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Oddities!
You should do Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica's only foray into American filmmaking. It would be worth it for the cast alone—Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Gallo, Lili Taylor—but it's also annoyingly/transcendently weird. Check out clips on You Tube.

Oddities!

Slobbering?
Come on! I have a drool cup.

I particularly like the keyboard-clacking during Nathan's (?) overhead-360-degree bottle pan. Like, you guys can't stop producing prose for the 5 seconds this video takes? Impressive.
Also, please more female staffers for the ogling. Or are you doling out one staffer per Taste Test?

I'm such a pathetic A.V. Club nerd that I was all 'Whose voice is that!? Will we see faces!?? OMG, a girl", before passing out. Sigh. I need to seriously reexamine my life.
And, yeah, she's adorable.

"My father was an exhaust manifold, and my mother is a tree."
Great job, Keith. This is one of the best Waits interviews I've read. Your questions are great, and you don't even sound like you're in awe to be talking to the coolest person ever.

While it's POSSIBLE to conclude that Eli and Paul are the same person, it requires a lot of assumptions (e.g., Abel, their father, is so used to Eli referring to his non-existent brother that he doesn't betray any surprise when he is mentioned; Eli is so repressed, he has no idea he betrayed his own family in the

Actually, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the confusion very well in the scene in which he initially encounters Eli. His expression when Eli walks up is very much "Oh, shit, is this Paul? Is my ruse blown?" Once Eli starts to speak, Daniel realizes it's a different person and relaxes.
Also, Eli's reference to his 'stupid