Fun fact: when the Romans conquered Gaul they thought the way the locals sauteed everything in butter and onion was gross.

Having just visited there, there were several times when I greeted a clerk/server in French, we went on in French for several sentences, then realised we were both English-speaking.

Added to this, women (usually young) with long hair which they toss over their shoulder, oblivious to the fact they they are standing in a line and have just whacked the person behind them in the face.

Ditto on the ketchup, if you only need a tablespoon or two.

This really sounds like a very shallow definition of “psychopath”, which typically refers to someone who is actually insane, versus a sociopath, who is in other respects a lucid, functioning person but with a complete lack of empathy for other people.

I’m upgrading from an 11-year-old Nokia brick - it has no camera, no internet, no flipping - so my concern is less price, and more reliability and ease of use. What’s the Honda Civic of smartphones?

I always thought pugs were ugly, but the darn things have grown on me and now I find them adorable. May you find another wriggly fur baby to love someday.

I tend to be a little slow on the uptake, but when I saw Brick eventually I noticed that the characters were falling into film-noir patterns, and that this was intentional. At times it was hilarious, on a certain level, but it wasn’t a comedy nor was it intended to be a Bugsy Malone kind of satire. When I saw it a seco…

I don’t know if Bercow is a good guy or a villain, but I love the way he shouts “Aw-dah!”

Hey, a beautiful blonde can’t come for your ass?!

When the novel came out I borrowed it from the library, wondering how I was going to finish such a long book in a week. I sailed through it in four days.

Also, Keir Dullea plays her brother, not her partner.

As a cosmic tribute, it so happens that “Bunny Lake” is going to be on the TCM network this Sunday at 8 pm EST, followed by “Blue Denim”.

Darn kids...Who do they think made it possible for women to wear pants to work?

Hey, we invented the internet, you punks!

Re. the Bible comment, as a matter of fact, there were. I think it’s in Ecclesiastes.

“Love means having to say you’re sorry every five minutes.”--John Lennon.

Earlier The Popcorn Champs called Cleopatra a terrible movie that became a blockbuster. Cleopatra was way way ahead of this one. It’s an Afterschool Special.

Obviously masses of people went to see this movie, but I was a college student myself at the time and everyone I knew considered it Hollywood claptrap. Still, of the 11 Popcorn Champs profiled so far, it is only the second one to feature ordinary contemporary life, and sometimes audiences are not looking for escape…

In point of fact, I read “Iron Front”, and saw a flag, and something about political statements, and to the uninitiated, something called “Iron Front” sure sounds like it could be a white supremacist paramilitary contingent, even if in this case it isn’t.