Want to know the best Joel Hirschhorn movies? How about the worst Joel Hirschhorn movies? Curious about Joel Hirschhorn box office grosses or which Joel Hirschhorn movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Joel Hirschhorn movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Joel Hirschhorn (1937-2005) was a two-time Oscar® winning American singer, composer and writer. Hirschhorn’s songs sold more than 90 million records. Various artists including Elvis Presley, recorded his songs…and Hollywood is still using his work in current movies. His IMDb page shows over 80 credits from 1966-2017. This page will rank Joel Hirschhorn movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.
Drivel Part 1: Why a Joel Hirschhorn UMR page? Well….his book….Rating the Movie Stars…is one of the most influential books on this website. Published in 1983, it is a book I have been referencing for almost 40 years. In that book, Hirschhorn, rated every movie that a movie star appeared in during their career. Sometime in 2010, for the millionth time I was looking at his book when I wondered; had he updated his ratings lately? A quick internet check provided the sad news that Mr. Hirchhorn had passed away in 2005. About a month later, I thought I could update the ratings….tunrs out those were the first baby steps of UMR.
Drivel Part 2: This page is from a request from Bob. Bob has been requesting a Joel Hirschhorn page for almost 2 years now. Constantly filling up our request page…with Hirschhorn requests….day after day. Well Bob….finally your Hirsch page is here….hope it was worth the wait…lol.
Joel Hirschhorn Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Joel Hirschhorn Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Joel Hirschhorn movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Joel Hirschhorn movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Joel Hirschhorn movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Joel Hirschhorn movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Joel Hirschhorn movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Joel Hirschhorn movie won.
- Sort Joel Hirschhorn movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Joel Hirschhorn Table
- Five Joel Hirschhorn movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 22.72% of his movies listed. The Towering Inferno (1974) was his biggest box office hit when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross.
- An average Joel Hirschhorn movie grosses $91.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 14 Joel Hirschhorn movies are rated as good movies…or 46.80% of his movies. The Ice Storm (1997) is his highest rated movie while The Fat Spy (1969) was his lowest rated movie.
- Three Joel Hirschhorn movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 13.63% of his movies.
- Two Joel Hirschhorn movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 9.09% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 8 Joel Hirschhorn movies scored higher than that average….or 36.36% of his movies. The Towering Inferno (1974) got the the highest UMR Score while The Fat Spy (1969) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Joel Hirschhorn
1. Joel Hirschhorn was born in Bronx, New York in 1937.
2. After graduating from Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts, he became a regular performer on New York’s nightclub circuit, both as a solo singer and as a member of the rock & roll band, The Highlighters.
3. During the mid-1960s, Hirschhorn branched out into writing film soundtracks. The results were horrible. 1969’s The Fat Spy is considered to be one of the worst movies ever made.
4. Joel Hirschhorn’s The Fat Spy (1969) is the 11th worst movie in our UMR 36,000 plus movie database.
5. Joel Hirschhorn worked with songwriting partner Al Kasha from the 1960s until the late 1990s.
6. Joel Hirschhorn (and Al Kasha) were nominated for four Oscars® and four Golden Globes®. They won Oscars® for 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure and 1974’s The Towering Inferno. They received two Oscar® nominations for 1977’s Pete’s Dragon.
7. Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha also worked together on Broadway musicals, receiving Tony Award® for Best Original Score nominations for both Copperfield and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
8. Joel Hirschhorn the book author. Besides his book RatingThe Movie Stars, Hirschhorn also wrote 2001’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Songwriting.
