In Prepration of Cinco de Mayo

You Are Corona

You don't drink for the love of beer. You drink to get drunk. You prefer a very light, very smooth beer. A beer that's hardly a beer at all. And while you make not like the taste of beer, you like the feeling of being drunk. You drink early and often. Sometimes with friends. Sometimes alone. All the party needs is you!

What's Your Beer Personality?

How Irish Are You

This sounds right ... since I do have a wee bit o'Scot & English in me. But I am mostly Irish.

You're 85% Irish

Congratulations, you're a shining example of an Irish lass (or lad). There's hardly anyone more Irish than you!

How Irish Are You?

The Naaaaaaame Game

Yet another one from Facebook:

The Naaaaaaammmme Gaaaaaaaame

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own post, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real... nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name: Pamela
2. A four Letter Word: Part
3. A boy's Name: Peter
4. A girl's Name: Paulina
5. An occupation: Plumber
6. A color: Purple
7. Something you wear: Pants
8. A food: Peach
9. Something found in the bathroom: Perfume
10. A place: Paris
11. A reason for being late: Puking
12. Something you shout: PLEASE!!!
13. A movie title: Pollyanna
14. Something you drink: Pomegranate juice
15. A musical group: the Police
16. An animal: Puppy
17. A type of car: Pinto
18. A song title: Please Mr. Postman
19. A verb: Pigout

#5 THURSDAY THIRTEEN - 13 More Pictures from Autumn & Matt's Wedding Reception (5-25-07)

1. Some of My Bitches ... Getting ready to party at the Reception.
(Jenn, Jeannie, Suz, Kristen, Laura)

2. The Best Man and the Man of Honor ... What a couple of goofs. Having fun, skipping down the stone lane towards the Reception.

3. Presenting for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ryan Strock arriving at the Reception.

4. Father-Daugher Dance

5. Matthew dipping Autumn during their first dance as man and wife.

6. Eric, Best Man (Brother of the Groom) choking up while giving his toast.

7. Matt aka Buddy ... Man of Honor (Brother of the Bride) choking up while giving his toast.

8. The Toasting Trio (Jimmy, Matt, Eric)

9. Jimmy describing how he held Autumn when she was only a few weeks old. He didn't choke ... but he did have tears glistening in his beautiful blue eyes.

10. Autumn listening to the toasts given by her brother-in-law, Eric Strock, her brother, Matthew, and her Daddy (Jimmy aka Jimbo aka Jim).

11. Autumn and Matt cutting the cake. Isn't beautiful. Our neighbor, Deb, out did herself.

12. The Gang: Jessica Williamson, Jen Stewart, Greg Phillips, Nate Finck & Tracy O'Hara (soon to be Tracy Finck)

13. Autumn & Matt heading off to their new lives ... well actually the B&B ... so we'll just say Good Night!

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Monday Morning Meme

I've snicked this from my dear friend, Darla

I've Seen 170 out of 239 Films


SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own blog, paste this as a post. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, and change the header adding your number. Have fun.

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(X) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
(X) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
Total: 10

(X) The Princess Bride - about 50 times
(X) Anchorman
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
( ) Saw II
(X) White Noise
(X) White Oleander
(X) Anger Management
(X) 50 First Dates
(X)The Princess Diaries
(X) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 20

(X)Scream (all 3 at least 8 times - each one every Halloween)
(X) Scream 2
(X) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(X) American Pie
(X) American Pie 2
(X) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 27

(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
(X) Harry Potter 3
(X) Harry Potter 4
(X) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(X) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 34

(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
(X) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(X) Butterfly Effect
(X) 13 Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(X) Robots
Total so far: 42

(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (about 6 times)
(X) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(X) Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents (about 5 times)
(X) Meet the Fockers (at least 3 times)
(X) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(X) KING KONG
Total so far: 53

(X) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
(X) Final Destination
(X) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(X) Halloween
(X) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(X) Flubber
Total so far: 61

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(X) Practical Magic - at least 8 times
(X) Chicago
(X) Ghost Ship
(X) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(X) Secret Window
(X) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards - at least 4 times
(X) The Whole Ten Yards - at least 3 times
Total so far: 70

