…which I now realize that Frito Pendejo already said.

His look in "Carlito's Way" was my first thought too. The one I'm having trouble imagining is Benicio del Toro as Moe. If he gets the bowl haircut, he's going to look a lot like Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men."

Size does matter…
…but "25 milliliters, compared to the standard 1-ounce single shot" isn't very helpful to those of us who are metric-system-challenged.

The best review of "The Love Guru"
was in the NYT. The review said, in part:

The one thing that bugged me about that movie was that he played "Hey You" in front of an entire school assembly, and apparently not one other student recognized it as plagiarized.

Scott, it's worth mentioning
that while Mark is telling the story that you open this article with, he's busy folding up hundreds of American flags and stowing them away. That was the detail that iced the scene for me.

A little history
This archetype goes way, way back in literature; it's called "the noble savage" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…. James Fenimore Cooper used it, and even as far back as 1688, Aphra Behn was writing something in a similar vein in "Oroonoko."

Vertigo
Tom Hanks's likability is an interesting point. For years I've been waiting for some savvy director to give Hanks his "Vertigo" role; he would start the movie as a likable guy, and as he turned more and more evil and creepy we'd go happily along with him, because we automatically like him. Then, about 2/3…

First thing I thought of
Don't forget Jack Black dancing his supercilious ass off to Katrina and the Waves' "Walkin' on Sunshine" in <i>High Fidelity</i>.

Don't fear the Lovett
If I'd never heard of Disney before, and this ad were the only thing I knew of its theme parks, I would be buying a ticket right now.