Well, getting laid off isn't very exciting. I just read an eye-witness account of a furious mob of poo-flinging clowns, so my anecdote standards are pretty high right now.

So what was he fired for?
Making fun of Lorne behind his back? Making fun of Lorne to his face? Spitting gasoline in Lorne's face?

Actors are also a problem, though. AIP had Vincent Price and Ray Milland. The old Universal B horrors had Boris Karloff. Hammer had Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. You really do need leads with that thing pretentious people call "gravitas."

Movies have always been bogged down by cost. I figure the way around this is for movies to be made sort of like how the first books were made in those smelly olden-days when books were as relatively expensive to make as movies are now: by monks for wealthy patrons.

Yeah, you are totally right about the irony. The old Hammer movies were excellent in large part because absolutely everyone involved took their jobs seriously. Even when things had to be done in a hurry, or on the cheap, the people involved always seemed to be trying to make the best movie they possibly could. No…

Why are we not in a golden age of B-Movies right now?
Digital video is cheap to shoot, you can edit video and do passable CGI on a good home computer, and you can generate world-wide buzz with just a single clever trailer uploaded to you-tube.

Klinger?
No way, the answer is B.J. Mike Farrell almost single handedly destroyed that show. A dull, do-no-wrong family man played by an actor with no comedic aptitude whatsoever. And then he grew that damned moustache…

And then an angel will notice us and we'll both quickly go back to singing.

Victor, ten billion years from now, in our ten billionth year of non-stop singing in the Heavenly choir, perhaps we'll see each other and remember this moment.

Lots of stuff people post in here is worth a tattoo. I have ICE CREAM tattooed on my right palm and OWNS on my left.

Don't Christian marriages continue into death? Never had it adequately explained to me. If a spouse dies and the survivor remarries, does s/he get two spouses in Heaven? And the guy who dies in a wreck on his way to his wedding, he has to go without for all eternity?

The Pineapple Express guys
That bloody breakfast had happy-ever-after written all over it.

Is there programming in Canada that isn't hockey related? I think once the CBC stopped to show Burton Cummings handing an award to Joni Mitchell, but then it was right back to Coach's Corner.

Canadian Accent?
Her example wasn't a good one, because it sounded like she was learning to lose an accent more than gain one.

"Why's this stupid thing telling me to hoist a steel girder over my head? Where would Mercutio find a steel girder and why would he…? Wait… Lee MAJORS?"

Becker makes me want to be a mid 20th-century French tough-guy. "Back away from the grisbi and no one gets hurt!" I'll bellow menacingly.

He's right, Jacques Becker really is the cheese
Just a heads-up to anyone who loves prison break movies, Le Trou is the best of the best. A good hour of it is just hammering away at concrete. You won't even pause it to take a whiz; you'll completely forget you have a bladder, its just that engrossing.

I sure hope S.O.S. isn't outdated. I've got it smeared in blood on my front window right now.

Telegrams are outdated?
Since when? I use them all the time.