Stayed up until after midnight watching Where the Boys Are with Paula Prentiss!!! Okay, that’s not entirely true. She wasn’t in the same room with me but rather I listened to her audio commentary. I enjoyed it but her commentary was rather inane. She just kept repeating how beautiful everyone was and how lucky she was to be picked by Mr. Joe Pasternack to appear in the film and doesn’t Connie have the most wonderful voice and Mother Dolores is a Mother Superior, can you believe it? She did say one thing that I thought was pretty cool. She visited Dolores at the Regina Laudis Abbey just a couple years ago. With Mother Dolores in her habit, they got into the convertible Paula brought and they drove around town just like the scene where the girls drive to Fort Lauderdale. Paula also said that Mother Dolores looked like a movie star portraying a nun, she was so beautiful.

I have attempted to listen to a couple audio commentaries that are included on DVDs and I find most are pretty boring. The only one I really felt was compelling was the one included on the Run Lola Run DVD. The director and the gal who portrayed Lola (Franke Potente) did the commentary and it was really interesting. They talked about what it took to film the scenes, different things to look out for, information on the other actors, etc…

Watching Where the Boy Are, I found myself transported back to when I was a mere teenager. I so remember watching that movie (over and over and over and …) and just LOVING Paula– LOVING JIM HUTTON– wanting to be Paula, wanting Jim as my man. The sad part was I related more to Connie’s character– the gal who couldn’t seem to get a man until Frank Gorshin loses his glasses and falls for her because he can’t see what she looks like and she is so kind to him leading him around everywhere. Of course there is the scene where Jim gets drunk and he DISSES Paula for Lola Fangango played by Barbara Nichols doing a rather weathered Marilyn Monroe impression. My heart still just shattered and I cried as Paula followed the two around and when Jim says, “Are you following me? Why?” She replies, “Because I thought we liked each other.” He of course sobers up and realizes the ass he was and they get back together. A little too quickly in my estimation. They really should have showed Paula giving Jim a kick in the ass before she says, “You do that again, sucka and I wil RIP YOUR EYES OUT!” I do love it when the movie goes from a light-hearted romantic comedy to something much darker once the kids dive into the fish tank at the restaurant. That’s when Yvette Mimeaux’s character goes cuckoo cuckoo after getting raped by the pseudo Yalie. And Mother Dolores contemplates loving George Hamilton prior to marriage but stops herself. Gosh I love this movie!