They Say What They Say

And tonight's homework avoidance tactic of choice is bananana muffins. This was selected because our intrepid diarist somehow watched all the videos she borrowed from the library at work in just over two days. These videos include:

Adam's Rib (1949): Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn star in a sparkling comedy about a pair of married lawyers who find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom when they become involved in the case of a woman who tried to shoot her unfaithful husband. Directed by George Cukor, it is considered one of the best examples of screwball comedy and features rare home movie footage of Hepburn and Tracey taken at their real-life country house.

The Odd Angry Shot (1979): The adventures of a group of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam war. At once funny and starkly realistic, it features a sublime cast of Aussie actors, including a young and buff Bryan Brown, a slim and boyish Jon Jarratt, a youthful Graeme Blundell, the late John Hargraeves and the recently departed, and sorely missed King of Australian television, Graham Kennedy.

Vertigo (1958): A former San Francisco police detective develops a profound fear of heights after he witnesses a fellow officer falling to his death. He is hired to follow the suicidal wife of an old college friend and finds himself plunged into a complex plot of murder and betrayal when he falls in love with his subject. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, it is considered to be one of Hitchcock's finest cinematic outings.

Cabaret (19720: In pre-world war II Berlin, a young English man becomes involved with a kooky American nightclub singer. But the even though the show still goes on at the infamous Kit Kat Club, how long will it be before the world as they know it changes forever? Starring Michael York, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, it was directed by the late, great Bob Fosse and garnered 8 Academy Awards, including best actor (Grey), best actress (Minnelli) and best director (Fosse).

And tonight's homework avoidance tactic of choice is bananana muffins. This was selected because our intrepid diarist somehow watched all the videos she borrowed from the library at work in just over two days. These videos include:

Adam's Rib (1949): Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn star in a sparkling comedy about a pair of married lawyers who find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom when they become involved in the case of a woman who tried to shoot her unfaithful husband. Directed by George Cukor, it is considered one of the best examples of screwball comedy and features rare home movie footage of Hepburn and Tracey taken at their real-life country house.

The Odd Angry Shot (1979): The adventures of a group of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam war. At once funny and starkly realistic, it features a sublime cast of Aussie actors, including a young and buff Bryan Brown, a slim and boyish Jon Jarratt, a youthful Graeme Blundell, the late John Hargraeves and the recently departed, and sorely missed King of Australian television, Graham Kennedy.

Vertigo (1958): A former San Francisco police detective develops a profound fear of heights after he witnesses a fellow officer falling to his death. He is hired to follow the suicidal wife of an old college friend and finds himself plunged into a complex plot of murder and betrayal when he falls in love with his subject. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, it is considered to be one of Hitchcock's finest cinematic outings.

Cabaret (19720: In pre-world war II Berlin, a young English man becomes involved with a kooky American nightclub singer. But the even though the show still goes on at the infamous Kit Kat Club, how long will it be before the world as they know it changes forever? Starring Michael York, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, it was directed by the late, great Bob Fosse and garnered 8 Academy Awards, including best actor (Grey), best actress (Minnelli) and best director (Fosse).