Casual Sex with Lea Thompson!
Lea Thompson is 47 years old today! That means time is running out for me and her to ditch our spouses and flee to the Florida Keys where we'll spend the rest of lives swinging in hammocks, drinking Red Stripe beer and watching her old movies on DVD.
That's a fairly tall order, since she's married to Some Kind of Wonderful director Howard Deutch, and I'm married to Jennifer Jason Leigh. But Jennifer and Howie will understand. I mean, true love cannot be denied, right?
TOP 5 LEA THOMPSON MOVIES FROM THE '80s:
5. Space Camp (1986): "In space, anything is possible."
4. Casual Sex? (1988): "It was the early eighties, and sex was still a good way to meet new people."
3. Red Dawn (1984): "I'll never love anybody again!"
2. Back to the Future (1985): "That is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear."
1. Some Kind of Wonderful (1987): "I'd rather be with someone for the wrong reasons then alone for the right."
(Now, I know a lot of people are going to scream and say, 'Where's 'All The Right Moves?' And you're right, great flick! But I can't stand to watch her and Tom Cruise naked together, especially after that falling out Tom and I had over Nicole. So I'm sticking with Space Camp for the No. 5 spot.)
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No! No! No! I still have those 'dreams' about her and CT-S and I sharing, um, well, moments...
She can't be that old... next you'll be telling me that Courtney Thorne Smith is 39 and I'm 38.... uh, wait... I guess I did just turn 38 yesterday....
Crap... at least in films they are still young and perky... while when I look in the mirror, I'm... well... 38.
Posted by: grandllama | May 31, 2007 at 07:47 PM
You're an idiot
All The Right moves is the best scene with Tom.
Pff , your reason sucks; are you 16?
get lost.
Posted by: hannah | May 31, 2007 at 08:43 PM
Am I 16? That's the best one yet. Thanks, Hannah.
Actually, it's very difficult to find a memorable line from Lea in All The Right Moves. She's great and all, but that's really a movie for Tom and Chris Penn.
Posted by: Spears | May 31, 2007 at 09:26 PM
Happy Birthday Lea!
I didn't think she was that much older than me (I'm 40).
Posted by: Karen | June 01, 2007 at 04:16 AM
You apparently forgot 'Howard The Duck'. ;)
/I actually liked that movie
//I liked her in that movie
Posted by: Krantzstone | June 01, 2007 at 06:32 AM
Space Camp - nice! Didn't that also star Joaquin Phoenix when he was called Leaf Phoenix?
Posted by: Pam | June 01, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Yeah Steve, where's the love for Howard the Duck??? That almost-sex scene in it is, dare I say, a classic.
Posted by: Marie-Elaine | June 01, 2007 at 02:59 PM
The Master of Quack Fu! How many movies do you know that co-star Jeffery Jones and Tim Robbins??
Posted by: Douglas Arthur | June 01, 2007 at 04:40 PM
I'm saving "Howard the Duck" for something really special. Not sure exactly what yet -- a whole podcast episode? Maybe...
Posted by: Steve Spears | June 01, 2007 at 06:02 PM
>I'm saving "Howard the Duck" for
>something really special. Not sure
>exactly what yet -- a whole podcast
>episode? Maybe...
I. LOVE. YOU. (But I love Sean more... :P)
Posted by: Marie-Elaine | June 04, 2007 at 11:31 AM