Practically Everything Leaves Me Totally Cold...

The only exception I know is the case of these sublimely Romantic Movies:

It Happened One Night (1934) - And history was made, in this Academy Award-winning showcase that put its two stars and Frank Capra on the map.

The Lady Eve (1941) - I've blogged about this one previously. Jack Nicholson's favorite movie (or so I've heard).

My Brilliant Career (1979) - Judy Davis purportedly dislikes her peformance in this movie. But since when is an artist the best judge of her own work?

Manhattan (1979) - A Valentine to New York City.

The More the Merrier (1943) - In which Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur meet cute - and stay that way.

My Night at Maud's (1969) - Actually anything directed by Eric Rohmer would qualify as sublimely romantic.

Roman Holiday (1953) - Ditto anything starring Audrey Hepburn.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - In which Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart make beautiful music together. Yards better than the sequels (You've Got Mail and In the Good Old Summertime).

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - The original, a gorgeous confection, starring Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen, two of the most glamorous people alive (at least at the time).

To Catch a Thief (1955) - Cary Grant/Grace Kelly/the French Riviera - need I say more?

My Favorite TV Sitcom Theme Songs

• The Beverly Hillbillies ("...black gold, Texas tea...")
  
• The Brady Bunch ("...that's the way they all became the Brady Bunch...")
• Cheers ("...sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name...")
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father ("People let me tell you 'bout my best friend...")
• Gilligan's Island ("...the Professor and Mary Ann...")
• Green Acres ("...dah-ling I love you, but give me Park Avenue...")
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Who can turn the world on with her smile?")
• Petticoat Junction ("...there's Uncle Joe, he's-a movin' kind of slow at the junction...")
• That Girl ("Diamonds, daisies, snowflakes...")
• The Sopranos (Not technically a sitcom, but a heckuva theme!)

....And My Most Favorite Sitcoms, EVER

On the eve of the Emmys:

• Absolutely Fabulous ("Lacroix, Darling!")
  
• Arrested Development
• As Time Goes By
• The Larry Sanders Show
  
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Office (American version)
• Seinfeld
• Sex and the City
• Third Rock from the Sun
• To the Manor Born

I read dead people, continued

Thanks to the Disorganized Librarian for suggesting I use the above phrase for a title. Am now currently wending my way through Iris Murdoch's first novel Under the Net (c1954), about a charming slacker, Jake Donaghue, who gets into all sorts of (mis)adventures; and Mansfield Park, another of Jane Austen's greatest hits. As you know, Jane is Jo Rowling's favorite writer, and a seminal influence on many an esteemed scribe.