On the other hand, there are lots of people who look at the stars of old and compare them with the "stars" we've got now and agree with your ex.
Anyone to replace Cagney or Monroe or Astaire?

What about Elmore Leonard?  He had a stroke a couple of days ago.

He was on Prairie Home Companion several times in the last few years.  If their website still have its archives available, you could try it if you want to hear him performing live.

Magnates—how do they work?

Outside of that damned bazouki (how do you spell it?  nothing pleases the spellcheck) all through the movie.  God, so annoying.

If you ever find a copy of Jock of the Bushveld, stop reading before the end.  I mean it.

If pythons are criminalized, only criminals will have pythons.

Maybe you should buy Walsh a python.

I think a lot of people, including me, have trouble with that story.  I can believe killing one child, but both?  Without trying to eat at least one of them?
I admit freely I am no snake expert, but as far as I know, snakes don't kill as a hobby.  They also don't "strangle" in the same way that, say, daddies do.  They…

Sex talk.

I got a series of increasingly agitated messages from an old woman who was trying to find her grandson.  When she got to the crying stage, I finally answered the phone while she was leaving her message and told her that I was sorry, but she was calling the wrong number and she needed to stop calling, that I didn't…

A few years ago I kept getting calls for some woman named "Nelda (my last name)", including one from someone who knew me, knew where I lived, knew my phone number, and had to be as dumb as dirt to get it wrong.
I took great satisfaction in knowing, judging by the message, that there would be upset because she'd made…

Most things are better than Titanic.

They're only dangerous because they're so tasty.

This is the book that taught me what I needed to know to protect myself from the free-range pit bulls that lived next door.

What nation would that be?

That's pretty much what he and the horse were living on while they were on the island.  It's probably the scene where he's trying to get the horse to eat the seaweed.

There are some old B&W stills of Mickey Rooney in National Velvet in The Black Stallion.  They're hanging on the wall in the barn.
Maybe that's what your mind is thinking of.

I believe Cass was bred by the Kurth family in Lufkin.  The man (now deceased) who trained for them later owned a qh stud I bred a mare to, and I still have the offspring, an old boy of 28.  Still looks good.

What you really need to fear is other people.  Sad, but what can you do?