This is weird. I was trying to figure out what I had in draft for my blog, nearly 300 posts. I discovered this one from 2011 (!), and I can’t see that I ever published it. From SamuraiFrog, and only one answer has changed:
1st Dracula Movie: Not sure – it would have been on TV one Saturday afternoon, but I believe it was the Bela Lugosi version.
1st Disney Movie: 101 Dalmatians, which features a character named Roger.
1st movie I saw without my parents: The first movie I ever saw alone, without my parents or friends or anyone, was a double feature of a Francis the Talking Mule picture and something called The Leech Woman, a movie that absolutely terrified me, as I’ve noted.
1st movie I had to stand in a long line for: Quite possibly the original Star Wars movie. But even a longer line for Pretty Woman.
1st movie I saw with a girl: I really can’t remember. I know I saw The Great White Hope with my high school girlfriend, but her father came along. It might have been Catch-22.
1st James Bond movie: Certainly on TV, probably Goldfinger.
1st adult date movie: I’ll say Rosemary’s Baby, my freshman year in college.
1st X-Rated film: It was either Midnight Cowboy or A Clockwork Orange, depending on whether the former had been edited down to R.
1st Marx Brothers film: Duck Soup.
1st movie on videotape: Annie Hall or Being There.
1st animated feature film: Again, 101 spotty dogs.
1st favorite film star: Sophia Loren, before I ever saw her in anything.
1st film star I got an autograph from: If I ever have, I don’t recall.
1st film star I saw in person: Jack Nicholson, hanging out backstage with Mike Tyson after an Anita Baker concert at the Palace Theatre in Albany c 1989.
1st WC Fields film: I saw several in my youth, but they tended to run into each other in my memory.
1st M-rated film: The Night They Raided Minsky’s. M, BTW, became PG.
1st R-rated film: Catch-22. It traumatized me for a while.
1st movie on DVD: I had so few movies on DVD in 2011. TV shows, yes. My wife bought me West Side Story. I bought her Whale Rider and Dreamgirls. The only one I bought for me was a 2-pack of the first two Spider-Man movies, which I got from a library sale in 2010.
1st blaxpoitation film: Have I ever seen one?
1st martial arts film: I’ve seen a couple on local TV but I never knew the name of any of them.
1st screwball comedy: Depends what you consider screwball, I suppose. Is Adam’s Rib a screwball comedy? I guess I’ll say The Philadelphia Story.
1st Cary Grant film: The Philadelphia Story.
1st Clint Eastwood film: probably Every Which Way But Loose.
1st favorite actress: Barbara (Seagull) Hershey.
1st favorite movie song: “Cruella de Ville” from 101 canines.
1st favorite movie cowboy: Roy Rogers, though I knew him more from TV.
