I don't think that anybody ever knew him as the weirdo with the tube. If you think this is weird, you haven't seen or heard much country.

Not a big fan of the score, Elman uses too much of what I call "beer chords" - those long, languid slide guitar runs. You can listen to the score and it dates the movie to a certain time.

The Litmus Configur-erasion?

Well here goes, hoping to start a dialogue, rather than a monologue, for any of these:

This is a cool race. A guy from my work joined a team a couple of years ago with a clapped-out BMW with quills on the outside, called the porcupine. A take on that joke: What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine? In a BMW, all the pricks are on the inside. 

What about Brahmin accent? My favorite of all the Boston accents.

The imdb trivia section says that Thornton did that as a joke, it wasn't caught until later, and that the Coens didn't think he would be excited there…what does the commentary say?

There are some pretty clear signs that he is impotent - more asexual than either way.

Quit em if you got em

Tom is much more deep than the Barber. The Barber is a cipher, even if he knows who is his and what he's done. He already seems to know he's quite the loser in his introductory monologue (which reminds me of the Bad Santa opening monologue, now that I think about it).

If you want to compare comedians who act, I'll have to say that, as much as it grates me to write this, Robin Williams is a better dramatic actor than Gandolfini. He was perfect in World's Greatest Dad and I haven't really seen him do badly in a non-comedic part.

This, my friends, is why I love the avclub.

Except for all the, you know, death and explosions and stuff.

Fight Club just wasn't my type of movie, but he and Norton were both very good. Kalifornia was another bad accent movie, as was Inglourious Basterds. Although I did grow up in the sticks of California and did know people who talked and looked like that. Maybe that was why I didn't like it all that much. That accent is…

The worst thing about Seven Years in Tibet was his accent. I wish you could hear me imitate it right now, because it's like no accent ever heard - a really prissy Austrian accent mixed with bad Sean Connery trying not to sound like Sean Connery, except you'd still pronounce the esses like esshes, along with a…

Nice call on the bad ska. This was the time when seemingly every movie preview I saw at the theatre had kids going to school, being good kids, then suddenly the wacky ska music and something wacky happening. This was not a good time for either movies or music.

I love the five stages of divorce as told by Arnie: I forget the first two, but the last three are "booze, boners…acceptance."

Tambor was so great in this - the Hankster was never good at being a megalomaniac, as hard as he tried. I never found him that unlikeable, because he kind of knew what a turd he was, and the acting was informed by that, at all times.

He's going for the "that frat that takes anybody who can't get into other frats" look.

The more you drive, the less intelligent you become.