I appreciate that you recognize that his first answer would have been inherently unsatisfactory.

No no, not Hagar.  You're thinking of Shane.

Sure they are— it's Sales & Marketing.

Sam?!?  Man, where have you been??

Yet another here who enjoyed the Hitchhikers movie.  Nothing will ever top the radio shows, but the script was after all largely by Adams himself, and really I didn't have problems at all with the casting. (Though it's impossible not to miss Stephen Moore's voice as Marvin.)

It hardly even glitters.  It… glistens sort of…

Night Rally, Allison, I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea, Riot Act, Radio Radio, and American Without Tears would definitely be on there for me.

Well, murder does seem like a potential subtext here.

The miracle of this song is its lyrical efficiency.  In two verses, a chorus and a fadeout line you've got every breakup emotion evoked - jealousy, nostalgia, affection, rage, contempt, heartbreak and resignation, sometimes in the same line.

Eugene Pallette
W. C. Fields
Sydney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre

One of the late-night music TV shows back in the late 70s had a "walk like Elvis Costello" contest for the person who could do the best replica of Elvis's pigeon-toe dance step.

This is always one of my favorite performance clips— Costello looks like he's about to bite the head off the microphone.

I think Oedipa is characterized in a very interesting way— entirely through her actions, to the point that we forget that the revelations and ponderings of the book's narrative voice are in fact her own.  (The book being a rarity in Pynchon's work in not being told from multiple viewpoints.  Actually I guess only Inher…

…it's Arrested Development.

I actually thought Copland, the previous Stallone/De Niro pairing, was not terrible.  Nice performance by Stallone, in fact.

Also, another actor playing Alfred Hitchcock?  Why is everybody being Hitchcock all of a sudden?

When she comes in at the end waving a gun in a complete state of emotional collapse, it's just this perfect, operatic blend of farce and pathos.  That's kind of theatricality I always love in movies when it's pulled off well.

And so many noses!

What, you didn't like Mercedes Ruehl in this?  I really loved the over-the-topness in her performance— it just seemed so suited to the movie's style.

This would actually explain something that always nagged at me— Donald Rumsfeld's press conference on evening of Monday 9/10, the one where he announced that the Defense Department had basically mislaid 3.1 trillion dollars.