you know life would be good

[madrchsod]

if we all had a friend like "Harvey"..

[pagerbear]

1. One of my all-time favorite movies!

Gotta love Josephine Hull!

I need to pull out that video and watch it tonight.

[sus]

5. me too.

i'm going to watch it again tonight. i love that movie.

i like this:

Dr. Sanderson: Think carefully, Dowd. Didn't you know somebody, sometime, someplace with the name of Harvey? Didn't you ever know anybody by that name?

Elwood P. Dowd: No, no, not one, Dr. Maybe that's why I always had such hopes for it.

[sus]

2. some good Elwood quotes

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.

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Harvey and I have things to do... we sit in the bars... have a drink or two... and play the juke box. Very soon the faces of the other people turn towards me and they smile. They say: 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're all right, all right.' Harvey and I warm ourselves in these golden moments. We came as strangers - soon we have friends. They come over. They sit with us. They drink with us. They talk to us. They tell us about the great big terrible things they've done and the great big wonderful things they're going to do. Their hopes, their regrets. Their loves, their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. Then I introduce them to Harvey, and he's bigger and grander than anything they can offer me. When they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back.

[pagerbear]

3. That part makes me misty

Seriously

[sus]

4. oh yeah? well check this one out then

I'd just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his drinks, and I felt he needed conveying. I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd'. I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that! Because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name.

[pagerbear]

6. That part makes me smile warmly