I also go through the old Teasdale and Anchower columns quite often (with T. Herman Zwiebel close behind), and I wish there were more Larry Groznics. None of the others really stuck, although I'm still waiting to see what comes of the Jim Anchower/Smoove B crossover.

Batman: The Animated Series
I was a teenager when Batman: TAS was in its original weekday afternoon run, and it was on every day in our house because I had a brother in grade school. So I was aware of it but didn't fully appreciate its merits until I was an adult and revisited it on a whim. Now I own the whole set…

sequel
I hope the sequel is "The Fighter vs. The Wrestler", in which we discover Randy "The Ram" Robinson survived his climactic wrestling match and now fights pro boxers for charity.

This was a fun question
and it is hard to choose just one answer. Some of mine were:

As long as Winter Light is on the table, can I ask what you all make of the ending?

Not yet. I need to see The Parson's Widow and Leaves from Satan's Book. Any others?

I always thought "Ordet" and "Winter Light" would make a good double bill.

great Gateway!
Dreyer is my favorite director. I can't even tell you how much I love The Passion of Joan of Arc and Ordet.

One of these will work
1. The Cranes - Frasier and his new wife buy an upscale townhome in Upscalesville, USA. Upon moving in, they discover they share a wall with Lilith and her husband. Hilarity ensues.

The Time-Life series on WWII is pretty good. I think it came out in the '70's. I inherited a goodly chunk of the collection from my grandfather but unfortunately he didn't have all of them.

I like the '79 version of "All Quiet on the Western Front." It had its hokey moments, but by and large it showed the horrors of the trenches pretty well. I wish there had been more historical context, since you never knew where they were or what battles they were fighting, but maybe that's appropriate too, since a…

the social menace of punk rock
I hope they do a new version of the episode with the punk rock criminals that stole another band's equipment to be in the big battle of the bands.

That was probably the title in Cantonese.

The devil in the 80's
I remember the Satanic panic as it stood in the late '80's-early '90's. We learned all about the backmasked rock lyrics and read "Jay's Journal" (I knew one woman who read it to her kids to keep them scared straight). I got fed stories about one of the local mortuaries being used to dispose of…

It was a couple of Jewish guys who taught me how to throw darts in a nightclub in northern Japan. They were really nice.

One Fine Day
with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer is probably the only romance I enjoy. I think that's because it also involves parenthood and so I can identify with it more readily than I can with a film about impossibly attractive twenty-somethings going through the rom-com motions. And I had to wonder at the…

Until recently, we lived in a circa-1930's house attached to a motel. We were the live-in managers and the owners remodeled the place for us, but there were two bathrooms in the basement that were beyond saving so they skipped them. Anytime I passed one of them, I had to take a peek inside because they reminded me…

I'm with Keith Phipps on this one
I saw "My Bodyguard" when I was 6 and I was sure that Matt Dillon's northern Utah equivalent would be waiting to make my life a living hell as soon as I left elementary school. He found me in 8th grade.

Kurosawa was also fond of splitting his films into two thematic halves. I could see this getting really artsy.

My friend's older brother had a Heather Thomas poster on his bedroom door. We made a detailed study of it, seeing as how we had a scientific interest in anatomy at the time.