9. *Joel Hirschhorn’s Bette Davis story: “Star quality is difficult to define, but my personal definition was formed after a lunch with Bette Davis. At the time (1972), Davis was to appear in the musical “Copperfield,” which I had co-written with Al Kasha. Al and I went to the Bel Air Hotel to play the score for her. She was a petite, almost delicated woman, but there was nothing timid about her direct gaze, and authoritative speaking voice. We need a piano and the empty dining room didn’t have one, so she told a work-man, “We must have a piano immediately.” She wasn’t rude, but her firmness brooked no argument. The piano materialized in seconds. She applauded after we performed the songs, and I modestly ventured that “We had a lot of help from Dickens.” She responded, “Yes, but look what you did with him!” Her conviction made me feel we were on par with Dickens, that he was lucky to have us as collaborators! She had wit, intelligence, force, charm, vulerability – but most of all, a highly charge belief in herself, in her ability to dominate. The performer who has this belief and this assured, takeover quality can make film vehicles timeless.”
10. Check out Joel Hirschhorn’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time
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*Bette Davis story comes from Hirschhorn’s Rating The Movie Stars book.
Joel shows up at about 45 seconds.
HOWDY AGAIN PARD JOEL Been reading over your comments to Pappy who said “Now we know what NOT to expect those people and movies to be like. If that Joel guy told me it was raining I’d look out the window before reaching for my umbrella.”
You, that Work Horse fella, your sidekick Cogerson, and I are becoming kinda linked up as a foursome on this site but I don’t mind as I know that some of my fans think that my persona is at times too serious what with rounding up the bad guys, whipping the *** off the commies and fighting wars to save America. My fans see me as such a seriously dedicated guy that they know that if it had been necessary I’d have dug the Panama Canal single-handed for the American people in my movies.
So I had been trying to think of ways to show my fans the more chilled-out fun-loving me and when I spotted the miniature of Clark clowning around with The Three Stooges I thought ‘Hey I could maybe lark about like that if I got some stooges of my own.”
Tell your sidekick to pass on my regards to that very nice gal of his who I think would like to be Wonder Woman. No harm in that as I think that the Lensman guy would like to be Big Chuck, the Flora dame wishes she were Greg Peck, the Phil person really wanted to be born that a** **** McQueen and your sidekick Bruce wanted to be born as triplets who turned out to be Cary, Maurice and John[ McClane.
Best wishes, your saddle-mate DUKE.”
Howdy Dukey,
I’m not sure why you have the impression that I want to be Steve McQueen. I mean, in my youth, I did shoot out some Mexican bandits, played a few hands of poker, sailed down the Yangtsee, raced through the streets of L.A., and escaped from Devil’s Island, but that was just for fun….hold on, let me get my baseball….
Sounds like you’re out on some misguided commie witchunt again Dukey, but since you brought up Mr. Hirschhom one more time, let me try to settle this lingering controversy by kindly asking Cogerson what Joel had to say about Steve McQueen and his choice of best McQueen performances. With this information, I will be able to tell you if Hirch is the real McCoy as Bruce believes or the shameless charlatan you describe. Better yet, if I can eventually have the same for Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and James Garner, three other great stars I humbly believe to have some expertise on, my verdict will be even more just and unequivocal 🙂
HI PHIL
1 According to Hirschhorn’s sidekick Cogerson the little weasel had an entire committee helping him write that book so I’m sure that the other “committee Members” produced some good stuff and you therefore may be pleased with the result in your own case. Aw shucks even that book couldn’t have got EVERYTHING wrong. .
2 I’ve received enough fan worship in my time to know from your posts that you idolise McQueen just as its obvious that that Mrs Robinson woman drools over Greg and she would therefore be perfectly entitled to want to be him for at least a day. We all daydream about being someone else from time to time and for example when I’m temporarily tired of being America’s greatest movie hero ever I pretend I’m Paul Newman.
3 When I AM Paul there’s none of that fancy compromise billing. YOU can argue till the cows come home that McQ’s bigger than Newman but he’s certainly not as big as ME and I don’t share billing except with Jimmy because he’s a REAL Legend and what’s more a Real American Did you ever see The FBI STORY where he used big nets to capture the commies in whole gangs?
