You weren't kidding about Mickey Rooney
Christ, it just makes you want to scream at him; "STOP HUMPING MY LEG!" And for so much of his career, he was ubiquitous. He just had to be in every other thing, despite his terribleness.

Yeah, I've never heard of it, but that paintbox sequence was pure acid test fodder. The music was great too, with its guitar noodlings.

Hello, I'm Joe Don Baker.

The show has its moments, but they kind of don't add up. It's sort of annoying that they decided to remake 'Twin Peaks' without any of the interesting parts, and the dialogue is fucking tone deaf, but my least favorite aspect is how -as usual- the whole thing takes place in an American city inhabited by a bunch of…

The book was awesome. The movie sucked.
The book actually manages to convey what a winter in the NW is really like. Not sure I've seen it done before or since.

Ah. Never mind.

Wasn't Gumball Rally Raul Julia's first screen gig?

The Artist Formerly Known As…I have an answer for you, based on living with and working around Americans for all of my life:
Yes. Yes it rarely occurs to many of them that there are rich, well-connected forces that so pervasively control all aspects of media that one may rarely go a single day without being exposed to…

Yeah, at this point it's one of those things that has been co-opted by so many people -a lot of them stupid, terrible and not to be encouraged- that I can't see how your friends have no frame of reference for it. Even if it's the wrong one.

Indeed, pretty much everything that the movie promised about the future of corporate entertainment has come true. A fair amount of it was true at the time.

Lenny Clark needs to put out a book about how lucky he is that there's such a person as Denis Leary.

Let's talk about sunglasses now!

Dave Bow, huh?
The question asker was "Dave Bow." Would that be the Portland Mercury's own Dave Bow? (Or perhaps the Seattle Stranger's Dave Bow; I can't keep track.)

These didactic panels are awesome!

Gee, don't all the rest of you call them "Samosas" and "Tagalogs"?

So, since you're getting around to watching these now…
Be sure to note that almost all his movies are rewrites of Ingmar Bergman films. You've probably already heard this.

Well, and "What's New Pussycat?", except it definitely hasn't aged well, and Peter O'Toole looks like some sort of wax figure.

Make sure to start with "Pearl Harbor!"

My twin likings for Dave Brubeck and John Coltrane are tearing me apaaart!

No, "Bananas" hasn't stood the test of time. It's clear that it wants you to laugh at it, but it isn't really funny enough. "Duck Soup," on the other hand, has.