But it's FIORELLO! The Little Flower! Who took on Tammany and won!

WINTERGREEN FOR PRESIDEEEEENT!!!

Oh gosh, yeah, it can be pretty grim in that respect. But "Politics and Poker," "Little Tin Box," and "Gentleman Jimmy" are are delightfully toe-tapping and wonderful as political history gets!

Speaking of Pulitzer-winning musicals, Fiorello! is fantastic! It even has an exclamation point right there in the title!

Well, that could have been worse, right?

I gotta say, I prefer the show when it just calms down. The scene with Charlie and Will talking in the latter's office - when he's informed that he's being removed form the 9/11 coverage - might have been my favorite scene just because the two characters talked calmly and believably.

I knew the extra inside out person before he sang the song!

I'M MIKE WALLACE I'M MORLEY SAFER I'M ED BRADLEY ALL THIS AND ANDY ROONEY TONIGHT ON 60 MINUTES!!!!

Ugh, yeah. If I remember correctly, Ron Howard was first attached to that project and wanted to make a bloody, realistic, R-rated film about the Alamo. Fate took things in a different direction.

That movie is so much fun. The image of Edward Herrmann doing the Charleston will stick with me forever. And Cary Elwes is in it! He should be around more.

Yeah, I'm very excited too. A compelling bit of Hollywood history, plus Bradley Whitford and Paul Giamatti wearing hornrimmed glasses! Tom Hanks with a mustache! What's not to like?

I had the same thought, Craig, but then I remembered that Mr. Hancock also wrote Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World, which I think is a pretty dandy film. Plus, the fault with The Blind Side lies less with the direction and more with the atrocious adaptation, so we should really blame the screenwriter, who was *checks…

Six theaters including three arthouses? Sounds like heaven! I'm living in a fairly culturally-underdeveloped area right now, so I long to return to such a cinephilic environment.

Seventeen? Gladiolus, that's an impressive figure! I've only seen seven myself, and one of those was Jurassic Park, which remains the best damned theater experience I've had this year.

*Mike sees this, shakes head*

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This reminds me of one of my favorite West Wing moments in which Josh mentions Lincoln.

HA, Filliam H. Muffman. That still cracks me up.

I think you're absolutely right, Lurky - I bet most of us went through the self-righteous Jeremy phase at some point in which we confused intransigence for personal strength. I definitely would have been in Jeremy's camp ten years ago, but I'm pretty darn glad I'm not anymore.

To this day I love what Richard Schiff did with Sorkin's dialogue - he underplayed it, and it was glorious.