I hate this song for the same reason I hate anything Jim Steinman does: He shoves every fucking hook he can think of into the song. And conflates a 2:30 song into a 5:50 turd.

"Hyderabad guys drive like this…but Karachi guys drive like THIS…"

Ha! That's how I sing the song. Especially when I'm cleaning up after my dogs. Makes the song much more palatable.

True. He showed his collection of badges to Elvis, which kicked off The King's obsession with collecting them. So without Paul Frees, we wouldn't have the famous picture of Nixon and Elvis.

Kind of sucked to see the Biography Channel doc on Caddyshack…Cindy didn't want to do a nude scene in the film and was bullied into it by a producer (she didn't name names, IIRC, but one got the strong suggestion it was Jon Peters).

Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too, son.

Shit's about to get extremely unrealistic up in here!

"Charley? Come on out and get your whuppin'!"

Newman and Redford wouldn't have been the same, but Newman deserves an assist for how good the film is. Supposedly he told Huston he loved the script, but "For God's sake, you've got to get Connery and Caine to play this!"

"Just the look he gives Ilsa when she looks at him after Sam's stopped
playing the piano at the club… holy shit, could Bogart ACT."

"I'm not asking, I'm telling!:

"Sadie"…Philippe's singing on that just knocks me out.

Stevie had very good reasons for giving away (in Don Man Mankind's phrase) 'It's A Shame' for The Spinners. Stevie's initial contract with Motown was set to expire. The Spinners hadn't managed to rack up any hits while on Motown. So Stevie wrote, produced, and played multiple instruments on 'It's A Shame'. When it…

Wild Thing wasn't THAT bad. I'm biased, since I'm from Minnesota and most of the book takes place there…not as strong as Beat the Reaper, but worth a read.

Wild Thing wasn't THAT bad. I'm biased, since I'm from Minnesota and most of the book takes place there…not as strong as Beat the Reaper, but worth a read.

Crap. Gielgud won the year before. 1982 Best Supporting Actor went to Louis Gossett Jr. for 'An Officer and a Gentleman'.

Crap. Gielgud won the year before. 1982 Best Supporting Actor went to Louis Gossett Jr. for 'An Officer and a Gentleman'.

"Double the lad's bet for me, you toad."

"Double the lad's bet for me, you toad."

OK, here's the exchange about Jamie Lee Curtis from the AV Club interview: