I miss you guys! I have been very busy and I would like to thank the following planets that pay for the Rocket Maid /Rocket ship fuel:
- West Village
- East Village
- Williamsburg/Graham Ave
- Chelsea
To celebrate Maids in Hollywood movies, here are my top 5 Maid movies
5. That Funny Feeling starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee 1965
Great movie! Bobby Darin plays a wealthy business man named Tom Milford who meets cute blonde Joan Howell (played by sweet tooth icon Sandra Dee) at a cool swanky bar in NYC. They have chemistry, sexual innuendos galore, and wit matching that only entices Tom to ask Joan to go upstairs. But which upstairs? She lives in a teeny tiny apartment with another maid and instead leads him to an apartment that belongs to a wealthy business man that she cleans for. Hmmm?! This apartment looks very familiar to him. If the archaic 1960's man vs. woman crappola doesn't cut it, then check out NYC at it's finest before the 1970's ruins it for the next 30 years.
4. Blue Crush Starring Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez, 2002
What a great movie centered around three surfer girls from Hawaii who are chamber maids in order to make ends meet. It's more of a surfer flick, but Michelle Rodriguez say's the best line when she enters a hotel room full of fecal matter and vomit " Awww... that's freakin' nasty.." classic.
3. Friends with Money starring Jennifer Aniston and everybody else, 2004
Jennifer Aniston plays a great part in this ensemble cast of rich women from California, one wealthier than the next. Her name is Olivia and she's a housekeeper and keeps houses in affluent neighborhoods in California. Her struggle to keep up with her friends who can buy Lancome face products without blinking while she collects samples from store to store made me love her character. The way she negotiates prices, her delayed reactions to situations, and her friends who secretly frown upon her poverty makes this one of my favorite movies of all times.
2. Spanglish starring Paz Vega, Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Cloris Leachman, 2004
I have to say that the film was delicate about the matter of immigration and single motherhood. The character Flor, played by Paz Vega, was determined to give her daughter a better environment and moved from Mexico to East L.A. After a few years working the night shift in the cleaners, she decides to get a job during the daytime. She accepts a job as a housekeeper in the nice part of California to a neurotic W.A.S.P. woman named Deb (Tea Leoni) and her passively confused husband John (Adam Sandler). This movie wasn't depressing at all. But it did touch the issue of class and race with a hint of romance with you-know-who's?!
1. Maid in Manhattan starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes, 2003
I love this movie! It's the first movie J.lo played a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. Ralph Fiennes was great at playing the would be senator, Chris Marshall, heir to a political empire, sort of like John Kennedy.
The ending was a bit corny, but I thought it was a sweet film about a woman who happened to be a Maid and her struggle to climb the ladder of an industry that hires people from the outside.
Trivia: The role was originally written for Julia Roberts, but she didn't want to make another cinderella story, so she offered to produce it through her Red Om production company and approached Jennifer for the role. Jennifer is a huge fan of John Hughes, who wrote the story for the film. She wanted her character to be Latina and hail from the Bronx. The male romantic lead character was supposed to be an aristocrat from Europe. I guess they scrapped that too.
By the way, these movies are unrealistic. We maids all die to look like any of these ladies!
Rocket Maid signing off!
