Same here. The most popular students were popular precisely because they were nice and easy to talk to.

Normally, I sort of sneer at how heavily these lists are tilted towards more modern movies (these kids today...), but I genuinely can’t think of a single high school movie made before the 1970s. Maybe Rebel Without a Cause, but if I remember correctly, very little of the film actually takes place in a high school…

PS- love the picture of the Cavalier!

Dogs at restaurants are fairly common in Europe. The key is that there is an understanding that you only bring a well-behaved dog. When I lived in Germany, I regularly brought my calm and obedient Duck Tolling Retriever. She pretty much just made herself comfortable under the table and didn’t bother anyone.

Marvel’s parent company isn’t as starved for cash right now as DC’s is. Marvel has a little more of a buffer against failure, although that buffer is looking weaker and weaker these days.

A whole lot of primary care clinics are owned by hospitals, so yes, that pain treatment model did extend to the outpatient setting. I worked in one at the time. I never once encountered a drug rep trying to push their brand of opiates, but I sure as hell heard from the regulatory compliance officer of the hospital on…

I read the article to see just how little I would understand.

Who was he in Hoosiers? They showed us that movie so many times in grade school that I feel like I should recognize his role right away.

I’m not going to let Purdue completely off the hook, but the real villain in the opioid crisis was the Joint Commission (known at the time as JCAHO), the quasi-governmental body that certifies health care facilities and organizations. They were the one who pushed that “pain as the 5th vital sign” and all the mandatory…

Man, he has the deadest of dead eyes.

I guess criminal or exploitative behavior in their personal lives was the line, because Cosby’s act was pretty inoffensive.

Glad to see that Stan Freberg has not been completely forgotten. My dad used to play his albums fairly often, but he seemed to be completely unknown among my friends. “How can you never have heard The Old Payola Roll Blues?”, 8 year old me wondered.

Like, I know this sounds crazy, but what if someone did a movie about three attractive, intelligent women who use their brains to investigate and solve a crime, rather than just posing and spouting off one liners and doing choreographed Kung Fu moves?

I’d argue that the “Girl Power” moniker for the original Charlie’s Angels was a retrospective justification. Look up “Jiggle TV” on Google, and guess which show you’ll see prominently in the results? Empowering women probably wasn’t the priority of the executives who created Charlie’s Angels.

Also, shaming people not seeing your movie... has that ever worked?

Cloud isn’t a trained actor by any stretch. Plucked off the street by a casting scout, who spotted him in Manhattan, Cloud found himself reading for the role of Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on HBO’s Euphoria.

Big especially, he was never impacted by the financial crisis of 2008 or no other wall street drops since then??

This list kind of confirms a pattern in my memory of cinema in the 1990s... the hit movies of the first half of the decade were a little more talky and plot heavy, whereas the second half trended more towards simpler concepts but bolder spectacle. There are obvious exceptions, but the pattern does appear to hold.

Crimson Tide was on the list, and I recall watching that very early in the summer movie season, like before Memorial Day...

The Haunting demonstrates brilliantly that you don’t need to show the audience anything supernatural or have any jump scares and it can still be terrifying...