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I've read worse books, but I certainly agree with you about the protagonist. I actually don't remember much about the book, to tell you the truth. I remember being disappointed by the goofiness of what was supposed to be going on, but I liked all the film-nerd stuff.

He just seems like a nice guy who'd leave you alone to do your thing, which in my case, it being the mid-50s at the time of Mulcahy's reign, would be to be a beatnik.

A single dad: MULCAHY.

That's a downside?

According to Burl, there's an even closer horror-movie Gilligan parallel: MANTANGO!

Alec, because he's so smart; Guinness, because that's what you'd like to sit down and have a pint of with him.

The Police Academy Awards: now that I'd tune in to.

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He also dispenses advice to other world leaders about how easy it is to govern a country if you're willing to be a bit brutal now and again.

A sad little jig in a puddle of his own tears, perhaps. He wept openly on streaming video when Johnny Hart passed on.

It's good, but would be better if there were no new Muppet movie and it was just out of left field.

I think that white-guy voice is closer to his true self than Street Murphy is. He grew up in a very middle-class suburban atmosphere in, I believe, New Jersey. And he's a smart guy with a fluid vocabulary. (Jeez, I hope I didn't just call him "very well-spoken for a Negro" or something, because that's not what I mean.)

You could probably glean as much info on Kael's early life from reading the novel Flicker as from a book like this. There was some talk of Darren Aronofsky making that book into a movie, and I guess Tilda Swinton might make a pretty good Kael stand-in. 

What's wrong, you don't like pizza?

The answer is dalways yes.

Are you calling Hyden a foul banana?

I like Wild Honey a lot. It's a little album, no doubt about it, but it howls and beats its chest as only a mighty midget can.

The young fellow didn't make that one.

Oh, my friend The Latfield Kid is in this movie.