Annie: the Musical

It is the best song in the musical, imo.

It makes me cry a little ;_;

I always wanted a spin-off musical about the adventures of Pepper.

yes pepper is the best

I love the angry-man antics of Daddy Warbucks. There is a disturbingly large amount of panty-shots in this musical, though. Especially since half of them are of like 9 year old girls. o.0

Sometimes Albert FInney's talking voice sounded like Cotton

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509102925/kingofthehill/images/7/71/Cotton.jpg

First time I went to the movies after seeing "Annie" I was most angry that it was NOTHING LIKE in Annie! (NB I wouldve been about 5)

hahaha wow

Annie is 100% why I watch the Macys Thanksgiving Parade: i just want to see the Rockettes. That let's go to the movies Annie scene is one of my favorites. If I saw the Rockettes at Radio City irl I would probably bawl my eyes out

Also there were SO many things I didnt get in the movie as a kid that dawned on me later: like Miss Hannigan's bathtub gin. I never got why she was drinking her bathwater, lol

i got to meet a rockette at radio city music hall and go into their rehearsal area and costume shop and measure myself on their height chart when i was 15

it was not wasted on me, i was dying and my life's ambition was to become 5'8"

Carol Burnett rules this movie. And Tim Curry. And Ann Reinking. Ok fuck it, I love this movie.

Abbott's right, though -- the "spunky little redhead" is the least of the movie's pleasures.

I like that when I saw it again recently (in the past couple years, I guess) I got all the jokes about Warbucks being a gilded-age capitalist in the middle of a depression. Like when a communist sneaks on to the balcony with one one of those round black bombs with a fuse that only exist in comic books.

yeah, its not that i found that stuff impenetrable when i watched it as a child, its more like those parts didnt exist at all

like everything in between musical numbers was like the grey screen that the terminator sees

Roxy omg @ meeting Rockettes! How did that even happen? :D

Bernadette Peters is so freakin great too. "Like the hotel"

i was in a dance troupe that got to go to nyc to do all this weird, cool stuff you don't normally get to do in nyc. it was like the ultimate fantasy unreal nyc trip for a teenage girl.

BERNADETTE IS THE BEST

Roxy you lived my dream :)

Did u guys see the documentary about all the girls who played Annie in the broadway tour?

i haven't even heard of it. i'd love to see it

It's called "Life After Tomorrow"...they were airing it on A&E a while ago. Really worth finding, I enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, I think we need a song break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry79LzkkDb4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

i loved to hear jay z talking about annie on fresh air

Yeah that was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkEXszYtdo

Life After Tomorrow is on Hulu.

yes!

i loved to hear jay z talking about annie on fresh air

I liked him describing the "izzo/izzay" type of suffixes as "a kind of pig latin." I'd never thought that, but... yeah, that's about right.

i liked that too!

Funny, I just showed this to my kids for the first time. Am I right that there's no adequate transfer of this on DVD? Only cropped or pan and scan?

ARe little kids snobs about widescreen these days?

I know I was! Ever since I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and it was the letterbox edition...

1. Carol Burnett should've been nominated for and maybe won an Oscar for her pratfalls in "Easy Street" alone.
2. It was because of this movie that I used to, as a 6 year old, use the term "Bolshevik" as an insult.

And you still do, you godless Trotskyite.

hi ned!!

Hi there!

This was always on HBO or something when we first got cable but I'm still not sure if I ever actually saw it all the way through in one sitting, it was like I caught bits of it here and there each time. Carol Burnett ruled.

Downloaded a rip of the soundtrack to add "Maybe" to my karaoke playlist. The banter at the beginning of "Sign" is pretty hilarious without the visuals.

Burnett: "My GOD, is that thing real?!"

Love how Burnett talks to the radio at the beginning of 'Little Girls'

I think she's part of the reason I've always been mildly nervous around drunk ppl, lol

ok ladies, did anyone see the movie that featured the Broadway cast of Annie talking about getting their periods?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212977/

O_O

that's.... a hell of a cast list

Menstruating Girl
Menstruating Girl
Menstruating Girl

i remember when I was a kid i thought misses hannigan was pretty cool but now that i am an adult I think she's REALLY cool

your clothes MAY BE
beau BRUMMELY

UH youre never fully dressed

Don't encourage her, Punjab!

WHYYYY DO I SMELL WET DOG??

My only regret is that I couldn't be meaner.

who takes the place of FDR?

Twitter.

Honestly, of all the movies for people to be coming out of the "it's not THAT bad" woodwork.

The trailer for this was completely charmless (even Quvenzhané Wallis looked totally unengaged). Yet your review makes it sound more charmless than I could've even imagined.

And I'm forced to ask about yet another remake: why not just make it its own thing if you're going to alter the source material to such an extent that you're likely to turn off anyone who might've been enticed by another filmed iteration of that particular story/property?

Am guessing this version would never have happened without the Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life" breathing alleged life into the property.

It was nepotism on behalf of Willow Smith that kickstarted the whole thing. Then she got too old.

lol are you serious

Yeah, wasn't it originally supposed to be Will and Willow? An After Earth present for his little girl?

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

Can't wait for the Pinkett-Smith Sophie's Choice.

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

a total idiot?

oh lol didn't see the "wouldn't" there haha

that picture on the review just makes me continue weeping for Rose Byrne's career

xpost But that's probably Will Smith's honest take. Given the money and the pull, only a total idiot would refrain from giving his beloved children their own vanity projects.

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives, might as well get them career-focused early in life like he was (is my guess)

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives

Or go to school.

or experience linear time

has Willow Smith been in any movies? I just skimmed that interview a few weeks ago where she and her brother sounded like herbal teabags in corporeal form.

xp they'll probably end up getting ivy league degrees anyway lbr

sister obliged to take kid to this yesterday as the coal in her stocking