This should be good…the 1990s were a great decade for film. Let’s see what I can dig up:
1. You don’t want to turn into the town drunk, Eddie. Not in Manhattan.
Solved by George (comment #7).
2. I want to look good naked.
Solved by Trevor J (comment #1).
3. I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year.
Solved by Barbs (comment #12).
4. We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).
5. I’ve been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I’ve been hungry for a decade. I’ve had a series of not nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it’s entertainment.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).
6. There was a moment when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn’t get no answers ’cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions.
Solved by Ben (comment #11).
7. Everyone thinks I’m this big dyke because I wear baggy pants and play sports and I’m not pretty like other girls.
Solved by Evn (comment #3).
I’ll pick the low-hanging fruit.
#2 American Beauty
#5 is Notting Hill
#7, I believe, is But I’m a Cheerleader.
#4 is The Spanish Prisoner.
Ooh, that’s right. I knew I recognized #4. Love that movie. Not so keen on Rebecca Pigeon, though.
I mean her acting in that movie. Otherwise, quite keen.
#1 is Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. I was sort of obsessed with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker for awhile….
If you’re familiar with the joke about the Plotnik Diamond, Rebecca Pigeon is the Plotnik Curse of Mamet movies.
Ha, I’d not heard that joke. She definitely stunk up Heist, but I kinda liked her in State and Main:
Hoffman’s character: You believe me?
Pigeon’s: I do if you do.
Hoffman: But it’s absurd.
Pigeon: So’s our electoral process. But we still vote.
I love this joke, it is useful in so many situations. It’s from the comedy album You Don’t Have to be Jewish, which my parents had when I was a child, and which my siblings and I listened to to the extent that I still have portions of it memorized.
Woman 1: What a beautiful diamond!
Woman 2: Thank you. It’s actually a famous diamond. It’s “the Plotnik Diamond.” And it comes with a curse, the famous “Plotnik Curse.”
W1: Really? Sounds intriguing! What’s the Plotnik Curse?
W2: Mister Plotnik.
I used to call my step-father’s boat the Plotnik Boat because you couldn’t enjoy the boatride without his company. A thousand and one uses, that joke.
I b’lieve #6 is “American History X.” One of too few films with Avery Brooks.
# 3 Dead Man Walking
…aaaaand Barbs comes in for the clean-up.
There was a nun in the ’70s quiz too. Just sayin.
But I skipped the 80s. Not even a rabbi in the 80s.