I used to spend many childhood summers in either Montreal or Vancouver with extended family. Got to learn many bad French words from them teehee.

Some years ago, someone told me that if you see Tea Leoni onscreen, and you cover her hair on the side of her head with your hands, then you will see Tom Cruise. Now I can’t unsee that.

Maybe not to present day consumers of classical music. But his GV recordings have certainly been no less popular among pianists. In fact, Lang Lang himself called out the Gould recordings as his inspiration. “Dry and pedantic” is why people like it - he was trying to emulate the sounds of a Baroque era contemporary…

And for those of you acquainted with classical music, Lang Lang was in a bit of critical hot water this month when he released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Nothing wrong with releasing something like this, but for those not familiar - the Goldberg Variations was made famous by Glenn Gould and is the…

Lang Lang himself is the executive producer of this movie - meaning that he’s basically paying (or at least has vast financial incentives) to make a movie about himself. It’s most likely an effort to expand his fanbase to the West via marketing/advertising - that’s why someone like Ron Howard was chosen to direct - so…

Lang Lang is the Ron Howard of piano performers - a complete hack.

Now I feel I should reevaluate many of my life choices since the mentioned movies in the comments here are a significant part of my regular rewatch rotation.

I had forgotten about this one, and had been meaning to watch it.

That was one of the facets of the movie that I had struggled with years ago. I didn’t quite understand what he was after - with some of the more mass-appeal bits of humor, music-video style editing, and sentimentality here and there - esp the “I could have done more” cry-fest. Certainly, the sum of the movie overrides…

And that’s precisely why JFK has such tremendous rewatch value. It’s just so darn entertaining.

And that every Jenny has suffered since then upon introducing herself.

That is one of the greater mysteries of home video releases. They literally have it ready to go (for example, you can watch it in 1080 HD on Vudu). But there’s some business disagreements which has led to it not being released on physical media for some reason.

Shawshank is like that one song that your young kids latch onto, play loudly a billion times, then you get so sick of it and now you hate it.

But then to make an educated argument for/against that you would have to actually watch the movie, and that’s asking a lot.

And she’s spewing all the pro-party nationalism as a US citizen.

A bit less these days - esp due to the raging nationalism in China these days - but rent-a-white-guy was a pretty big thing.

Both my wife and I grew up with Pizza Hut back in the days when it was sit-down with pasta and salad courses.

Across from our nearest Pizza Hut is a place called Pizza Bank which appropriated a 70s/80s vintage bank building.

Oh man I remember those buffets. We had one that was $6.99 and I cleaned them out every time and I was rail thin. No weighing that I ever recalled. I think we were in more enlightened times by then.

There’s a Round Table Pizza around here that just recently went out of business. They still had Golden Axe and Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition and they’re completely operational when I went in last year.