I'm partial to the Der Kommisar-esque new wave song from the episode where the Belchers are kidnapped on the cruise ship. The one the Captain blasts when Bob tries to alert a passing boat.

Great story. Glad you finally found the song.

Are you stuck because you spent the last piaster you could borrow?

I love that song. Check out Billy ("Me and Mrs. Jones") Paul's cover if you haven't already. He replaces Paul's friends and family with what amounts to a roll call of civil rights heroes.

"Used To Be My Girl" - OJays
"Girl Afraid" - The Smiths
"When Will I See You Again" -The Three Degrees
"Mindless Child of Motherhood" - The Kinks
"Busy Doin' Nothing" - Beach Boys
"Easy Livin' " - Uriah Heep
"Abba Zabba" - Captain Beefheart
"Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got" - Four Tops

Considering that R Kelly, John Lennon and James Woods are also being discussed in reference to their personal and political actions, I think the question is being taken both ways.

Polanski: Repulsion, Cul de Sac, Rosemary's Baby, Macbeth and Chinatown are all tremendously original and accomplished films. Knife in the Water, The Tenant and The Pianist are also great.

I've loved The Who since I first heard Won't Get Fooled Again on the radio when I was 7. Sell Out, Who's Next and Quadrophenia are masterpiece albums. They were also the best live band during the classic rock era. But I don't think they've done their legacy any favors with the constant song licensing and greatest hit…

I miss the pre-9 11-reactionary-meltdown Woods. Before contracting Voight's disease he turned in a number of indelible performances. I think he stole Casino from DeNiro and Pesci. Almost stole it from Sharon Stone too.

Little bit of Kilroy Was Here by Styx. Little bit of that Elder album by Kiss. Lots of Deep Purple-esque yowling by the lead singer. I'm sure Uriah Heep was also an influence.

Viridiana doesn't have to stay at home. She can tell Jorge to fuck off, head to town and get a job. She could choose to stay with Jorge and demand co-control of the estate. The point is that Viridiana wasn't considering any choices before because she wasn't living in the real world. Now she is, and whatever she ends…

The actress who played Viridiana, Sylvia Pinal, had similar feelings about the ending. When she brought them to Bunuel, he argued that Viridiana now has the opportunity to find fulfillment in her life by working the land, marrying, raising children, etc. It's the kind of consolation you'd expect from an old world…

Viridiana was made to piss off Franco as much as the Pope. Just as Don Jaime and the beggars did their worst under the cover of religion, Franco oppressed Spain by leveraging the church's support - or at least complicit silence. That Bunuel used Franco's invitation to make that point, even allegorically, is maybe the…

In his autobiography My Last Sigh, Bunuel wrote that he wanted to stage a conversion on his deathbed to fool family and clergy. He may have been giving himself some cover for the possibility of genuine repentance, but I think he remained devoted to surrealism, atheism and martinis until the end.

Bunuel's feelgood masterpiece is Los Olvidados. The ending alone out-feelgoods Viridiana, Chinatown and Godfather Pt. 2 combined.

I posted my movies before remembering I mortally wounded 2 college friendships by taking them to see Tough Guys Don't Dance. Oh God, oh man … 30 years has not diminished my shame.

Thanks for freeing the long-suppressed memory of seeing a double feature of The Golden Child and Over The Top during college. My friends and I tried to laugh our way through the former but it was too boring, and an overindulged Eddie Murphy was no help. We were too tired to make it through the latter. I couldn't get…

But there are some successes, which is enough for sadistic artists to justify the terror they inflict on their collaborators. Don Van Vliet / Capt. Beefheart supposedly read up on psychological warfare and interrogation techniques at the LA Public Library prior to making Trout Mask Replica. His logic was that…

You're right, but compared to Straw Hat and Shakey's, Pizza Hut was a real upgrade to Orange County kids in the '70s. Just as Round Table almost seemed gourmet in the '80s.

Despite your boss's flaws, he sounds like a real Fezziwig.