Always loved this book
I read it many years ago, but for some reason Cain's describing Mildred as having a cute bottom has always stuck with me. The Crawford movie is very good, but that Mildred Pierce isn't the Mildred Pierce described in the book.
I'm really looking forward to the mini, have been since I first read…

The Beatles
I discovered "The Beatles" (white album) well into my thirties and it was all I could do not to gush about it to everyone I knew.

I showed "Duck Soup" to a good friend a few years ago. I had really no idea if he'd like it, because he seems to have such arbitrary tastes. About halfway through he took a break from laughing and said "I thought I'd like it from what you said, but I didn't think it'd be so…wonderful!"
Awesome.

Also potato poopies, and corn curdlies.

There were probably more "Hooked On Classics" albums than you think…and I had them all. No, not including the offshoots of various genres like "Hooked On Swing", or "Hooked On Country"

"Million Mile Reflections" - man, that album sucked! Literally one of the first albums I ever got, as a Christmas gift, because I loved "Devil Went Down To Georgia" so much.

"Come Dancing" was one of the first videos I ever saw. Madness' "Our House" was the other. Bam! They're still pretty awesome.

H2O was one of the first albums I bought, when I was in high school. Maneater definitely was one of the reasons. I'm afraid it taught me that good songs can be found on unmemorable albums.

@arsene
Doesn't a "hassock" double as a storage container?

See I was born that year, is why I ask, and it does seem like it comes up a lot. I don't think it's just that I notice, but maybe it is. The things that spring to mind for me as having started that year: Star Trek, Dark Shadows, the theatre company where I work, the anti-christ, but believe it or not that's all just…

Why 1966, in particular? I have my own reason for asking.

My favorite is probably where Rob bought Laura the chandelier-type necklace. It's hideous - and he's so proud of it because it's a copy of one that the Empress Carlotta wore, just before she went mad! He reveals it to Milly and Jerry by opening the window seat curtain on Laura wearing it, and she looks absolutely…

I hated "New Frontier", and I've liked most everything else. "New Frontier" to me was rushed, choppy, with NO story at all - it made no sense. Yuck.

Please allow me to assure you
It is indeed possible for me to not like Owen Wilson.

He never got to be king either, did he. Huh, did he? How can you say someone was so great if he never got to be king!

Santana is obviously an Orc, albeit a really hot one
And Britney. Is so. Treebeard.

I think we're looking for American versions, so Hugh Laurie doesn't count. Terry Jones and Flip Wilson were too "non-exagerrated", I think (I thought Terry Jones could be quite endearing in drag).
But Milton Berle? Bingo! Very exaggerated, and ABRASIVE - must be abrasive.

The video revolution really did a number on the movie's popularity. For a long time, as VCR ownership spread, groups of people would watch ARTHUR on video (seriously). It was a crowd-pleaser, and it was appealing to see it without it being edited for language.
When the novelty wore off, suddenly a lot of people were…

I remember when Adolph Green died - of all people.

Wow God that's really good writing. I'd probably have it memorized too (especially the bit about Fox or Warner Brothers).