Errata:

My sister,who asks to remain nameless on the blog, queries in a comment whether I meant "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Ghostbusters". Yes, dear sister, but only as to the latter, I meant Ghostbusters, not Ghosthunters. Ah, what a difference a mere five years can make in memory recall between sisters.

As to "The Fifth Of July", I did not mean "Born on the Fourth of July", by which I assume you are referring to the Jimmy Cagney movie, and I'm not sure that is the title, but in this post I was only listing movies from 1970 to 1985, so despite the cinematic highlight of a singing and dancing Cagney, I was not referring to that. [NOTE: further clarification reveals she meant what she said, the movie with Tom Cruise.]

However, I had to Google Fifth of July to make certain that I was not mixing it up with something else and lo and behold it is a movie based upon a play by Lanford Wilson (very cool) with Swoosie Kurtz (cool) and Richard Thomas (not cool) who will forever be John Boy for me and until he gets rid of that mole on his face, never make it onto any of my lists.

However, it is not the movie I was thinking of, which is Coming Home, the movie with Jane Fonda (before aerobics and Ted Turner) and Jon Voight (before Angelina Jolie and his paternal rantings). Both movies, however, concern paraplegic Vietnam veterans, so I am not entirely off my rocker. I can't say what's in Fifth of July because if I saw it, I don't recall it, but Coming Home has one of the most erotic sex scenes I've ever seen and I'll stand by that.

Thanks for clearing this up, sister, or at least leading me to check the facts. (Of course you could have told me this one of the ten times I talked to you today and then I would not have movie egg on my face for all to see , but hey, that's what sisters are for, right?) And this is why I would never post anything about song titles or whether a certain actor or actress is alive or dead, because she knows every damn one. Note her quick correction of my assumption about the Jimmy Cagney faux pas. (I think it's a Rainman kind of thing...and yes, I mean the Dustin Hoffman movie, not Singign in the Rain with Gene Kelly....)