Big Fish
9. Backdraft
10. Hoosiers
11. Saving Private Ryan
12. Hotel Rwanda

I will say this. I've only seen Big Fish, Hotel Rwanda, and Marley and Me. But those three were cryers, and I totally get why they're on the list.

Looking to Shed Some Cathartic Tears? Here Ya Go!

Thanks a lot, EW(.com). Thanks a lot, for making me cry.

Seriously, why would they subject the world to this list of 20 tearjerking kids' flicks if they explicitly put in the title of the slideshow that it will make you cry?

The list is as follows (I'm bolding the ones I've seen):

Bambi
The Iron Giant
Dumbo
Old Yeller - Though It's been a while
Annie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Watership Down - Though I've read the book
The NeverEnding Story
Man in the Moon
The Lion King - One of my favorite movies of all time. Scratch that, one of the best movies period of all time.
Wall-E
The Black Stallion - Again, it's been a while.
My Dog Skip
Born Free - Again, I've read the book.
Charlotte's Web
Babe
A Little Princess
Fly Away Home - I think I've seen the whole thing.
Milo and Otis
The Fox and the Hound

Thank God!

It's good to know He's been keeping himself busy.

About That Last Post

Yeah, I don't know about the whole "string theorists fail and become screenwriters thing, but I'm all for more pictures of Hugh Laurie and Jim Parsons on this blog.
Ladies? Keep up the good work.

What Is Going On Here?

So it's 9pm on a Thursday night. Take a moment to guess what Allie and I are doing right now. If you guessed researching string theory, you would be correct. It started with an attempt to revise Allie's screenplay, and now I'm trying to understand things like M-Theory and 10 dimensions. Meanwhile, Allie looked up information about the guy who came up with the concept of the theory. It turns out that the guy's brother is a screenwriter for House. What does this show? Those who don't become string theorists become screenwriters. Whether this is good or bad for us and our current predicament is yet to be determined.

So is this what it's like to be Sheldon Cooper?

Alex Shamelessly Self Promotes

So I did this on my other blog, but I'm totally pimping other things I write for. First of all, go check out Northgraves on the Hill to see what Anne got up to in London (slash might still be doing). Second, my other two are Girl Gone Mild (what I'm usually up to, when I get around to updating it) and The Cover-Up, which is the more official blog for Imprint Magazine, which features fun and offbeat cover songs for your listening/viewing pleasure.

You can now return to your regular D&D reading.

We Have To See This Movie!!!

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassas Trailer!!!!!

We have to see this movie!!!

More Thoughts on Top Girls

I'm still not sure what I make of Top Girls. Actually, you know what? I do know what I make of Top Girls. I both loved it and hated it. Let me explain.

The Production and Acting talent was absolutely amazing, and the time flew fast- I didn't realize until it was over that 3 hours had past! So in that respect, I liked it a lot. Kudos to all the Ithaca people who were involved. BUT- I agree with Alex on this one. The play itself was overindulgent and inconsistent. I really feel like the story was just beginning with the final scene in Act II, and really would like to know what happens in the aftermath. Of course, we do know, because the aftermath was in Act I- but we didn't know that while we were watching it. Still, several of the scenes (and characters) seemed dislocated and unnecessary when I consider that the entire story arc happens (backwards) between Act II, Scene 2 and Act II, Scene 1. Oh- and the sound design kind of freaked me out a little bit- what was with the gregorian chanting in a London office building in the 80's?

But whatever. I still rather enjoyed it just because the cast was so freaking amazing.

On that note, go see it if you can. Anyone sitting there reeling from casting woes like I am will be absolutely in awe by the talent on stage.

Bravo, BFA acting majors, Bravo.

Top Girls - Whuh?

So Allie and I went to go see Top Girls over at Dillingham last night and almost didn't get tickets. But that's beside the point. The point is...

...I didn't get it.

The acting was fantastic (especially the two girls playing Angie and Joyce. REALLY good), and the set was pretty cool. But the play itself? I totally didn't get the beginning, and why the scene after the intro was necessary. It was just trippy and indulgent and weird. The plot synopsis kind of makes it as simple as it could be, but I still don't know if I liked it or not.

Maybe I'm just not deep enough for theater. Allie? Thoughts?

Pseudo Dirty Sesame Street Humor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQgB4424SIM&feature=related

My roommate Bekah just showed me this, and I wanted to share. LOL!

One Step Closer to World Domination

So in case you haven't noticed, Drugs & Donuts has now gone international!

We recently added authors from LA (Morgan!), which isn't really international, but still outside of the rainy northeast HQ of D&D. Our real international now is Casey, blogging live (well, not live) from London.

So what started as a random Saturday night project has since turned into Kelly's idea of global domination. With a simple blog, we have stepped one closer to ruling the world. Just as Pinky and the Brain always hoped we would.

Scandal!

So we have a new conspiracy theory: Is Terrace Dining Hall watering down their milk?

The other day I noticed that my skim milk was almost too water-like for even my non-discerning palate. Then today, Allie's 2% looked rather weak, and we both felt that it had a skim-like quality to its appearance. The conclusion, in the words of Sheldon Cooper: "I drank milk that tasted funny!"

So, dear readers, is this evidence of lactic-fraud or is it simply bad luck on our parts?

You decide!

The Wonderful World Of Child Actors

Ah, child actors. What a complicated life you lead. You come in so many shapes and sizes — adorable, creepy, great talent, vacant, burnout, promising starlet, and any combination thereof. You could go the Lindsay Lohan route, and go from talented promising young actor to the sadly expressionless, voice-of-a-50-year-old-smoker young woman she is today. You could go the Jackie Earle Haley route and be promising before burning out in 1993, only to come back after 13 years and get an Oscar nomination for his disturbing and sad performance in Little Children.

Two I think (slash hope) will avoid all the crazy downfall stuff are Dakota Fanning and Abigail Breslin. Both are great actresses (who I am kind of jealous of, talent-wise). While watching a bit of Littile Miss Sunshine with Allie, we started surfin' the wild web, and found this delightful send up of serious/not serious child actors from SNL. Enjoy!

As you wish

My landlord's name is Danny Elwes. We felt silly for asking him if he was related to Cary Elwes, but asked anyway. He's a very distant cousin of Westley from The Princess Bride! He's never met him though, but that's still so cool!

London and my Waistline

Ok these are probably the most addicting cookies ever, excuse me I meant biscuits. You wouldn't think so from their deceivingly simple cookie appearance. But they are crumbly, oaty, and delicious. They go really well with a nice cuppa tea, or dangerously well with some Nutella. I wish I could stop buying them. My name is Casey and I'm addicted to HobNobs, thank you London.

I sort of feel like I just did an advertisement for HobNobs. Maybe my posts will be random English culture tidbits. Maybe some funny things that I see. Stay tuned...

Because it Makes Me Happy

Dear friends,

Can I just say how wonderful I think this blog is? It's wonderful. I'm so glad that so many of us are contributing to this little experiment. What started as a joke became the title of a blog that Kelly and I decided to make on a whim and has become a way for all of us share observations and adventures in our lives. Now, the blog is even international! Morgan is in LA, and Casey is in London- Bogirls abroad in the wider world!

So I want to thank you all for playing along with this particular side-theme in our life adventure as students and thank you all for being my friends.

I'm not normally so sentimental, but thinking about you all, and how we're still connected even though we're not all living on the same floor anymore, truly makes me happy.

Live long and blog!