Remember the shocked expression ofnJack Nicholson's face after he announced it had won? That was great.

I'll defend Mrs. Miniver! Sure, there's a whole lot of melodrama there, but I think the ending is pretty darn moving and inspiring.

Extra points for Mabel Walker Willebrandt!

Actually, the House doesn't have the prerogative to filibuster, that's reserved for the Sen—

Yeah, agreed. The suicide plot sends the film down a road it need not travel, since the dueling-academics stuff is more interesting anyway.

Melodramatic and silly it may be, but damned if that ending where they all stand on their desks and ignore Old Man Norman Lloyd's protestations and Robin Williams says "Thank you, boys" won't always bring a tear to the eye.

Heh, it's kind of funny that John Quincy Adams was the one endorsing a harebrained idea, and that Andrew Jackson was the voice of reason who cancelled it.

Doesn't Harry Potter visit Heap, Poots & Stubbs during his trip to Diagon Alley?

I heard a radio interview with Nimoy once, and when asked whether he resented the decades during which he's been inevitably yolked to Mr. Spock, he responded of course not!, because all he ever wanted to do was make a living as an actor, and that's exactly what he's been able to do.

Gosh, what a class act.

"When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous…

And as if Ghostbusters isn't enough of a legacy, he also made Groundhog Day! The man was a treasure.

Ha! I too grew up with a VHS of Ghostbusters taped off the Disney Channel. (Ghostbusters II also, for that matter.) And yeah, I don't believe there were any language edits.

"You know, we had a lot of fun tonight. But there's nothing funny about … vapor lock."

The image of Lloyd Bridges sniffing glue will forever make me laugh.

That was too close!

Empty House

"My brother, W.K. Kellogg, worked for me as a low-paid assistant for many years. Now he's off on his own and amassin' fortunes with my corn flake invention. Unfortunately, he has chosen the family name to promote it. But the whole world knows only one Kellogg: me, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg! Surgeon, inventor, author,…

"I'm from Chex Squadron, and I volunteer!"

There's actually a pretty good story about why that site was chosen. One of the men tasked with developing the new cemetery was Montgomery Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the Union Army. Meigs's son was killed in the war, and it is said that in his anger and grief he chose to locate the cemetery on Robert E. Lee's…