Moon and Astronaut Teapot

A couple of weeks ago, there was an article on Slate, where the author had assembled a list of books that sequentially counted up to 101. Since then, I’ve tried to go back to Slate and find that article again, but to no avail. Instead, I decided to replicate that feat, substituting movies and an occasional TV show for the original book list. I’m not as ambitious as the original author, so I only counted up to fifty. Like the other list, I chose One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to start with. The other author was also strict in adhering to the rule that each iteration’s number be at the beginning of the tittle. I started off that way, but decided to eventually deviate from this rule, choosing more notable titles over less well-known ones that happened to conform better. The black text movies are ones that I’ve seen, while the grey text ones are just fillers. Apollo 13 relates to the teapot photo above, from the Science Center and also Anne’s day today.

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. 2 Seconds
3. Three Musketeers
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral
5. Five Easy Pieces
6. Six Degrees of Separation
7. Seven Year Itch
8. Eight Men Out
9. Nine to Five
10. 10
11. Ocean’s Eleven
12. Twelve Angry Men
13. Apollo 13
14. Fourteen Hours
15. 15 Minutes
16. Sixteen Candles
17. Stalag 17
18. Eighteen and Anxious
19. Nineteen Eighty-Four
20. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
21. 21 Jump Street
22.  Catch-22
23. 23 Minutes to Sunrise
24. 24
25. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
26. Special 26
27. 27 Dresses
28. 28 Days Later…
29. 29 Palms
30. 30 Rock
31. 31 North 62 East
32. West 32nd
33. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
34. Miracle on 34th Street
35. 35 Shots of Rum
36. 36th Precinct
37. To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
38. Colt 38 Special Squad
39. 39 Steps
40. 40 Year Old Virgin
41. 41
42. Summer of ’42
43. Movie 43
44. Class of ’44
45. Colt .45
46. Code 46
47. 47 Ronin
48. 48 Hours
49. 49th Parallel
50. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Anne and Joanie went to the circus today, Circus Flora, which is based here in Saint Louis. Every year, Circus Flora has a story that ties together its various circus acts. This works much like with musicals, whose threadbare plots are only just strong enough to tie together the shows various musical numbers. This year’s story is based on of the 1902 Georges Méliès film, A Trip to the Moon. Its most memorable sequence is a shot of the Man in the Moon, or at least a man in a coconut creme pie, getting socked in the eye, by a spaceship from Earth. Sorry Georges, I couldn’t include your title in the list, because there were no numbers in it. So, I substituted Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 instead.