(X ) The Day After Tomorrow - at least 8 times
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You - at least 15 times
(X) Just Married
(X) Gothika
(X) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(X) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 78

(X) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(X) Ocean's Eleven - at least 5 times each
(X) Ocean's Twelve & 13
(X) Bourne Identity & Ultimatium - each at least 3 times
(X) Bourne Supremacy
( ) Lone Star
(X) Bedazzled
(X) Predator I
(X) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
(X) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 90

(X) Independence Day - at least 8 times
(X) Cujo - at least 3 times
(X) A Bronx Tale
(X) Darkness Falls - at least 4 times
(X) Christine
(X) ET - at least 6 times
(X) Children of the Corn
(X) My Bosses Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
(X) War of the Worlds - at least 3 times
(X) Rush Hour - Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth? - at least 5 times
(X) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 102

( ) Best Bet
(X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - at least 10 times
(X) She's All That
(X) Calendar Girls
(X) Sideways - twice
(X) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(X) Ever After - at least 8 times
(X) Wizard of Oz - at least 30 times
(X) Forrest Gump - at least 15 times
(X) Big Trouble in Little China - at least 10 times
(X) The Terminator - at least 10 times
(X) The Terminator 2 - at least 6 times
(X) The Terminator 3 - at least 5 times
Total so far: 114

(X) X-Men
(X) X-2
(X) X-3
(X) Spider-Man
(X) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(X) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
(X) Freaky Friday (both the original and the remake) at least 3 times each
(X) Reign of Fire - at least 4 times
( ) The Skulls
(X) Cruel Intentions - At least 8 times
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek - at least 5 times
(X) Shrek 2 & 3
Total so far: 126

( ) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street - both original & remake - at least 20 times
(X) Old School - at least 4 times
(X) The Notebook - at least 8 times
(X) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(X) A Walk to Remember
(X) Ice Castles - at least 5 times
( ) Boogeyman
(X) The 40-year-old Virgin
Total so far: 133

(X) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring - at least 4 times (all 3)
(X) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (at least 8 times)
(X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 139

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
(X) Highlander - at least 5 times
(X) Mothman Prophecies - twice
( ) American History
( ) Three
Total so Far: 142

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer (another one in my Netflix queue)
( ) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc. (at least 5 times)
(X) Titanic (at least 10 times)
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (at least 20 times)
(X) Shaun Of the Dead
(X) Willard
Total so far: 147

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(X) Hulk
(X) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (at least 5 times)
(X) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(X) Waterworld
Total so far: 153

( X) Kill Bill vol 1
( X) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
(X) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
(X) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 157

(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope - At least 20 times
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back - at least 20 times
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi - at least 20 times
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 163

(X) The Matrix
(X ) The Matrix Reloaded
(X ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(X) Team America: World Police
(X) Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs - at least 5 times
(X) Hannibal
Total so far: 170

Now Add them up and...

What I want to know is ... What about the films I've watched ... that aren't on this list? Yes - I know - I don't have a life ;)


Put "I've seen ...__ out of 239 films" in the subject line and repost it.

#4 - THURSDAY THIRTEEN - 13 Pics from Matthew & Autumn's Wedding (5-25-07)

1. The Groom - Matthew Ryan Strock

2. The Bride - Autumn Marie Fortney

3. Autumn & Pammy (Daughter & Mother)

4. The Fortney's. Jimmy - Autumn - Pammy - Matthew. The last picture of just the 4 of us.

5. Siblings ... Autumn & Matt

6. Mother of the Bride (me) being escorted to her seat by Man of Honor (ds Matthew)

7. Eric (Best Man) and Matt (Groom) patiently waiting for the Bride.

8. Matthew (Man of Honor), Autumn (Bride), Fr. Miller officiating, Matt (Groom), Eric (Best Man)

9. Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Strock

10. Man of Honor (Matt) & Best Man (Eric) ... goofing around

11. Jimmy, Pammy (me), Autumn, Matthew, Brenda, & Barry

12. Autumn ... what a beautiful bride.

13. Autumn & Matthew ... and they lived Happily Ever After!

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What Kind of Beauty Are You?

You Are a Flawless Beauty!