4 I’ve already said that the Work Horse critter would probably like to be Grant/Micklewhite/Willis for just a change and I’m sure that if he were a broad he’d wanna be that B list woman that he thinks is the greatest female box office star ever.Has he never seen a Joan Crawford picture? In an E mail the Bawwb critter tells me that he would all things being equal wanna be one of his 2 top idols my old Alamo pal Dickie Widmark or Greg Peck but he wouldn’t wanna fight the Robinson woman for Peck’s ID and as anyway Bawwb is not tall he would probably settle another of his Top 5 idols Little Alan.
5 The only one of you guys and gals I’m not sure of is that galoot who produces all those great posters because although it seems clear he worships the ground that Chuck walks on our poster guy is English and Pappy says you never can tell with them because they don’t look at things the way we do. Look at the way a lot of them make fun of our President for example.
6 I have long admired the innovative ideas that his site comes up with to involve it regulars in its actual projects as well as making comments and I’m surprised that that nice W o C gal who seems to be the REAL brains behind the site hasn’t launched a quiz that asks viewers
what movie stars they would like to be if they could be someone else for a day. We’ d maybe get some surprising answers though I’d anticipate that most of those who love their country would wanna be me. Fun exchanging posts with you Phil McQueen DUKEY – I like your pet nickname for me
I’m sorry to disappoint you Dukey, but I was just joking about wanting to be McQueen. I mean I like him as an actor but I would never want to be him, and unlike some other dreamers like that Bawb fellow, I’m afraid I do not idolize movie stars, not even powerful manly giants such as yourself. However, if I had to chose, I think I would prefer to be someone handsome, modest and amiable like Gregory Peck or James Garner (I’m sure Flora would not mind giving up being Peck as she may not want to be a man, even for a short period). And none of this Bette Davis stuff about Peck not being able to act. Four academy award nominations in the space of 5 years (1944-1949) and one win (1962) suggest otherwise.
I think this whole McQueen misconception started because I was defending his billing in a movie from an unfair and unwarranted assault. I would have done the same for you Dukey to help you get billed above Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, not because I’m a huge fan of yours, but because I think it would have been justified…and after all, you’re a REAL American too!
HI PHIL n. When I woke up this morning I shouted to Pappy in the next room “Guess what Pappy? It’s Phil again!” And he shouted back “Be careful Duke that he doesn’t suck you into a prolonged debate about one of those crazy obsessions of his like billing that happened years ago and nobody now gives rats *** about..
I can understand Phil you not wanting to be like McQueen away from movies – who would? But I wouldn’t blame anyone for envying him on screen. I’m glad that you would have supported ME if Jimmy had been as silly on the billing issue as McQueen was. However it wasn’t as clear cut at the time of Liberty Valance as it was when the Butch Cassidy thing arose.
Newman undeniably had a better box office record than McQueen at that stage no matter how you rationalise it by manipulating figures [and really I’m surprised that those studio “creative accountants” that Jimmy Coburn complains about haven’t snapped you up.] Conversely if you do a careful analysis of the Cogerson fella’s stats you will see that at the time of Liberty Jimmy and I were in a dead heat with around 8 billion each in adjusted domestic dollars. I edged ahead later as I made more films post 1962. Still wouldn’t likek to live on the difference though as I said in Rio Bravo
True Mr. Cogerson may not have included all those B cowboy movies that I made before I become a star but against that Jimmy has always had a better average gross that me and if those little fellas were included in my stats my average would go down even further.
Indeed the Cogerson critter said to the Bawwb guy when the Liberty billing issue arose some months ago that maybe I should have given way totally to Jimmy because whilst we were both big stars at the time of Liberty Jimmy had had a distinguished military service record. That an unusual criterion to use when ranking stars but I’m certainly not gonna object to it being applied and because he thought of it Pappy and I hereby declare the Bruce hombre a Real American.
