Top Ten Favorites

[aunt_deen]

1. Favorite Book to Film Adaptation - To Kill a Mockingbird

2. Favorite Family Tradition - Trivial Pursuit on holidays.

3. Favorite Big Band Tune - Up a Lazy River by Si Zentner

4. Favorite Flower - The red rose. Terribly unimaginative, I know.

5. Favorite Shakespeare Sonnet - XXIX

6. Favorite Cheese - Rembrandt gouda

7. Favorite Christmas Carol - O Come

Comments

[misreall]

I have to answer this one -
1. LA Confidential
2. Making Easter breakfast for my mom
3. Take the 'A' Train
4. Lily of the Valley
5. 116 (I know, predictable)
6. Aged, extra sharp cheddar
7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, also by a men's choir
8. Paris, too.
9. Nut brown ale or an ESB
10. Cafe du Monde

[aunt_deen]

I thought of LA Confidential but while I love the movie madly beyond all reason, I did not feel so about the book. The book is excellent and I enjoyed it, but it's not one that I love. So TKaM is the answer.

The other option would have been A Room With a View.

[jehane_writes]

I loved Ellroy's complex book, but it wasn't an easy read, and I thought the movie really made the story accessible. Plus, Spacey! I thought To Kill A Mockingbird was amazing, too, but my vote is for Scorsese's brilliant Age of Innocence, which was the perfect adaptation of my favorite Wharton novel. Runners-up: The English Patient, which I thought improved on the Ondaaje book, and Love in A Time of Cholera.

116 is my favorite too, though 126 is my favorite fannish one, with its slash/cross-gen/fuck-or-perish themes!

Paris is so gorgeous it's unreal - it doesn't seem as if /real people/ live there! I've never been to Florence (or, for that matter, Tuscany), so that's my pick.

[misreall]

I love the Scorsese Age of Innocence, and it is my favorite Wharton, too. I have a weird obsession with stories where the two main characters are in love but can't be together. Shakespeare in Love is another one of those.

I have never seen The English Patient, but it is my mother's favorite film, which is odd, if you know the rest of her taste.

[marymary]

1. A Room With a View
2. Watching White Christmas
3. Wow...Sing, Sing, Sing, I guess. But this is an impossible question for me.
4. Tulip
5. No idea
6. Dubliner
7. O Come, O Come Emanuel (also!)
8. Salzburg, Austria
9. Chardonnay (so boring)
10. Hm....I guess really good fancy restaurant coffee.

[misreall]

For number 1 RWV and TKaM are both excellent choices, with TKaM being my number 2. Mostly I picked LAC because of my deep obsession with the movie, and the fact that it seemed unadaptable until it wasn't.

[gatsbyfan]

1. I have no idea. Maybe Emma Thompson's “Sense and Sensibility”.
2. Watching A Christmas Story (You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!)
3. Sing, Sing, Sing
4. Tulips or Orange Lilies
5. No idea
6. Hahaha, um no.
7. Carol of the Bells or Hallelujah Chorus sung choir (blame my days at Trinity for this pick)
8. London
9. Vodka
10. Panera's Hazelnut - I'm addicted.