He has the "Top. Men." line.

NERD ALERT. Actually, Porkins reports he has a problem. Biggs suggests he eject or pull up, then Porkins last words are, "No, I'm all right," before his ship explodes.

Oh boy, Santa Claus: The Movie is the moviest 80's movie ever movied. Made for essentially the sole purpose of having Dudley Moore play an elf. I hope Lithgow got a nice portion of the film's ridiculous $50 million budget.

I understand not bringing it up becaue it is a small thing, but I thought he was wonderful as Barney's dad on How I Met Your Mother. He and Neil Patrick Harris played off each other beautifully. (I think he's by far the best parent character introduced on the show.) Lithgow trying to be cool to get Barney to accept…

I would've loved to see Lithgow in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," but by the time I saw it Jonathan Pryce had taken over. I'm sure he was different than Lithgow, but I thought he was quite good (I've always liked Pryce anyway.)

If that happened, think of what Gary Lockwood do…

I saw McShane play Max in "The Homecoming" on Broadway and he was great, and that's exactly what I imagine his Al Bundy would be like (if Married with Children was created by Harold Pinter.)

Not a bad observation. Looking back on it, Dreyfuss as an Academy Award winning romantic lead in The Goodbye Girl is even more inexplicable now than it was then. (And it was pretty damn inexplicable then.)

I mean the following in a good way: it's like Lithgow just went all out the whole time thinking, "well, if I'm going too far, they'll say something to reel me back in," and no one ever said anything.

Well, even the way they did it in the film, Lithgow's friendship with Max really resonates. I always liked the touch of Walter wearing Max's hat.

Count me in as a 2010 fan as well. To many it suffers in comparison to 2001, but I like to think of them as two separate, distinct films, and in that sense it holds up remarkably well (the only nit is that the cold war stuff is dated). Plus it has a rock solid cast: Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, and…

When he started doing Bush I thought it was rather spot on. Then he settled into the same laugh lines. Perot went the same way. As was pointed out, he's a self-admitted pleaser, and he'll hand the audience the easy laugh if that's what it takes.

Sex behind the Tasty Freeze is another thing entirely.

For live sketch comedy his approach was spot on. He just had a verve to him that you had to watch.

I'm da Barber of Dabill- Bigaro, Bigaro!

It's bad, it's bad

20 minutes is about half the movie. I'm not really exaggerating all that much. The film itself is around 65 minutes and then has a tediously protracted end credit sequence that goes on forever to get the film to barely feature length.

That Carvey often settles in on a hook doesn't take away from the fact that he can be technically good when he puts his mind to it. I think the reviewer's criticism of Carvey's approach unfairly bled into a criticism of his talent as a mimic.

I was going to bring up Murder by Decree, which I think is great. Plummer is a spot on Holmes, the whole thing is dark and gritty in a good way, and you're correct about the supporting cast which also includes David Hemmings, Donald Sutherland, Anthony Quayle, and Geneviève Bujold.

You make some good points, particularly about Duvall, who is pretty much great in everything, but here seems lost, and, as you say, pushed to the side by Arkin's Freud character. I also agree the mystery isn't much (we do get Olivier in full paycheck-picking-up mode chewing some scenery in flashbacks, which at least…