Even today the AFI thinks that Jimmy is a greater legend than I am and again I’m not gonna object to a true patriot being ranked above me but I do object to that mumbling Godfather polecat being listed 4th. I mean did those AFI varmints even look at box office figures?– or are they like that posters geek who seems to admire Heston more than he does me ?[the Engllsh!]
Maybe AFI should have done separate lists of box office stars and those considered the best actors. Even then I would NOT put that Mafia loving rat high up on ANY list. I mean look at the way he insulted the American people by refusing as Oscar.
I mean too look at the way he carries on in his movies by for example bawling his eyes out and crying out for “Stelaaaah, StelaaaaH!” like some baby yapping for its mamma. American MEN don’t do that and I’m told Cooper and others got up and walked out of the movie in disgust.
Roundup’s calling and the calves are bawling like that wimp of Stella’s so I must go now but not before I give you some exciting news. As I said in Blood Alley to that commie who turned against his own and backed me “You’ll do!” So whilst I don’t know if you are a Yank or ,like Mr Posters, a Limey if you’re not one of us pappy and I will declare you an Honorary Real American. But have you actually seen the Graduate? I mean Mrs Robinson a man! Come awwwn!
Best wishes from your newfound sidekick and Fellow American DUKEY
As they say in show business, bad publicity is better than no publicity, and thanks to Bob and John Wayne, this Joel Hircshorn guy is sure getting a lot of publicity on this page. While Hirtchhhon may have been somewhat misguided in his comments on the so-called Mr. Mumbles, I do not know of any of critic who always gets it right, and my only real complaint against Mr. Hirchhy is that I find his last name too difficult to spell. So given his apparent influence on the creator of this web site, maybe we should give Hirchborn the benefit of the doubt.
I can understand that one’s first influence on a topic can have a lasting impact, even though with time, we develop a more critical mind as we are influenced by other perspectives and sources of information. I remember that as young lad, I used to spend hours in the library looking through various books on film and I think one of my first influences was Halliwell, both his film guide and his Whos’ Who in the Movies. I initially took Halliwell’s ratings as almost gospel truth but then realized they could be quite off the mark in some cases. Still, Halliwell’s very brief descriptions of actors and directors, their filmographies and identification of their key films in italics are still something I find quite useful. I assume that Bruce is quite aware that, like every-one else, Mr. Hircho is fallible and that his ratings of actors’ movie roles need to sometimes be taken with a grain of salt, but if he indeed has influenced this web site, it’s only fair that he be given his web page and provide his thoughts once in a while 🙂
HI PHIL
1 Very accurate and articulate analysis and conclusions in keeping with what I’ve come to expect from you.
2 I always like to see a distinction between genuine critical opinion and bias. For example many people who criticise the Duke do so because of a dislike of his politics perceived as ultra “right wing” though it should be pointed out that he was well liked by his friend Kirk Douglas for example who would not have shared the Duke’s political views. Mr Mumbles is a perceived ‘lefty’ because of his civil rights stance etc and I always felt that that was why Cagney detested him even though to the best of knowledge Jimmy and ole Mumbles had little or nothing to do with each other in everyday life. Conversely Chuck Heston, generally conservative in political ideals was a very warm friend of the mumbling one and joined him in civil rights protest.
3 I neither know nor care about Joel’s politics but as he savaged BOTH the Duke and Mumbles it could not be realistically argued he had a political axe to grind [unless he thought they were both too ‘extreme’ in their different ways] so on balance I think that his dislike of them and/or their movies was genuinely professional and as the saying goes I would “defend to the death” his right to say what he did about Duke and Mr M .
4 I would also agree with your final conclusion about his entitlement to a page on this sight and Bruce’s right to bring him on. After all isn’t that what they do with dinosaurs – dig them up and put them on display!
CORRECTION
A I have already mentioned the intrusion of Joel in my movie world is perhaps driving me slightly mad because in my previous post I said sight instead of site though the Work Horse might well conclude that it was nevertheless an appropriate slip of the pen as Joel had great “insight.” Johnny Carson apparently once said when you’ve made a boob get in first and crack a “funny”!
