Trouble is, now they just pander to Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. All the current state of the electoral college does is shift around which states get the most power.

Thief is one of the fucking greatest heist movies of all time. You want a badass? Jimmy Caan’s Frank was THE MAN. It totally reshaped how I looked at movie criminals when it came out. Easily James Caan’s best performance. The dialog is ice cold.

Gotta do the whole list!

“...it was built before catalytic converters, so it runs good on regular gas.”

Somewhere around Betty White-awesome, I’m sure.

“I hate Illinois Nazis.”

‘Cop tires, cop engine, cop transmission, cop brakes...’

I always thought if I could go back in time & somehow worm my way into some group, it would be that mid-70s SNL crowd. Awesome, trailblazing & a little nutso. Ah, to be young, drug-fueld, rich & famous!

Don’t forget Wayne’s World!

Ferris Bueller, Risky Business, Cooley High, The Man With the Golden Arm, Roll Bounce, The Color of Money (partially filmed in my regular hangout bar), Thief (also filmed in one of my favorite hangout bars)

Man, I don’t know how she was more into Paul Simon than Dan Aykroyd. When Dan was in Blues Brothers he was actually rather handsome and it seems that everyone who knows him thinks he’s a great guy.

Now I’m thinking about all the Chicago movies I love, outside the John Hughes canon: The Fugitive, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Adventures in Babysitting (even though filmed in Toronto), Save the Last Dance, The Untouchables, Return to Me, High Fidelity, Home Alone (that was my HS’s choir in the church)... I love my…

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As a Chicagoan, I concur wholeheartedly. Granted, the city looks very different from the Chicago of that era, but still... Also every Chicagoan is required by city law to watch The Blues Brothers at least once every year and must be able to quote lines from the movie if stopped randomly on the street... True story!

Now I’m sad she never got to be a grouchy grandmother. She got better with age and started on a high note. Imagine how awesome she would have been at 80! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

This article is the perfect anecdotal antidote to an otherwise shitty-ass news cycle. Thanks for this.

Contemplating marriage, I gave Carrie a sapphire ring and subsequently in the romance she gave me a Donald Roller Wilson oil painting of a monkey in a blue dress next to a tiny floating pencil, which I kept for years until it began to frighten my children

A love of LSD, and the correct way of thinking of tiny babies “When they cry they turn red and look like screaming tomatoes”?

Carrie Fisher really was the living incarnation of the lovable grouchy sitcom grandmother.