Nah, I know the “flying wedge”, but I only heard the horse-tripping device described once or twice, so it may have gotten garbled.

I thought that was the “Flying ‘W’”, but it might well have had aliases.

Interesting. I was thinking myself that there might have been a “second unit director” responsible for the particularly “flat” scenes, but maybe they really were meant “ironically”.

“an end to sex?” I’ll believe that when I find the beginning.

Or you’re Nixon. I’ll believe that until proven wrong.

People’s definitions of “friend” do vary pretty widely. I recall from my brief stint as a Cutco salesman (discussed at length with other “survivors” in this very forum some years back) they asked us during training to make a list of our friends (this was to be our starting prospective customer list, as local…

I’m fairly baffled that any human spends as much as one, but I guess gum and tobacco chewers pull up the average.

NObody expects the Hutterites!

I’m vaguely remembering that Murray’s parts were originally accompanied by the actual guitar riff from “Mrs. Robinson”, but I guess that was another one of these “music rights” casualties that plague old TV shows.

I believe that was the cliffhanger finale of the recurring The Days of the Week soap opera parody.

That may be part of the answer — While it doesn’t have much staying power with adults, it’s still a very strong kids’ movie.

In those last days before VCRs were a standard household appliance, I recall seeing E.T. several times in the theater, but indeed I haven’t found it necessary to watch it again since the later ‘80s.

<Discreetly rolls down sleeve to conceal elaborate 1910 Fruitgum Company tattoo and leaves for a just-remembered appointment>

I regret to say, Captain Noah actually got some respect from my grade school classmates. Gene... did not.

Don’t you dare leave out out Leo McKern!

I find that believable. I never saw her actual show, but she made a fair number of talk show appearances when I was a kid. I remember my parents thinking she came off like a jerk, and I also recall a couple incidents of seeming friction between her and the various hosts if she didn’t feel she was getting sufficient…

Oh, I get it. In fact, one of my grade school friends’ father was Captain Noah’s sound guy at WPVI. Unfortunately, I don’t recall any stories, but I’m sure I would remember anything notably awful.

I think you may have strayed into the wrong part of the web, sir. JSTOR is over there...

More to the point, by the time she was anywhere close to Mirren’s age, Catherine was probably about 100 pounds heavier. She should reasonably have to put on more weight than DeNiro did for Raging Bull.

He looks like he stepped out of some Soviet constructivist ocelot poster.