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Honky Tonk Freeway kept me highly amused on several Saturday afternoons watching HBO. It's a near-completely unknown now.

Really? At the time it came out, it was the "movie everyone had to see" alongside The Big Chill and Broadcast News. Although it came out back when a VCR was still something not every household had, so I guess I could see how a lot of people could miss it.

In his stand-up routines, Murphy often mentioned how much he looked up to Cosby during his childhood and early career. I can understand him feeling conflicted now and deciding not to jump into the fray, even if it would be a guaranteed hit.

I'm lucky in this regard, since The Sign by Ace of Base a) doesn't get played much nowadays, and b) isn't all that good in retrospect.

At least in Groundhog Day, the resolution comes when Phil realizes he's been a jerk and that his sole motivation in life has been to get the things he wants. It's when he puts all that aside by not pretending to be a better person and actually becoming one, that he's allowed to move forward.

Looking back, the casting was utterly insane and Joel Grey in yellowface is now pretty cringe-worthy, but to 13-year-old me that film kicked every kind of ass.

As much as I loved the Bond movies I grew up with, I'm just as big a fan of Craig's Bond, if not more so. No matter how much fun the camp Bond had been, it was getting old and stale, like Python fans repeating the same Holy Grail lines rather than come up with a new joke. If it took Meyers to force them out of their

The point is that it never comes up. Guys never get told to do any of these things, because nobody ever expects them of men, while women will encounter them continually.

My name is rare enough in the US that I've only encountered one fictional character with it, and he was too neutral and obscure to sully it. He was in the Johnny Depp film, Chocolat, which is also the only well-known US film to have a character with my last name (though not the same character, unfortunately).

I didn't know until now that the character's name was Sapito. I always thought Indy was saying "Adios, stupido."

"a role where I didn't have severe mental or emotional problems" wow, that was a Freudian typo.

I haven't listened to him in years, but I liked Billy Joel back in the 80s (although a lot of his work is corny, flawed, seriously lacking in self-awareness, and cringe-worthy in hindsight). What I really couldn't stand were Billy Joel fans.

Yep, forgot about that one. I think he was fairly sane in The Birdcage, too.

I'm trying to think of a role where I didn't have severe mental or emotional problems, or at the very least major trauma. Moscow on the Hudson, maybe, but even that was swapping 'comic doofus who's not all there' for 'funny foreigners'.

Plus, he was never "the magical retard who taught us all a little about life." That was the role that convinced me he wasn't just another mass-produced pretty boy.

Uh-huh. Big, shocking reveal that a comic book character is going to die. Really, we mean it, it's for good this time.

How did Logan and 60 Minutes get conned? Simple - they wanted to.

I was once getting a lapdance in a club when "The Saga Begins" (aka Weird Al's version of Star Wars based on American Pie) started playing (I can only guess it was on their playlist because nobody there spoke English). It was then followed by "Butterfly Kisses" which pretty much finished off that mood.

I just want to go on record as a lifelong Bond fan that I never hated Timothy Dalton. License to Kill wasn't great, but The Living Daylights was pure Bond goodness. If you doubt this, give it another watch, but preface it with at least 2 or 3 of Moore's films so you can see just how refreshing a change he was.

I think you need to review what the 'auto' means in 'autobiography'.