True Story.  I was at a Costco with some family on a Halloween Day some years ago, and the workers were in costume, one of them a 40-something guy made up as Alice Cooper.  I pointed out that he was supposed to be a 70's rock star to my grade school nieces.  Overhearing me, the guy walked over, and after I said to him…

I had an emotionally similar, though presumably worse, experience with another movie.  I spent some time at the "nervous hospital" (as Sling Blade's Carl calls it) a few years ago, and the first selection for "movie night" was the Will Ferrel version of Land of the Lost.  Ugh.  Staring wall-eyed at the screen and…

I disagree. To me CHW is like diluted Crystal Lite to classic John Hughes Hawaiian Punch, like so many teen comedies starting around that time and basically continuing.  Same goes for the hit stinkers, She's All That, and American Pie (though Pie doesn't ape Hughes, more John Landis.)  IMO the fact that the largely…

Gobsmacked.  Great word.

Like McCartney mated with Waffle House.

If musicals like Legally blonde can be a hit, almost anything is possible. I thought that number was pretty lame too, until it was used to illustrate Ivy's fall from grace, which I'm shocked Noel didn't call too on the nose, but I liked, even if Ivy's druggy lack of awareness in stage was WAY overplayed.

Google Image says you are right.  Wow I though they were the same character.  Surprisingly the one Harry slept with is hotter.  (If one were evaluate in such a crude way…)

Funny to think Harry and Din have slept with the same woman (Hildy,) surely an embarrassment to Don if he knows. (Ah, Hildy….)

Yep, I was born in '66, the year of this season, and Bugles were an early childhood fav. Now I want a scene featuring Chicken in a Bisquit (which, true story, a grade school friend's dad in Cincinnati helped develop at a flavorings business in Cincinnati called The Cino Company. We go to tour their building on a…

That's because it was really Eddie Murphy using Martin Short's Jimminy Glick make-up, as applied by Martin Lawrence. Too on the nose, Todd? (I kid. Great analysis as usual.)

Totally ditto.  To quote the farmer in Napoleon Dynamite, "Son, I don't understand a word you just said."

And more pertinently, once upon a time blacks generally did not think of Elvis as a racist, my original point, because there was absolutely no evidence supporting it, and much to the contrary.  And those who did were letting cultural jealousy lead them into willful ignorance.

Dick Gregory makes a pretty flimsy point about Col. Parker being the reason Elvis was the biggest rock artist.  Sure he was a shameless hype machine, but what successful rock promoter wasn't?  Speaking of Lennon, Brian Epstein was opportunistic and manipulative to a fault.  Beyond things like making them wear…

That's definitely news to me. But there had to have been plenty who didnt feel that way. Hell even Eldridge Cleaver was positive about Elvis as a cultural liberator in Soul on Ice, and he was a Black Panther!

Fair enough, to a degree, but did you miss my leading disclaimer of "Whether this makes sense or not"?  This would indicate that I already know my theory is just a gut reaction and a specious one at that. 
I then went on to remark about being tired of glib comedies spoofing cliches and conventions of other movies and…

Whether it makes sense or not, I'm disregarding this good review because AVC also liked the other guys, which IMO was a horrible buddy cop movie spoof. I'm so sick of perpetually glib comedies that riff on cliches and conventions and random under-scripted antics, without a shred of credible character development. …

…artists who also considered him a friend included icons no less formidable than James Brown, Muhammed Ali, B.B. King and Jackie Wilson.  Everyday black listeners were very much in step with this.  Cultural appropriation at the time was an academic concept at the time, and wouldn't hit the average music fan's…

Yes, that's the situation NOW, post Chuck D. In the late 80's when he rapped about Elvis being racist (which was dead wrong, and even he later retracted the implication and admitted admiration for Elvis,) it seriously damaged Elvis' image with many blacks in the hip hop era.

Black folks also loved Elvis before Chuck D rapped out of his ass.

Fail. Peter Gunn is in the movie, but isn't remotely silly. Perry Mason is covered on Made in America with extraneous lyrics by Ackroyd. Google before you dis.