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Am I the only person, when s/he first heard the word "selfie," thought it referred to masturbation?

Didn't he also play one in 1997's other 'roo movie , "Warriors of Virtue"?

Okay, I'm a boomer which means I don't count anymore, but I remember two NBC series from my teen years, both one-season wonders that were not the standard fare of their day and deserved to be on the air longer… maybe now they'd be better received:

957 comments? Don't have time to scroll through them all, so I might bethe umpteenth person to say he was very surprised to not see Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin,'" his signature song, on the list - which was written and first performed by Fred Neil.

Why I like "Sherlock" more than "Elementary:"

Back in the 1970s "Land of the Lost" had an end/beginning final episode to its first season. "Marshall, Will and Holly" (love that theme song) left the LOTL thru a dimensional warp & returned home, just as their earlier selves arrived. (Unfortunately it created a conundrum later in the show's run when Marshall zapped

If they redid the show today he'd now say "E-mail from some emu?"

300 with feathers
Some real wise-ass wrote this review:

Forgot to mention that the only problem is it's *impossible* to get a good quality DVD of the 1972 Alice. There are plenty of scratchy, public domain copies of a pan/scan TV print to be found in the dollar stores, but for some reason a DVD of a high-quality letterbox version of the movie is nowhere to be seen.

Oh, and the comic book movie I've been waiting 40 years for…
Dr. Strange, Ditko-style. Man, what they could do these days with Doc's spell-casting and those crazy multi-dimensional floating worlds Ditko was so good at… 'nuff said!

Disney's was okay, but the best Alice is
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," an all-star 1972 British version starring the likes of Ralph Richardson (the Caterpillar), Peter Sellers (the March Hare), Flora Robson (the Queen of Hearts), Dudley Moore (the Dormouse), Michael Crawford as the White Rabbit and a host of

In Spielberg's version Harvey would've actually been a furry in a rabbit suit with a stuck zipper who got lost on the way to the furcon. When he meets up with a totally soused Elwood (who was on his way to an AA meeting) it's love at first sight…

These are a few of my favorite cliches…
Not so much plot cliches as overused memes (if that's the right word):