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Wasn't Woody's trip to Hell in Deconstructing Harry also taken from leftover material from Annie Hall?

Has anyone here seen Mizoguchi's 1949 film, My Love Has Been Burning? It also stars Kinuyo Tanaka, and I've heard good things about it. That movie is set in the 1880s, when even Japanese men who promoted ideas of liberal democracy treated their women like crap.

Oops, gottacook2 (and maybe others) already made that point.

Correction: Newhart's album beat the original Broadway cast album of The Sound of Music, not the soundtrack album, since the movie version hadn't yet been made.

Maybe Tom Neville was so disappointed and disgusted by Jason that he saw in Danny what he wished to see. Likewise, maybe we can get a later episode where a rebel sings "The Ballad of Danny the Chopper Killer", the lyrics of which bear only a tenuous relationship to the actual event.

Yes, even the pampered Karen in Goodfellas got "turned on" when Henry Hill beat up her abusive boyfriend. You'd think Jim's wife should be a little grateful.

I don't know if this was mentioned in the comments of the previous episode, but is anyone upset that Kim Raver may leave this show to star in an NCIS spin-off? I want to keep my post-apocalyptic Lady Macbeth!

For those of you who find Chaplin's sentimentality too much to bear, I would recommend Claude Chabrol's Landru (1963). Chabrol and screenwriter Françoise Sagan - closely following the the facts of the Henri Landru case - definitely did not stack the deck in the murderer's favor. Landru was not killing to survive, but