craigward, I think your first point is spot-on, but I don't think anyone wants the core city. Yeah, there are a few neighborhoods- mainly close to downtown- that are salvageable, but the cost to reclaim the city from the blight of urban decay that's been spreading for over 40 years would be exorbitant even if there…

Also, when David Hemmings buys it in Charge of the Light Brigade.

Lesser tear-jerking scenes
Henry V (Branagh's, not Olivier's)
-After Agincourt, when Fluellen (Ian Holm) brings the news that some of the French had gotten into the van and killed the unarmed boys.
-Before Agincourt, the St. Crispin's Day/Band of Brothers speech.

Il Postino
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Harold and Maude
Cinema Paradiso
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
City Lights (and nearly every other Chaplin film)

"THIS is decadent….
…and I went to Miami with Darryl Strawberry."

Me too. I thought that was total snark on Scrubs' cutaways.

Now I'm hoping they cancel summer.
Anything to put this klunky krapfest to death.

Grand Rapids and Uncle Nino
It's not an Italian thing.

@EvelKareebel

Make mine Ring Lardner- "Alibi Ike" and "You Know Me Al". But I do love Kinsella's "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy".

50 Cent
is only playing selected dates on the tour, and this one wasn't selected.

It was for Cling Free, and, yeah, it was real.

@Hole In The Head

@Elitist Trash

BTW, there aren't a ton of books in the non-fiction sports genre I rate as great, but "Ball Four" is one that does. The only other books in the genre I'd rate as highly are Terry Pluto's "Loose Balls", an oral history of the ABA, Peter Golenbock's "Bums- An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers" and David Maraniss'…

At the time it was published, and for quite a few years after, iirc, there wasn't another tell-all about professional sports. While not directly cited in the SNL Chico Escuela "Bad Stuff 'bout the Mets" bit, "Ball Four" was the main- and probably only- influence for it, and that bit wasn't written until '78 or '79,…

"I actually knew a kid who did that back in grammar school. Fucking hated him."

Cult?
I thought the champagne klatsch was a group of lesbians _before_the Indigo Girls reference, so the fight club thing took me by surprise. But from the experiences I enjoyed as a student at a major Midwestern university, I tend to think that all groups of women together alone are lesbians until I deliver them some…

@Elitist Trash

@Frito Pendejo