When it comes to beauty, you spare no expense - and it shows You're the kind of woman a man would launch a thousand ships for It's hard for anyone to beat you in the beauty department But remember, it's okay to show a flaw or too - you've got plenty to spare

What Type of Beauty Are You?

hahaha ... I'm not really sure about this ... but I'll take the compliment!

Matt in Iraq

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Matt relaxing on his bed

What Kind of Pizza Eater Are You?

Your Pizza Says You Aren't a Picky Eater

People may tell you that you have a small appetite... but you aren't under eating. You just aren't a pig. You aren't particularly picky about pizza. It's so good... how could you be? You fit in best in the Western part of the US. You like food that's traditional and well crafted. You aren't impressed with "gourmet" foods. You are generous, outgoing, and considerate with your choices. You have many conflicting and complementary layers to your personality. You should consider traveling to Australia. The stereotype that best fits you is geek. You're the type most likely to order pizza to avoid leaving your computer.

What Does Your Pizza Say About You?

#3 THURSDAY THIRTEEN - 13 Books I Must Have on a Deserted Island

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1. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell - My all-time favorite book. I read it every summer ... Who knows how long I'll be on the deserted island.

2. to 8. HARRY POTTER 1-7. I realize this may seem like a cop-out ... but I must have all 7 books ... I mean if I'm going to be stranded on a deserted island ... I need the complete set.

9. IMMORTAL IN DEATH by J.D. Robb - this is the 3rd in the series ... but it is my favorite. This is the one where Mavis is framed for murder and Eve has to clear her best friend ... and shop for a wedding gown.

10. DEAD BEAT by Jim Butcher. Butcher's seventh Dresden Files novel. Harry Dresden, a wizard PI living in Chicago with his half-brother, who's an incubus, and his dog, Mouse, learns that his friend, a Chicago police officer specializing in occult investigations, is being blackmailed by a vampire. To thwart the various ghouls, sorcerers and body-stealers in their evil quest, Dresden must turn for help to a reluctantly heroic medical examiner, Waldo Butters; a pack of werewolves, the Alphas; and a fallen angel, disguised as a bookstore clerk.

11. MR. PERFECT by Linda Howard. This is an older Linda Howard ... but it is still my favorite of hers. I just wish they would release it on cd-unabridged. During drinks one TGIF session ... they come up with a list of attributes for Mr. Perfect. Sam might not be perfect ... but he sure does come close. My favorite scene is him drinking his juice in the morning in the kitchen with the drapes open. Yummm.

12. LOVER ETERNAL by J. R. Ward. I love all of the Black Dagger Brotherhood books ... but I think Rhage is my favorite. The whole beauty vs. the Beast and how Mary tames the beast.

13. SEASWEPT by Nora Roberts. One word: CAMERON!


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The ABC's of Me

The ABC's Of Me.....Share
Copy and paste and put your own answers. :)

A - Age: 52 - I'll be 53 in July

B - Bed size: Queen

C - Chore you hate: Cleaning the bathroom

D - Dad's Name: Garth

E - Essential start your day item: Coffee with French Vanilla Coffeemate Creamer

F - Favorite actor(s): Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock

G - Gold or Silver: Gold

H - Height: 5' 7"

I - Instruments you play(ed): piano

J - Job title: Wife, Mother, Best Friend, Legal Assistant

K - Kid(s): Autumn (26) and Matthew (23)

L - Living arrangements: Me, DH Jimmy and our 2 dogs, Reggie & Toby

M - Mom's name: Noreen

N - Nicknames: THE MOMMA, Momma, Pam, Pammy, Pammy Wammy, Pamuuuulllllaaaaaa, Pamalamadingdong

O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: tonsils in 1961 and hysterectomy in 2004

P - Pet Peeve: Rudeness

Q - Quotes you like: Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

R - Right or left handed: Right

S - Siblings: 3 Brothers - Bruce, Mark and Patrick

T - Time you wake up: 6 am

V - Vegetable you dislike: Parsnips

W - Ways you run late: Because of Jimmy - he is such a dawdler

X - X-rays you've had: I can't count that high. I have had so many I should be glowing.

