How come there are no Mithras Carols? A whole new field just waiting to be exploited.

Sharks taste like bananas. Hence the confusion.

If she ad-libbed, she'd get a laugh.

Somehow I love the idea of the government going house to house to collect data. You know the chain-gang scene in Take The Money And Run? I see "the government" acting like that, but it's a bunch of guys in black suits and carrying briefcases.

I listen to NPR. I've never heard Nickelback.

It's what he was doing during those 30 years, mate. I'll bet it wasn't yoga and a healthful diet.

If they wanted anagrams, they could have called him Gregory Pastruin.

Why would anyone paint a piano that color?

Perhaps rather than having an actor, the camera could function in the role, so the character is literally "invisible" since the audience sees everything from his pov without ever seeing him? I think this was done in Rebecca.

I liked M&C so much that I bought extra copies to give to people.

I managed to pick up the entire set, in hard cover and excellent condition, at an estate auction some years back. I had to go to $150 for it, but it was still a steal.

The Muppet version with Michael Caine is pretty good. Caine is oddly affecting as Scrooge.

Rand's philosophy, however, is easily a match for her ability to write.

If someone had started a Holmes series with a 25-year-old Ralph Fiennes as Holmes, and let him age as the series went on without replacing him, that would have been worth doing. Too late now.

The only reason Red Harvest isn't on this list is that every time someone uses it as the basis for a movie, the movie is worth watching for one reason or another.
Does anyone know how often it's been used? I can think of at least two, including the Kurosawa and Bruce Willis versions.

No more use of
No more An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which has been used and overused, who knows how many times.

Odysseus is the first known example of a man who refused to stop and ask for directions. Tormented by the gods, my ass.

It would have been better with Dern as Gatsby and Redford as Buchanon.

A darned good writer? Really?
There's no real comeback to a statement like that.

Day of the Triffids, yes, I think about that one a lot. As long as the politics is left in and it's not just turned into a CGI bloodfest.