Hey Bob….here is a You Tube video of Joel’s Oscar winning song…The Morning After….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c I figure you could download and have it play every time you are on the internet….that way you and Joel could bond a little more….drink the kool-aid….and see things the right way….lol.
Seriously…your comments are 99.5% error free….so I think you can forgiven for a slight error. Goodness knows we make a ton of them….turns out we made 5 on the Peter Falk page alone…so disappointed in ourselves….then agan WoC had nothing to do with it….they were all my mistakes.
Hey Bob…added benefit…if you let the video to run….it will go to Joel song from The Towering Inferno…back to back Joel songs.
FYI. Joel in the air. Yesterday I picked up the John Oates autobiography…and on the book flap it was saying that Hall and Oates had sold 60 million records….my first thought was…Joel sold 90 million records…..I had no idea Joel had sold so many records…..50% more than Hall and Oates….pretty amazing.
Hey Bob…good thoughts on Phil’s comment. Here is a thought..that you might not have considered…..Joel and 10 Consumer Report writers helped put Rating The Movie Stars book together….maybe Joel was a huge Brando fan and the 10 Consumer Report writers (Richard B., Randy D., Scott L., Darrell M., Harvey N., Richard P., Rich P., Rob P, Barbara S. and Ron T.) surrounded him…kept him from food and water until he finally saw it there way…and gave Brando such a poor overall rating….lol.
I have no idea…which way Joel leaned when it comes to politics..but I would wager it would be more liberal…..so I would think Brando would be a shining star…while Wayne would be someone not to trust. Though Wayne’s 80 B movies were the main reason for Wayne’s low rating.
Digging up dinosaurs is how we learn….so I am glad Joel has been dug up….lol. Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE
1 You have in fact described the put-together of Joel’s book in a way that is often used to deride someone. For example one left-wing politician who didn’t like the Conservative Winston Churchill replied when asked about the literary and historical value of Churchill’s multi-volume History of the English Speaking Peoples “I didn’t think much of his books which obviously were written by a COMMITTEE.”
2 I did though like how you came back at me about my dinosaur quip and it reminds me of an occasion when President Richard Nixon was in the middle of a state dinner and was interrupted at the table by an aide who gave him bad news about a setback for Nixon by his political enemies.and Tricky Dickey jumped up food spewing from his mouth and shouted at the aide “I’ve told you before you don’t take that lying down. You get back at them and jump all over them!”
Hey Bob….good mentions of Churchill and Nixon….your vast knowledge allows such good examples of comparing movies to non-movie situations. Entertaining and educating!
Hey Phil….thanks for checking out our Phil page. Lol….yep Bob has done a great job of keeping Joel’s name alive. I would be the first one to point out that Joel’s rating system is flawed…I think even the greatest Brando detractor would question him being ranked 357th of 410 stars in the book. And John Wayne in 371st place?…..that is equally crazy. But his idea of ranking every single performance an actor or actress made was a great idea. Even today…I think only a few websites try and do the same thing….UMR and Ranker come to mind. But I rarely find every single movie they made…due to lack of box office.
I have read Halliwell books for years too….yet strangely I have never bought one. Glad to see you mention the library….back in our youths…the library was the internet. Little Cogerson would read any book even remotely associated with movies. I realized almost immediately that his rankings were not the gospel truth….the Wayne ranking….even with him including every B western he made…was the key to that….but if you look at the movies Joel and his team (he had 10 Consumer Reports writers helping) picked out as his best movies….you find that they did in fact pull out almost all of the great Wayne movies.
In the future…Joel will get some of his thoughts shared in comments….but can’t think he will every get as much attention that he got by getting his very own UMR page. Thanks for the feedback.
