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How about “None of the above”? Is this something that is really necessary?

With regards to “The Innocents”....

With regards to Coal Miner’s Daughter, props should be given to Loretta Lynn herself, who personally selected Spacek for the role, and worked with her on the accent and singing.

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And the “winner” of this tournament will get to challenge this song for the ultimate prize:

Can we finally admit that “Jaws” is one of the greatest movies of all time, to be mentioned in the same breath as “Vertigo” et al.?

They have many children and grandchildren, though. Raise a glass to them this weekend.

How about a follow-up list of TV-to-Movie adaptations done RIGHT?

DC very much wants to be its own state; it definitely has the population.

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Honorable Mention (when they were choosing our national anthem, this one came in second - by one vote):

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Got a better one for Virginia. Not only an important - and too often overlooked bit of history, most of it was actually filmed in that state.

I’d have gone with “Escabana in da Moonlight”, Jeff Daniels’ comic look at life in the Upper Peninsula.

Since the trip was all a concussion-induced hallucination, technically Dorothy never left Kansas....

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Ya know, for the Best Rhode Island Movie, I’d go with this one. So it’s a concert film - sue me....

I love these “50 States, 50 Movies” lists. You really have to know your movies, and there’s rarely a single “right” selection for a state. I should know; I made my own list:

I understand the principle behind reparations (honestly, “restitution” would be a better word, but the time for that argument has come and gone), but there are still the huge questions of whose tax dollars pay for it, and who gets how much money. My family (on both sides) arrived in this country from eastern Europe