I always think of To Kill a Mockingbird as a Halloween movie. The walk home from the Halloween pageant when the kids are being followed is truly frightening.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe! It's always winter but never Christmas in Narnia until Lucy et al. arrive…

I will venture to say it is a great movie. It feels more like a play (was it ever a play?). I've never thought of it as a holiday movie but it might as well be.

The song "You're so Vain" was in fact written…..by me.

I only watched like one episode of this funny, but I always loved the fact that Ray's parents were named Frank & Marie, like my own grandparents.

Jane Kaczmarek *IS* a combination of my mom and her sister. Jane is from Wisconsin and my mom is from Wisconsin…so it's the face, the hair, the voice, the yelling…everything. I can totally relate. ….And my dad has been known to walk around the house in nothing but his BVDs.

You're right…that part was kind of exciting to me, but for different reasons (i.e., being a 9 year old girl obsessed with makeup).

Boring movie (despite the terrifying Tim Curry version of Satan). Great soundtrack.

I posted upthread: he eventually admitted that he was in a deep deep depression at the time and trying to avoid his loved-ones through all these adventures. I haven't read his book…sounds interesting!

I grew up in Dallas, saw a news article about his facial reconstruction (where they basically made his nose out of his thumb or something similarly crazy), and then shortly after happened to see him in person. He looked….raw.

Yeah, I can't remember if it's from the book or an interview that I saw, but Beck Weathers - after the fact - admitted that he was in a deep deep depression and trying to hide from his family by pursuing these nutso "adventures." He seems to have a little more perspective on life now…but it says a lot that he…

Kudos the author for remembering Bran Van 3000. For some reason, my college dorm room tv got Much Music (Canadian MTV) and they played "Drinking in LA" constantly. I don't think I ever actually heard it on the radio or anywhere else. Ah, freshman year (sigh…)

Wow…that was a totally dismissive take on Little Darlings. For shame! Okay, maybe it doesn't hold up so well, but Kristi McNichol gives a helluva performance in this movie. The scene where she reveals to Tatum O'Neal that she's the real contest winner is actually very moving.