THE SATURDAY ESSAY: – JOEL
1 Looking back over some of the recent outstanding posts on the site I can understand where Tamrah and Stein HOF are coming from as it must have been quite mystifying for many viewers for Hirsch whom few if anyone had heard of before to suddenly keep popping up all over this site and worshipped, like some powerful dark God from H P Lovecraft’ such as the Great Cthulhu or his grandfather Yog-Sothoth, or marvelled at as if the 8th Wonder of the World had suddenly been discovered by archaeologists.
2 Certainly Joel in the way he is described and quoted by the Work Horse seems almost too good to have ever been true and Bern could be forgiven for thinking he was in all the Work Horse’s imagination.
3 The latter would be understandable as hard and over- work like Bruce’s can definitely start to affect your sanity Indeed Hirsch and his oft-repeated opinions and utterances has now become almost too much for me to bear and may be driving me a little mad because last night I dreamt he was still alive and kicking and writing his madcap critiques and I awoke feeling strangely nervous-
“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
4 So to calm myself I got up and watched a repeat of a Twilight Zone episode.
Bob, your post made me laugh. And that’s one of my favorite poems too. You dared mention the unmentionable, no not Joel, ‘Cthulhu’, Lovecraft’s infamous monster. I wrote an article on H.P. Lovecraft and his fictional grimoire The Necronomicon a few years ago. I was an avid horror (and sci-fi) reader when I was a wee lad.
“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming…”
STEVE
1 Small world you knowing what you do and i would have bet that anybody who read my post would have been as mystified about who Cthulhu was as many apparently are about the identity of Hirsch.
2 My 11 year old grandson though who is heavily into the Gods of Greek myth and fiction is familiar with Cthulhu but didn’t know Yog was his grandfather so I was pleased with myself when I was able to enlighten him.
3 If you google those two monsters on Wikipedia you will see reproductions of drawings by Lovecraft of what they were supposed to look like.
STEVE
I meant to say that anyone wanting to see Cthulhu and Yog Sothoth on the screen can look out for the 1970 cinematic release of The Dunwich Horror starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell or the more recent 2009 TV movie which Stockwell was in as well.. Here are what Wiki and IMDB have to say about the movie and short story on which it was based. I wonder did Joel come through the portal mentioned in the review.
“The Dunwich Horror” is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. “The Dunwich Horror” is one of the few tales Lovecraft wrote wherein the heroes successfully defeat the antagonistic entity,
In Louisiana, the thirty-five year old single mother Lavina delivers a baby boy and a monster in the evil Whateley House. Ten years later, Dr. Henry Armitage and his assistant Professor Fay Morgan discover that the page 751 of every copy of the Necronomicon is missing and The Black Brotherhood has summoned the gate keeper Yog Sothoth to leave the portal opened to the demons and ancient gods. They invite the arrogant and skeptical Professor Walter Rice that can translate the Necronomicon to help them to seek the book. Meanwhile Lavina’s son Wilbur Whateley ages very fast and seeks the missing page to open the portal”
Bob, your post is prophetic, it’s like you’re reading my mind, I mean what are the odds?. Monday’s video… 😉
I have The Dunwich Horror on DVD though it’s been a while since I last watched it. There was a Vincent Price movie based on a Lovecraft story – The Haunted Palace – though the posters tried to make it look like a Poe adaptation.
Hey Bob and Steve…..good conversation between the two of you….and doing it on Joel’s page….somewhere he is smiling as he sees that at least a few people either remember him or are discovering him….lol.
Happy Anniversary Bruce and WoC! Enjoy your UMR break! No summer for us here in Manchester, it’s been raining buckets here in the wetlands.
Did the card have a watering mark? 😉
You’ve got me in the mood to watch American Psycho again, that role suited Bale so well. And he was near enough the same character in the remake of Shaft. Chris Nolan rescued him from being typecast as the psycho yuppie from hell.
Hey Steve…thanks for the anniversary wishes. No watering mark on business card. But they are still cool. It is becoming apparent we need a UMR logo. I will add it to the list of things to do.
I agree the attached you tube makes me want to watch American Psycho too. Hip to be Square….lol.
