@Le Sigh — Jesus that shit gets tiresome. How many times have we heard the women say that they want a man to go home? What's with this whole female solidarity thing?

@Chaos: Aykroyd has always gotten off on talking movie business talk, playing the part of the no-nonsense movie executive, smoking a cigar and talking about the back end and below the line. Unfortunately that persona seems to talk him into making a lot of truly awful movies.

I would add Julia Child and Irwin Mainway.

Levon Helm brings such a note of authenticity to that movie; its portrayal of the love between Lynn and her coal miner father was lovely. If I recall correctly, Levon's an Arkansas boy — the only member of the Band not from Canada? The scene (slight SPOILER here) where Loretta thinks she hears him calling her name…

New York Times puts a slightly different slant on the story.

Odd. Maybe Cary Grant was talking like Cary Grant in that movie and Bernie Swartz thought it was aristocratic. I don't know, never saw it. It certainly was a Cary Grant accent he was using in Some Like It Hot, that's clear. The LA Times piece was quoting Billy Wilder telling the story, I believe. Maybe he remembered…

Back in my entertainment journalism days I did a profile of Curtis and hung out with him for a few days while he was doing a TV movie in Toronto. He was constantly recognized and approached by (older) fans, and he was always as gracious as he was to your mom. In person he was a charming, exuberant nut with a…

LA Times obit says Curtis watched Cary Grant in the movie Gunga Din over and over again while serving in the Navy because it was the only movie they had on the ship he was assigned to during the war. When Billy Wilder told him he had to come up with some sort of aristocratic accent for the shipboard seduction scenes…

From an article on heist films in today's (online) New York Times:

ah, Springsteen is a Baby Boomer. Just saying.

I don't know Westerberg's catalog all that well, but Suicaine Gratifaction was a major factor in keeping me sane through a difficult time. Especially the song "Fugitive Kind."

"….and I wouldn't want her any other way…"

This list is to songs that make me cry like American elections are to the candidates I would actually vote for. In other words it makes no sense at all.

@scootz: "Acutally…." ??? And what in my comment made you think that I was trying to list every song on which I thought Lyle sung well? Please tell me. Jesus, I get so sick of this "I know better than you do" attitude on the Internet. Fuck you, asshole.

oh yea, and This Old Porch is one of the greatest songs ever.

@scootz. Totally agree. Lyle's is one of the best singers in country, IMO, and I am a major country fan who worships at the Temple of the Possum. It's all about the feeling, and Lyle absolutely has it. Case in point: "Simple Song" from the Pontiac album. Also a lot of the stuff from In This House.

Oh, sorry, didn't get the reference at first. Still, sexist.

Sexist.

@John L: Wrong on both counts. If you're talking about feminism as in women's suffrage, etc., well, then, yes, feminism has a longer history, but the women's movement that we recognize as feminism today started as an outgrowth of the Civil Rights movement as filtered through the (mainly white, middle class)…

I miss the ad business
I know this is a cliche, since I'm a guy, but I wish the show would spend more time on the ad business and less on the personal drama.