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Well, it was Arkansas.

Was it Al Franken who in one of his books referred to Hannity in really oversized letters and Colmes in teeny-tiny print?

I don't know about funny, but I once caught a Larry King interview with an ancient Berle, and at one point Berle, who had been waving his cigar around, tried to put it in his mouth and bumped his forehead instead. He instantly said, "I thought I was taller."

"He just went sailing right out there!"

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.

I just remember that when I made it my mission to watch all the Best Pictures many years ago, I put Gigi near the bottom. Something about the pacing just killed me - everything I thought it was about to end, it just. kept. going.

It's Popeyes all the way down.

Gendry finally makes landfall?! Spoiler alert!

"I'm old! I'm confused!"

I know what you meant, but the word order suggests Eddie Murphy as Batman and Bill Murray as Robin.

Norman Taurog won Best Director for 1931's Skippy, based on a comic strip.

Warwilf?

Slumdog Millionaire

Such a nasty procrastinator!

Fun fact: A Bowery Boys movie was once nominated for an Oscar by accident, a case of two very different movies sharing the same title.

I'm in the same boat - Ordinary People is my primary Mary Tyler Moore reference. I think I've seen some Dick Van Dyke episodes, but I don't know if I've ever seen a full episode of the MTM Show, so when I think of her, this is what I think of.

My sole knowledge of Mannix:

"Lousy Riverdale punks!"

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Whither Vince Offer?