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There's an M&Ms commercial just crying out to be made.

I like M&Ms with almonds.

Mr. President, what have you done with Prison Wine?

I saw it not too long ago. Pretty dismal. Enough to make Frank Capra gag.

The original isn't very good, either, even with Cary Grant and David Niven.

Has he been on Dancing with the Stars or Celebrity Apprentice yet?
Then he hasn't really hit rock bottom.

Great voice, Simon Callow. I loved him as Samuel Taylor Cholerick in The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere.

Callow?
"They're selfish, callow men, sure, but"
Callow? Are you sure about that?

Marginally interesting
You can tell a Western is European-made by looking at the horses. American horses don't look like European horses.
I doubt if anyone but me gives a shit about this, and I'm not really all that interested myself. It's just, you know.

200 Years is satire.

I love Raymond Carver's stories. Hell to use in a freshman English class, though, sadly.

Take this and buy yourself something nice, but don't tell your mother.

Are you all forgetting Popeye?

Sounded like Liverpool to me, or maybe Manchester. Like he'd rented Hard Day's Night and used it as his template.

And then they find this tribe of inbred humanoids from a tribe called The Gilligans. They're the descendants of a small group of tourists who'd gone on a 3-hour tour in a little boat called the Minnow, but a storm came up suddenly and they were shipwrecked on this island.
Things went pretty well for a couple of years

I liked Last Action Hero. Saw it in the theatre and then bought it on video.

I haven't managed a big enough infusion of caffeine yet, so maybe that's why I read "sonic feces" instead of sonic fence.

Hamlet at the Met, with Simon Keenlyside starring.

"You're an ass."
From the radio show.

The Borscht Belt refers to where the rich/richish Jews from NYC would go during the hot weather in the summer, in particular the Catskills. Think of Dirty Dancing and you'll get the idea. There were resorts all through the mountains that catered primarily to Jews because there were still "restricted" resorts that