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Fred Garvin
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Swedish Chef in My Best Friend's Girl would have been a step up.

One-two punch in Fearless
When Rosie Perez breaks down about her baby and then when Jeff Bridges shows her there was nothing she could do.

Ennio Morricone gets so many film assists for his weep inducing scores. CP, Once Upon A Time In America and Once Upon A Time In The West are great examples.

Same hereā€¦

"I want/miss my mom" = waterworks.

"I could have done more" = waterworks.

I remember sitting on mom's lap in the theater bawling my eyes out during that moment and her telling me it was going to be OK.

No, you're not.

Here here. The Kid, too.

I was 7 when I saw Islands in the Stream and cried when George C. Scott was killed. No, it was not by a football.

Bill Duke is the Mayor of Badassville.

Should have tripped them, HP. That's what Leo Durocher would have done.

Speaking of musician films, when they bring out the posters of the departed Funk Brothers during the concert part of Standing In The Shadows of Motown.

No worries, Benjie. I always wondered what happened to Teddy?

Nickleodeon on DVD
Does this mean At Long Last Love will at long last come to DVD? Talk about get drunk and watch bad cinema.

She is hot. However, I would rather hear Albert Collins play more real blues while Shue re-enacts the gymnastics from the Whitesnake "Here I Go Again" video.

I"m always stabbing my daughter with soft pillows and saying "CONFESS! CONFESS" as she giggles her head off. She has 3 last chances.

My daughter LOVES "Daddy movies with the funny robots." Our Christmas tradition, besides Charlie Brown, is MST3K's two holiday films Santa Claus Conquers The Martians and Santa Claus (the awful Mexican film where Santa outwits the Devil).

Sugartits, I hope to say those exact words to my daughter about Zep and homework, but my baking is bad. I'll grill a marainated steak instead.

Garvin Family Trivia
My dad went to high school with Al Downing, who later became known as The Black Whitey Ford and delivered Hank Aaron's #715.