For many years I had no idea what movie Wendy was watching in THE SHINING. Then I saw SUMMER OF '42....Marvelous donuts! Would you like some? How do you take your coffee?
every teenagers fantasy at some point. Had a huge crush on one of my friends mother. Told me she went to feed her horses in just a raincoat and wellies. Did it for me.
"Nothing from the first day I saw her, and nothing that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing, for no person I've ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important and less significant."
Oops, it wasn't Timothy Bottoms, "Hermie" was played by Gary Grimes. O'Neill played "Dorothy". Jerry Houser was "Oscy", Oliver Conant was "Benjie". The narrator is also the director, the late Robert Mulligan. The story is true: Herman Raucher was 14, and Dorothy learned her husband was killed in Korea the night before, attending to a wounded man in battle. She took him to bed and disappeared the next morning leaving a note. Many years later, she confessed fearing she had traumatized him.
In my half-century of living and enjoying cinema, this was the first film that showed me how sex could be something transcendentally spiritual, a shared moment of tenderness between two people, one feeling a sense of loss and the other feeling a sense of compassion, and both navigating terrain of trust and impulses new to both of them. The direction respected the dearness of the moment. I've always loved this film. Both Jennifer O'Neill and Timothy Bottoms so well cast.
Good grief... what decent human being wouldn't hold and offer comfort to the lovely young widow in her hour of loneliness and sorrow? Being a hopeless romantic and a big softy, I certainly couldn't have turned away from an adorable "girl next door" beauty with a broken heart and tears in her eyes.
For many years I had no idea what movie Wendy was watching in THE SHINING. Then I saw SUMMER OF '42....Marvelous donuts! Would you like some? How do you take your coffee?
goback3spaces 19 hours ago
So did he slip it to her or what?
zapkvr 23 hours ago
lucky lucky bastard
schoolie 1 week ago
I also have this record. Doesn't "scratch" so match though.
Must say: this was a long time since I've heard this song before.
MultiBert07 1 month ago
that must be a playtex cross your heart bra. Don't make em like that anymore......fortunately. Aubade for me.
smilo996 1 month ago
every teenagers fantasy at some point. Had a huge crush on one of my friends mother. Told me she went to feed her horses in just a raincoat and wellies. Did it for me.
smilo996 1 month ago
I am glad I never put myself in a place like that crazy broad. Horny, selfish mind screwer. I think I would sock her if she did that to my kid.
flupachi 1 month ago
@flupachi Indeed. What kind of a sick freak does this?
zapkvr 23 hours ago
I don't know about you gents and about the music, but it got me excited.
Zippertheslipper 2 months ago
"Nothing from the first day I saw her, and nothing that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing, for no person I've ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important and less significant."
RoboSlater 2 months ago
@RoboSlater And disappears on him without a trace? Yeah that was really nice. Probably messed him up for many years.
calalilygirl 2 months ago
An episode of the 1970s sitcom Happy Days was loosely based upon Summer of '42, with Richie Cunningham befriending a Korean War widow.
RoboSlater 2 months ago
Oops, it wasn't Timothy Bottoms, "Hermie" was played by Gary Grimes. O'Neill played "Dorothy". Jerry Houser was "Oscy", Oliver Conant was "Benjie". The narrator is also the director, the late Robert Mulligan. The story is true: Herman Raucher was 14, and Dorothy learned her husband was killed in Korea the night before, attending to a wounded man in battle. She took him to bed and disappeared the next morning leaving a note. Many years later, she confessed fearing she had traumatized him.
RoboSlater 2 months ago
In my half-century of living and enjoying cinema, this was the first film that showed me how sex could be something transcendentally spiritual, a shared moment of tenderness between two people, one feeling a sense of loss and the other feeling a sense of compassion, and both navigating terrain of trust and impulses new to both of them. The direction respected the dearness of the moment. I've always loved this film. Both Jennifer O'Neill and Timothy Bottoms so well cast.
RoboSlater 2 months ago
Good grief... what decent human being wouldn't hold and offer comfort to the lovely young widow in her hour of loneliness and sorrow? Being a hopeless romantic and a big softy, I certainly couldn't have turned away from an adorable "girl next door" beauty with a broken heart and tears in her eyes.
rsorb61 2 months ago
@rsorb61 If Jennifer O'Neill looks like the girl next door to you, I want to move to your neighborhood.
ttlms 2 months ago
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Would love to have been the victim
MrEmmaclaps 3 months ago
Sorry to be a party pooper but it is statutory rape...
4773266 3 months ago
@4773266 dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
alau18 3 months ago
@alau18 But every straight male teenagers dream....
4773266 3 months ago
@4773266 Oh, yeah. Like you'd a TURNED HER DOWN, fairy dick!
theshadow1932 2 months ago
@theshadow1932 Yes I would...I'm gay.
4773266 2 months ago
Don't we all men wish for a moment like this one??
STEAMWORKER 3 months ago 3
Jennifer O'neill is too much BEAUTIFUL
GIORGIOGEORGE1 3 months ago 2
hi
jabir401 6 months ago
bring back the bullet bra
capatga 6 months ago 4
Incredible movie, incredible theme and incredibly beautiful actress.
grayvicle 8 months ago
@grayvicle You are right.
takemeback2 7 months ago