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(Sometimes called TV Parking.) Not parking for the movies, but the kind of ridiculously easy parking a character in a movie gets when s/he pulls right up to his/her destination, zeroing in on a miraculously wide-open parking spot in what otherwise is an impossibly tight urban area.
During the 1950s and 1960s, in movies and on television, Doris Day got such a rep for manifesting that lucky talent that a spin-off term was coined; see "Doris Day Parking." Generally Ms. Day's roles had her piloting sensible domestic sedans and station wagons, a visual metaphor for her competence, efficiency, self-reliance and ability to live without a man. By way of contrast, the neurotic characters Tony Randall portrayed often struggled with temperamental British roadsters, and Rock Hudson played dissolute types who poured themselves into a taxi -- hungover, drunk, in a hurry, or all three.
Times did change -- a little. On "The Doris Day Show," CBS-TV's' late 1960s career-girl sitcom and vehicle (no pun intended) for Ms. Day, her character drove a 1969 Dodge Charger. A red convertible Charger, on a legal secretary's salary. Modernity notwithstanding, Doris never seemed to have much trouble finding instant parking. In San Francisco. Business-district and high-rise parts of San Francisco. In all fairness, though, the opening credits included a very brief shot of her on the California Avenue cable car.
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In 1985 writer-director-male lead Albert Brooks, playing opposite Julie Hagerty in the film comedy LOST IN AMERICA, saw a movie convention ripe for satire. The lead couple, having had all kinds of bad luck in the Heartland, moves to New York City to find new careers. As the soundtrack blares Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York," their car, shown in exteme high shot, dives (no backing) right into a perfectly sized parking space dead center in front of a white high-rise office building in Midtown Manhattan. This knowing send-up of, and homage to the Movie Parking convention (which fit the plot perfectly) never fails to draw howls from the audience.
"Man, we were so lucky. TV parking in front of the building; the FedEx van had just pulled away."
"You want to see Movie Parking at its finest? Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO from 1957. Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara bel Geddes, all drove right up to Jimmy's apartment building, and it seemed to be the same spot perpetually open and waiting for them. Diagonal parking stalls, no less, or as you Midwesterners like to call it, angle parking."
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A period in time in which there are no good movies in the theaters
"Hey, what movie should we see?"
"Oh, I don't know see any I want to go to. We're in a real movie drought."
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Awful movies in which big-money Hollywood stars (esp. Nicholas Cage) put forth mediocre performances just to get a paycheck.
Con Air and The Wicker Man are prime examples of Nicholas Cage paycheck movies.
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A person who you watch movies with often or on a regular basis. Movies can be at the theater or at home.
Similar to a sex buddy.
Hey wanna be my movie buddy? We can get together every Friday at my place and watch movies together.
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A concept designed to connect those who are in relationships at a distance. This usually consist of calling each other to start the movie at the exact same time, making sure every word in the movie is synonymous, and staying on the phone for the full length of the movie in order to get the experience as if your loved one was right beside you.
B and J may have watched "Imagine Me & You" over the phone for their first movie date. Or "Would you like to watch 'Feast of Love' on a movie date?"
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The number for movie phone is 713 333 FILM. Call it to here an annoying guy!
I needed to know what movies were playing but forgot the number so i looked on urban dictionary and found it under movie phone!
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