Y - Yummy food you make: Broccoli Bake, Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Potato Salad, Pasta Salad, Grilled Veggies

Z - Zodiac: Leo

What I Have Done In My Life

Monday Morning Meme
Because you have nothing better to do with your time. You know the drill!

Place an X by all the things you've DONE. REMOVE the X from the ones YOU HAVE NOT. This is for your entire life!

Swam in the ocean X
Gone to Washington X
Gone on a blind date X
Skipped school X
Watched someone die X
Been to Canada X
Been to Mexico
Been to Florida X
Been to another country X
Been on a plane X
Been lost X
Been on the opposite side of the country X
Cried yourself to sleep X
Played cops and robbers X
Recently colored with crayons X
Sang Karaoke X
Paid for a meal with coins only X
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't X
Made prank phone calls X
Caught a snowflake on your tongue X
Danced in the rain X
Watched the sunrise with someone X
Blown bubbles X
Gone ice-skating X
Been to the movie's ALONE X

1. Any nickname? Momma, THE MOMMA, Pam, Pammy, Pammy Wammy, Pamuulllaaaa, Pamalamadingdong.
2. Mother's name? Noreen
3. Favorite drink? Turkey Hill's diet green tea with honey & ginseng, and Echo Domani or Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio
4. Piercing? yes, ears
5. How much do you love your job? I am very happy at my new job.
6. Birthplace Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
7. Favorite vacation? Walt Disney World, April 1-10, 2000
8. Ever been on TV? Yes
9. Have any children? Yes - 2. DD Autumn, 26 and DS Matthew, 23.
10. Ever steal any traffic signs? Technically, we just borrowed it ... and it was aspeed limit sign, not a traffic sign.
11. Ever been in a car accident? Unfortunately, yes. A few of them.
12. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4
13. Can you drive a standard car? Absolutely … and I miss my stick shift L I can also drive 3 on a tree J … that shows you how old I am.
14. Favorite pie? My MIL's homemade PA Dutch Chicken Pot Pie
15. Favorite number? 3
16. Favorite movie? Gone With The Wind, Pride & Prejudice, American Dreamer, I have over 1200 movies … too many favorites to list.
17. Favorite dessert? Chocolate Torte cake with Raspberry crème filling & Chocolate Gnache icing
18. Favorite food? Chinese, Italian, Seafood, and a nice filet mignon (medium) on the grill with grilled veggies, grilled corn on the cob, Jimmy's Caesar Salad, baked potato with butter & sour cream, fresh sliced cantaloupe, blueberries & strawberries ... and for desert, just-baked warm brownies with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce on top. Yummmm … Can you tell I haven't had lunch yet?
19. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
20. Favorite brand of body wash? I use soap - Camay
21. Favorite toothpaste? Crest Sensitive with Whitening
22. Favorite smells? coffee fresh after grinding, clean sheets that were hung outside to dry, a baby after a bath, Honeysuckle in May/June, and my million or so Yankee candles.
23. How do you relax? read, dinner with friends, and I've just started yoga. It actually works.
24. Where do you see you in 10 years? Hopefully, still enjoying my life.
25. What is your favorite breed of dog? Labrador Retriever

#1 THURSDAY THIRTEEN - 13 Favorite Comfort Movies

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My 13 Favorite Comfort Movies


It's the cold and flu season. You know what that means! You feel like crap and need to spend the day on the couch with some old friends that make you feel better. So when I have a day like that ... I pick from one of these movies.


1. COLD COMFORT FARM
In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste [Kate Beckinsale], recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out...

2. NOTTING HILL
Every man's dream comes true for William Thacker, a successless Notting Hill bookstore owner, when Anna Scott, the world's most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop. A little later, he still can't believe it himself, William runs into her again - this time spilling orange juice over her. Anna accepts his offer to change in his nearby apartment, and thanks him with a kiss, which seems to surprise her even more than him. Eventually, Anna and William get to know each other better over the months, but being together with the world's most wanted woman is not easy - neither around your closest friends, nor in front of the all-devouring press.

3. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
Lucy is a lonely Chicago subway employee whose life consists of living with her cat, avoiding her landlord's boorish son, and nursing a hopeless crush on a handsome commuter who passes her booth every day. Whilst working the Christmas shift, she witnesses him being mugged and pushed off the platform, and manages to save his life - and is mistaken for his fiancé at the hospital. She is duly embraced by the man's warm and welcoming family - except for his suspicious brother Jack, who is not convinced that she's the genuine article.