“Bob wishes he’d go away
but it looks like Joel is here to stay.”
Hey Bob, I can create my own poems, beat that! 🙂
I’d never even heard of this geezer before a few weeks ago but he did win Oscars for two of my favorite disaster movies so I shouldn’t complain.
Bruce even found a video of Hirschhorn winning his Oscar, good work amigo. How many videos does Youtube contain? Jeezus! Well over a thousand of mine are residing there. Amazing site.
Let’s see I’ve seen 7 of the 22 films listed here. My favorites are – The Towering Adventure and The Poseidon Inferno.
A nice tribute to the author of one of your favorite movie books Bruce.
Btw what did um Joel think of Charlton ‘Ben-Hur’ Heston I dare ask? I promise I won’t get ANGRY! [bites fist] 😉
Hey Steve
1. I like the poem. You are a poet and did not even know it.
2. As I have said before…Joel has been a part of these pages the whole time…just decided to pull back the curtain and show Joel.
3. You Tube will eventually have every thing ever made….I think it is close now….lol. I have watched that video a few times…and I am not sure which one Joel is. I thought he was the 2nd winner….but at the end it sounds like he says something like….two proud people in New York Mr. and Mrs….and it sounds like Kasha (his writing partner’s last name)….which would mean Joel is the first one…..but I could have heard it wrong…so I just do not know.
4. So you have seen 7 of his movies…..I am at 13…..I think I even saw The North Avenue Irregulars at the theater….it was a Disney movie….and my grandma took me to every Disney movie.
5. I know Bob will be shocked….but I did not bring Joel’s Rating The Movie Star book to the beach….so I can not answer your Heston question right now….but I will when we get back home. I would be shocked if he did not give Chuck 4 stars for Ben-Hur.
6. Today is WoC and my anniversary…..so we are chilling at the beach with the little ones….life is sweet. Speaking of WoC…she gave me some UMR business cards for our anniversary….they are equally sweet…..UMR now has bumper stickers and business cards….we are becoming big time…lol.
Thanks for the feedback.
Hey Steve…..as I was checking out my anniversary UMR business cards from WoC…I felt like Christian Bale in American Psycho in the pretty famous business card scene….as I liked the texture of the card….and of course You Tube has that scene….lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY
The fact that WoC can find that American Psycho scene…and attach it to this comment…while we sit on the beach…..is freaking incredible…..I remember when knowing where the nearest pay phone was located is the most important thing when you were away from home….I wonder what the beach will be like in 50 years?
Happy anniversary to The Queen and the Prime Minister
Thanks Bob….it has been a good day indeed. Our day is quickly running out…before our Samantha takes over tomorrow as she celebrates her 11th birthday. We are taking 12 pre-teen little girls to The Dark Tower…..ok….it is the Emoji movie and it’s 6% Rotten Tomatoe score tomorrow.
HI BRUCE
! You have been so busy of late and flitting about so often that I was thinking of beginning future posts that I address direct to you with “Hello! Is anyone there?”
2 Certainly you deserve the break and am glad that you can intertwine it with family pleasures and it’s good to know all went well and you enjoyed yourself
Hey Steve. Back from beach but now on pool duty….man is my life hard…..lol. No rain here.
Ok….if an alien visited Earth and asked Joel to name the best Charlton Heston movies…..these would be his 4 star Heston performances.
The Greatest Show on Earth
Ruby Gentry
The Ten Commandments
Touch of Evil
The Big Country
Ben Hur
Will Penny
A good list to start with.
HI STEVE:
1 So Joel is “here to stay”
2 That is not always the best prospect for the Bible says “The poor you will always have with you but you will not always have me” [Matthew 26:11]
Oh Bob….one day you will appreciate the almighty Joel…..lol. He gave me a brain, Steve courage and John a heart….and I am sure if you ask he will grant you a wish too before he goes away in his hot air balloon…..lol.