They did. It's called Dissentary.

What, you were expecting Rudy Vallee?

To take the same shooting script and see what turned out different regardless, when different director, actors, etc, do it? Maybe he just thought it was an interesting idea?

More true-to-life result: the article hit him kinda hard and resulted in him trying a little harder, hence the subsequent era of Ferrell, Oteri, et al.

It's the result of a legal process too sad and complex to recount.

Just you wait…

Fuck it, why don't we just say everyone in the history of pop culture is great, nay Great, and get it over with.

Title song's pretty good too. I fear this will lead to a whole stream of "yeah, Olivia Newton John was actually secretly pretty great" when actually she wasn't. But hey, credit where it's due.

Pearl Harbor

You may be thinking of a (semi)famous moment on SNL back in the 70s, when they did a sketch set during medieval times, or something, but using the "dialogue" from the Troggs Tapes as the basis for the sketch (or something like that, this is from memory)…it led to Paul Shaffer, who was supposed to say "flogging" in…

Doing Natachkakhan to that song is harder than you might think. Trust me on this.

I did not know that. Now I feel better about listening to it. 😀

Waitress in the Sky is in the Bobby-Dupea-in-the-diner mode of artistic sneering: something that becomes less charming the older and more experienced you get. Misguided pseudo-rebellion that makes you long for a version in which the working-stiff object of derision gets her turn: a depiction of what it's like to work…

The AV Club

Depends on who was in the town car before you.

Delfayo.

What does Burt Reynolds not wanting a roommate have to do with this?

It's when he did the "Got Yer Nose" game that it all went wrong.

Yeah, to me (again, someone who also thought it was a bit overrated, though for different reasons), I think there's basically just a bit of a clash between letter-of-the-law types, who just can't proceed without airtight logic being applied first (the types Hitchcock dismissed as "The Plausibles"), and…

Well, yes and no. I also thought it was a bit overrated. My problem with the beach scene, for ex, is more that it fell into special effects-ville, esp that person-whooshed-offscreen-by-invisible-force moment that's become so that's-so-cool popular lately. And I think Mitchell's talents are probably ultimately in the…