Things I Think Are Cool

1. Letters To Cleo – I didn’t know about this band until I saw the movie in 1999. Check out 3 of their songs below, 2 are cover songs they performed in the movie and one is from later on.  All are great.
2. Heath Ledger – Although Heath Ledger had been in Australian films before 10 Things came out, I think it was his first US film.  For me, it was his best US role, except maybe for “Brokeback Mountain” which I still need to see. Anyway, never much liked him afterward, but thought he was charming and well cast in 10 Things.
3. The father – the paranoid, overprotective OB-GYN father in 10 Things has some priceless lines such as, “Kissing isn’t what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.”
4. Movie based on Shakespeare – 10 Things was loosely based on “Taming of the Shrew” and came out around the same time as “Clueless” (1995), “She’s All That” (1999), “Cruel Intentions” (1999) and other above average teen films also based on classic literature.
5. Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Have loved this boy ever since he was in that rather terrible television comedy with John Lithgow…”3rd Rock from the Sun.”

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