He's quite wonderful in Time Bandits, by the way.

One thing that always impressed me about the Touchstone Pictures era was how Disney cleverly booked 'name' actors who were at a low ebb in their careers and built them back up again. Down and Out was a real comeback for Dreyfuss and Midler.

Everybody knows he really won that Oscar for The Name of the Rose.

"Hilarious" isn't the first word I think of. He's got some funny bits throughout, but that final monologue is devastating.

Also watch Fort Apache. It's unusually progressive for its time and Wayne holds his own opposite Henry Fonda.

I wouldn't say hammy, just larger than life. "We're not little men…"

It baffles me that after all these years The Man Who Would Be King continues to slip past folks' pop-culture radar. It's seriously one of the greatest movies ever made, and both Connery and Caine are unforgettable in it.

Killer Joe, dude.

"That was the cherry on the cake of my day."

Aww, trouble at the Whiteman house…

That was the one clever thing in that entire film.

There was something of a scandal in my neighborhood when it aired. About half an hour in, there was a power failure and my dad drove us to his condo where the lights were still on so we could watch the rest. Rumor has it that our local government orchestrated the blackout.

Phoebe is still hot, she just gave up movies in favor of Klinespawn.

Regarding barking grunts and beef-flapese, I've always admired how Ben Burtt took visual cues from the alien masks and puppets, and engineered the 'languages' to sound like the sort of vocalizations that creatures with those sorts of mouths could plausibly make.

Yesssss, give in to your anger…

HHAWWW I NEVERTHOUGHTADAT!

I appreciate that the movie is doing something different with tone and setting there, but it always felt too D&D for my taste.

Yes. And later on, she tries to kill him but first orders him to write a letter saying she was the best he ever had.

I remember that panel discussion, @avclub-9349e20458f64c9bfb83b5221e145937:disqus . It was jarring to realize that Elie Wiesel had a more optimistic view of humanity than Sagan.

"Diamonds, Harry?"