Yes. Reds, for a three-hour movie, never seems to do any more than it has to and is (mostly) free of histrionics. It's obviously well-known but it feels oddly overlooked when it's one of the 10 best movies Hollywood produced after 1975.

It will only get worse. The first baby boomers are going to turn 70 this year. Expect a lot of familiar faces to take their bows in the next few years.

What it lacks in color it makes up for in truth.

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To each their own, but "Why Do Birds Sing?" has quite a few original spins on the basic Femmes formula.

This is a terrible choice for civics lesson. Not only because the advisor who warns about involving the US military in conflicts where we have no clear strategic interest is presented as the asshole.

I’m not sure I could name any narrated entry where the voiceover actually enhances the experience beyond, you know, providing necessary exposition.

Sort of alluded to in number 2, but I'd add:

Unfortunately, Nielsen forgot that keeping a straight face sold the joke and engaged in an ever-higher level of mugging as he marched through his comedic career.

Virtually everything on the Spaceballs' ship is gold. Planetside, the wedding scenes, the "Hello Ma Baby" number and the Comb the Desert joke are basically the only things that work.

Gold Rushes do build communities, but often at the expense of existing people. The Native Americans and Californios suffered greatly as the Americans moved in.

Sam Brannan is the example of the men who "fleeced the golden fleecers," though he ended up going bankrupt (for non-Gold Rush reasons, IIRC).

Wasn't there an episode where Blossom ran for class president and NBC News did a half-hour special in prime time about it?

Yeah. These are actually stills from K-PAX.

Maybe The Cocoanuts, but compare the romantic subplot in Animal Crackers with the one in A Night at the Opera. The former doesn't slow down because it's getting the star-crossed lovers together. The latter's subplot is a massive distraction from what we've come to see.

As well he might. It didn't do as well as the earlier films, but the Marx Brothers wouldn't have gotten the MGM contract if it flopped.

Co-signed. The music breaks kill the momentum, along with the boring romantic subplot that the Paramount films avoided or downplayed.

So long as he keeps making money, he'll find work, but his prepubescent routine never worked for me. And his serious turns just play up his limited off/on range as an actor.

I listened to Stern for a little bit in my mid-20s. When he was off, he was totally off: Petty, bored, argumentative for no reason, whiny about things his audience wouldn't know or care about.