Bob Hope's Best Movie Line

We were watching 'Alias Jesse James' tonight, filmed in 1959.
DH asked me if Bob Hope was still alive. He died at age 100, in 2003. Always a comedian, when his wife asked him, on his deathbed, where he wanted to be buried, he reportedly said, "Surprise me."

This film with the funny line is older than me, even:

Peer Pressure from Sally Field

There is a raft of favorite movies that we watch over and over when they happen along. The other night we watched the last several minutes of Burt Reynolds and Sallie Fields in 'Smokey and the Bandit.' Just the part from where all the patrolmen in the state are chasing them and Jerry Reed and that dog are leading the way.

We missed the part where Jerry Reed stops and the dog goes swimming in a pond by the side of the road. The last time I was on Highway 54between Fayetteville and Jonesboro, there was a realtor's sign on the property with the pond.

We didn't miss the part with Sally Field smoking a cigarette and making a rude gesture to the patrolman. She's come a long way to where she just takes a pill for her bones once a month, we agreed.

Cary Grant on Growing Old

A yellowed clipping from Dear Abby's newspaper column, in which she published a piece called 'Meditation' as read by Cary Grant, shortened here:

"Now Lord you've known me a long time.... You know that each day I am growing older and some day may even be very old....

"Make me thoughtful, but not moody, helpful but not overbearing.

".... Keep my tongue free from the recital of endless details. Seal my lips on my aches and pains....

"I ask for grace enough to listen to the retelling of others' afflictions.... I would like to have improved memory, but I'll settle for growing humility and an ability to capitulate when my memory clashes with the memory of others.

"Teach me the glorious lesson that on some occasions I may be mistaken. Keep me reasonably kind....

"Please give me the ability to see good in unlikely places and talents in unexpected people. And give me the grace to tell them so, Dear Lord."