Heidi's gay-man-in-straight-woman's-body Top 10 Musicals:

1 - Singin' in the Rain
2 - Mary Poppins
3 - West Side Story
4 - The Little Mermaid
5 - The Wizard of Oz
6 - The Sound of Music
7 - All That Jazz
8 - Duck Soup
9 - Oklahoma
10 - Velvet Goldmine

Runner-ups might include Cabaret, Once (too soon to tell on that one for me), Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade, but decidedly NOT Seven/Seven. I can't make my way through it!

By the way, as I was researching that list, I discovered that Aaron Sorkin, of all people, is adapting Sondheim's Follies for film, due 2009. Weird!

People...

Nathan Detroit, Sky Masterson, Nicely Nicely and the Guys of the Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York are protesting their exclusion from any musical list: straight, gay or other.

The Dolls too.

This I cannot allow.

I never did like Fantasia, but I'm willing to accept that I'm alone on that one. But Shrek? I think it relies on too many pop culture references to stay funny forever.

I concur! (and will refrain from quoting the hell outta that film :) )

What? No Goonies? No Clash of the Titans? ;)

I'd say that's true of its sequels, but what the original references a thousand times more often than modern pop culture is classical age storybook tales. And so I think it will remain as timeless as those.










As for not liking Fantasia .... well, I hope you end up in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead. ;)

Perhaps, but war films are one of the most significant and well-defined genres throughout the history of film. To leave them off this list is ludicrous.

I agree with Tom.
And I love Stripes.

Amamzingly, I've seen everything on the original list GC published, except, Jerry Maguire (I've seen endless clips of show me the money, does that count?)

I retired my AFI membership this year, I think the AFI is really just full of BS. I know they do good, the Silver Theater in Silver Spring shows some good films, and they are so full of themselves. These endless lists are irritating me beyond measure, especially when the AFI voters list absolute crap on the top of the heap.

Okay, how did I get infected with the curmudgeon?