4. HOPE FLOATS
Humiliated on national television when her best friend and her husband admit they are in love and having an affair, Birdee Pruitt moves back to her mother's home in Texas. Returning home however is not easy. Her young daughter misses her father and she finds that having been the most popular girl in high school - cheerleader, married the high school quarterback - left a bitter feeling among many of her contemporaries. There is one man however who still has feelings for her after all of these years, but can Birdee put her recent past behind her and start a new life?



5. PRIDE and PREJUDICE
In this lavish adaptation of Jane Austen's classical romance, Elizabeth Bennett is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman in a well-off but lower class family with four sisters, a long-suffering but loving father and a mother anxious to marry them to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such wealthy young man, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy - and as Mr. Darcy is arrogant, cold and rude, it is hatred at first sight. As her older sister Jane falls in love with Mr. Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, and her youngest sister Lydia flirts with anyone in a military uniform, Lizzie finds herself fighting off the attentions of the unctuous Mr. Collins and quite taken by the charming Mr. Wickham - who also happens to be an enemy of Mr. Darcy. However, as the characters succumb in many ways to pride and prejudice, Lizzie learns that not all is quite as it seems...and that Mr. Darcy might not be so disagreeable after all.


6. A KNIGHTS TALE
Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.


7. LOVE ACTUALLY
The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.

8. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
After his wife died, Sam Baldwin did not think about other women. His 8-year old son Jonah thinks that his father needs a woman in order to get his life back in order and calls in on a nation-wide radio-show. The voice and story of Sam is heard by hundreds of women, including Annie Reed, who is about to marry her fiancé Walter soon. She can't find a rest until she really knows for sure that Sam Baldwin is not the one person for her. Thus, Annie travels to Seattle, where Sam and Jonah live, and there decides that Sam is not the one. The letter she never sent was posted by a friend of Annie, and therefore Jonah, who feels that she's the one for his dad, already booked a flight to New York in order to meet her on the roof of the Empire State building, just like in "An Affair to Remember". Of course, his father follows him instantly...

9. NANNY MCPHEE
Based on the "Nurse Matilda" books by Christianna Brand comes the story of Nanny McPhee. Cedric Brown is now a widower with seven ill-behaved children who've already chased away 17 nannies. But when a mysterious voice tells Cedric to hire Nanny McPhee, she arrives at the Brown home and the kids learn to behave properly. But when Great-Aunt Adelaide tells Cedric he must be married by the end of the month or she'll separate the children, he tries to find women, but the children run them away. And Nanny McPhee tells Simon, the eldest, that he will face the consequences, so the kids go to Selma Quickly and admit what they did and ask to give their father a second chance and they will be married. Will the kids really find the perfect woman for their father?

10. MY BEST FRIENDS WEDDING
Michael O'Neal and Julianne Potter have been friends for years but when Michael rings Julianne to tell her he is getting married to a lady called Kimberly Wallace she finally realizes he has to him her true feelings, which are that she loves him. When she gets there she can't do it so she tries to do everything to get them to break up.





11. SOAPDISH
Celebrated soap star Celeste Talbert gets support from her niece and from Rose, the script-writer, but is otherwise pretty unpopular at work. In particular, the producer is trying increasingly desperately to write her out of the script on the promise of favours from venomous co-star Montana Moorehead. So Celeste's life is not greatly improved by the re-appearance of an old flame she had insisted was fired from the show twenty years before.



12. COCKTAIL
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian & Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together???


13. THE WEDDING CRASHERS
Guided by a set of "wedding crashing rules," Washington, D.C. divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey can charm their way into any wedding...and into the hearts of every bridesmaid...for one night. But at the biggest social event of the year, John breaks the rules and falls for Claire Cleary, the daughter of the United States Secretary of Treasury, William Cleary, and Jeremy is left at the mercy of her "stage-five-clinger" sex-crazed sister Gloria. Being there for his buddy, Jeremy follows John to the family's huge estate for a weekend that may even be too wild for these professional party animals

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