That's the one; thanks!

You're equating Pat Boone with the Everly Brothers? Seriously?

I don't know who, but someone did a parody of "Last Kiss" not long after the J Frank Wilson version came out; "Where, or where can my baby be….wait, there's my baby…no, wait, there's my baby!"

T'ain't funny, McGee!

No, the translation I read was by Ann Dunnigan.

*Finally* finished War & Peace. After that, I re-read Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" and then his novelization for 2001, after which I read 2010 to see how it compared to the movie (which I had saved on my DVR). I'm currently slogging my way through The Sound and the Fury, by Faulkner, and will follow-up with the…

I will admit being glib when it came to The Pallbearer, and apologize for that, since you obviously have a strong liking for it, but I have such a visceral dislike of Schwimmer as an actor (he's the weak point of Band of Brothers, though at least there, he's *supposed* to be unlikable), which, to me, goes against any…

One scene from Secrets & Lies that should be mentioned, and is almost as good as the first meeting between Hortense and Cynthia, is the one where Hortense goes to see a social worker (Lesley Manville, who stepped in after an actor Leigh had cast earlier didn't work out) and sees her file for the first time. It's her…

"Young Hearts Run Free" is a cover as well (of a song by Candi Staton).

Well, in the play, Romeo is supposed to fight and kill Paris at the end, but they cut that out, so he's just kind of…there.

Not only that, companies may *say* the market should be left to regulate itself, but they really don't believe that; otherwise, why lobby to pass laws making it harder for the competition?

Does this act also have something to do with why The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and the Discovery Channel et al are pretty much a joke right now?

Sorry, but I didn't laugh at any of that, whereas I laughed a lot at Stage Door's one-liners, like Ginger Rogers' slam of Katharine Hepburn's cooking abilities ("I'll bet you could boil a terrific pan of water"), to Eve Arden's reaction to Rogers' veiled put-downs of hers and Lucille Ball's dates for the evening ("I…

There are men in it, but if you want to watch a actress-dominated ensemble piece from the studio era, Stage Door is much, much better. It has a better cast (Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Gail Patrick, Andrea Leeds, Ann Miller), it's funnier (as well as more heartbreaking), and it doesn't…

A more in-depth book about Sinatra's acting career is Sinatra in Hollywood, by Tom Santopietro.

Other films in competition that year:

Still making my way through War & Peace (3/4 of the way through), but I've put it on hold for some library books. First, I finally read The Girl on the Train. I figured out who the killer was about halfway through (the third narrator, aside from the main character and the dad woman, pretty much gives it away just by…

The movie of Mother Night isn't great - Keith Gordon has always been a filmmaker for me who had potential but who never quite capitalized on it - but it's good, and well worth watching. The main problem with the movie, for me, was the casting of the female lead character; for obvious reasons, there has to be a sense…

In addition to Rum Punch and Out of Sight, I'll also throw in a good word for Maximum Bob (much darker than the TV show that was adapted from it, though I like both equally), Get Shorty (though avoid the sequel, Be Cool, at all costs), and Bandits. I also liked Touch, an outlier in his catalog, and I gather I'm one of…

I think the first time I read something, I just absorb what's going on, while if I re-read it, I try to visualize it. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, though, and it may depend on the book. I never try to imagine voices or a narrator, though; I'm not one of those who are able to instinctively cast a novel while I'm…