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I have been on a random ‘90s sequel kick, apparently, but there a surprising number of “names” in Scream 2, which I just saw the other day. David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, and Jamie Kennedy return; but then you also have Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Portia de Rossi, Rebecca

My neighborhood did National Night Out and they showed this movie on a big screen at Target Field. This is one of those movies that is “fun” as a kid and “sad” once you’re an adult. And, yes, she totally dropped it on purpose!

I’ve heard of getting Botox in your armpits to prevent sweating, but never the feet!

I first learned about this when my mom had to explain the throwaway line in Batman Forever where Riddler says to Two-Face, “Very few people are both a summer and a winter, but you pull it off beautifully.”

Oh my god!! I rented that movie as a kid all the time but always had to fast forward that part until Gizmo shows up.

This has revived so much cinematic childhood trauma, and I can’t decide which was worse: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (because I forgot every single detail of the book when I saw it, while my friend was all, “You didn’t remember that?”) or Jumanji, which is just a damn cruel movie.

I’ve been an election judge for years and I’m hoping for humanity’s sake that it’s the former. But he is still a moron; unless there is explicitly a Black Lives Matter party on the ballot, that shirt is perfectly fine to wear!

The House Bunny was the only other big movie that she was the lead in, but she also shows up in Lost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain. And those were almost 20 years ago, too. Get off my lawn.

I was a huge wrestling fan as a kid, and WWE famously won the “Monday Night Wars” because Monday Night Raw (USA) ended up defeating WCW Monday Nitro (TNT) in the ratings. WWE left for TNN/Spike TV in 2000 because the chairman, Vince McMahon, hated that for two weeks of the year, USA would bump them for the Westminster

She’s not even old. It’s Hollywood. She’s 11 years older than Will Ferrell and was his mother in STEPBROTHERS.

I’m gonna screw this up, but I read a great book that is an oral history of this movie. It got nominated for the WGA award in either Original or Adapted, and there was wide speculation it could get an Oscar nomination, but there was disagreement where to submit it. I want to say the Oscars insisted it go in Original

I still remember her appearing at the Oscars and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY writing “she showed up looking more Babe than babe.”

I think there was an aspirational aspect to it, too. The characters in CLUELESS weren’t rich in the typical upper-middle class white nuclear family often represented in media at the time (90210, Dawson’s Creek, most teen rom-come). The characters were unabashedly loaded.

I forget if they explain how Murray knows, but there’s a subtle part at the party where Christian tries to see if the bartender will serve him (flirting?) and is dancing with a boy at the same time he’s dancing with Cher. I remember it being way over my head as a kid and when I watched it later it was like “Ohhhh,

She is unexpectedly hilarious in Catfight, which is a very weird movie.

It’s weird because Amber is kind of a bully and antagonist, but she’s still in their social circle. Cher is especially hurt after Tai gets more popular and starts buddying up with Amber.

I also love when he barks “Get out of my chair!” at poor terrified Brittany Murphy.

Also, it’s MURRAY that figures it out! Which is in the scene in the Jeep as they accidentally go on the freeway, which makes me laugh so hard every time I watch it.

He had a memorable guest spot on the original  reincarnation of “Will & Grace” as a young divorce lawyer who ends up being a shark. He throws money at Megan Mullally and says something like “This is for a bikini wax because I prefer a clean working space”

Mariah has always been great at what order the songs in an album are on, and the flow of the last three of Rainbow (Petals, Rainbow Interlude, Thank God I Found You) is quite masterful.