POSTED December 29 2012
Happy New Year: Post your favorite NYE clip
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in “That Hamilton Woman”
Some love the New Year’s Eve in Trading Places, with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd and orange juice futures and gorillas on an Amtrak train. Others prefer Billy Crystal’s declaration to Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally… Still others like the millennial festivity shared by Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett in Strange Days or the Greenwich Village bohemians and uptown squares in Bell, Book and Candle.
I love this sequence with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in That Hamilton Woman. (he’s Lord Nelson, she’s Emma, Lady Hamilton). The key sequence runs from about 2:00 to 3:30.
Nominate and/or post your favorite New Year’s sequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHB0huQ-BU
The final scene in “The Apartment.” MacLaine to Lemmon on New Year’s Eve, after he professes his love for her : “Shut up and deal.”
I have to go with RICH AND FAMOUS on this one. A very bad film, perhaps, but it’s unintentionally funny dialogue makes me smile. The New Year’s Eve scene has serious Jacqueline Bisset’s character asking her best friend, played by a brassy Candice Bergen, for a kiss that night. “I want to feel the press of human flesh, and you’re the only flesh around.” Bergen replies: “After all these years, are you trying to tell me there is something strange about you?” It was George Cukor’s last film, sadly.
‘The Poseidon Adventure.’ If it takes a tsunami to muzzle Carol Lynley/Maureen McGovern, then so be it.