Julia, Clint, Me, and the Movies

So the first person I'm going to mention is somebody who was an enormous star, and I have really not talked about her very much at all.

I did an episode at the beginning of the podcast on a film that I really liked, Leave the World Behind.

But that actress would be Julia Roberts, the Oscar winner for Erin Brockovich, and somebody who really hit the scene like a thunderbolt with the movie Death.

Steel Magnolias and before that Mystic Pizza and a film that is ostensibly a Justine Bateman movie it was marketed as Justine Bateman's film it was a movie from 1988 called Satisfaction but now when that film is shown on TV or streaming it stars Julia Roberts and Liam Neeson and not the actual star of the film Justine Bateman because you know that's just the way it goes you have to try to get eyeballs in front of their screens So Julia Roberts, the first film of hers, I did not see Steel Magnolias.

Shelby, Shelby, open your eyes.

Shelby, open your eyes.

Did not see Steel Magnolias in theaters.

And I didn't see Pretty Woman in theaters either.

And I was going to the movies fairly often when I was 16.

1990 was a year I saw, by my standards, more movies than many other years.

I didn't live within walking distance a realistic walking distance.

I ended up walking to the movies later when I was, you know, 17 or 18.

But I really was, I was three miles away from one theater and I was about a mile and a half away from another theater, which was just a one-plex.

So either they were showing the movie you wanted to see or you weren't going there either.

So I did not see Pretty Woman in theaters summer 1990.

I saw Die Hard 2 and I saw Back to the Future 3.

Those were two movies that I for sure saw in the summer of 1990.

Did not see Pretty Woman or Ghost for that matter.

Did not see that.

The first Julia Roberts film I saw in theaters was also Not Dying Young with Campbell Scott.

That was a big hit.

Not a good movie, spoiler alert.

And another one that was a big hit and not a good movie, spoiler alert, Sleeping with the Enemy with, what a great actor, Patrick Bergan.

And he was everywhere in that era.

He had a Robin Hood movie.