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Sunday, Feb. 12 2:45 PM Honeysuckle Rose. Willie Nelson plays himself, a country singer who spends enough time on the road that his wife (Dyan Cannon) would prefer him to spend more time on the road. One of his band members (Slim Pickens) retires, and is temporarily replaced by his (Pickens', not Nelson's) daughter (Amy Irving). Sparks fly between Nelson and Irving. The film is amiable enough even if it treads no new ground; the first 40 minutes or so has some great documentary-like footage of a community party. (IMDb doesn't state where in Texas this was filmed.) The movie was Oscar-nominated for its song "On the Road Again", which perfectly fits in the context of the movie and has become a standard. In a strong year for original songs, it lost to the title theme from Fame.

He's a good-thinker. Elia Kazan repented by directing On the Waterfront, but that didn't stop the freakout at the Oscars because opposing Communism is badthink.

No; I meant Debbie (well, actually Deborah now) Gibson. It was a reference to Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. Maybe Belinda Carlisle did a movie with Stacey Q or Martika. (Look the last two up on Youtube and prepare to be horrified.)

So will Roman Polanski commit suicide too?

The whitest tennis pro in history:

Follow that up with Zabriskie Point.

Brute Force is excellent. (Some people may be put off by Hume Cronyn in his undershirt, however.)

Nope; Debbie Gibson will be the co-host.

i Actually, Seinfeld was not pitched as a show about nothing. That was Jerry, the show-within-a-show in the three-part (I think) episode when they went out to Los Angeles. "There's trouble on the set of Blossom." I saw an interview Larry David did with Charlie Rose many years ago, and he pointed out that Seinfeld was pitched as a show about how a stand-up comedian gets his material. And if you watch Seinfeld, there's a lot all of us can relate to: low talkers, high talkers, close talkers, re-gifters, and the like.

I totally forgot about the Marie Dressler nomination for Emma (no relation to the Jane Austen book). There's also Europa, Europa nominated not for Best Foreign Film, but its screenplay. And not that they could get it from Universal, but the Mae West movie Every Day's a Holiday was nominated for its art direction.

Perhaps this belongs over in the Games & Trivia section. But I noticed that in the alphabetical airing of movies as part of 31 Days of Oscar this year, the schedule is going from Dreamgirls at 8:00 tonight to Fame at 10:30. Note that they're not running any movies whose titles begin with the letter E. Which E movie(s) would you like to have seen in this year's 31 Days of Oscar?

The choral version of Pachelbel's Canon from the opening of Ordinary People.

I thought it was Pepe Le Pew that imitated Charles Boyer.

Look at those gestures:

I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...

It depends on whether it's a man or a woman, and what type of modern movies they like. I got my niece The Long, Long Trailer for Christmas and she was really excited because she had just been watching I Love Lucy reruns. I bought her father Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. It's funny because it's still all true today.

I ain't paying diddly-squat to comment on a message board.

Black Sunday (1977) Slow, slooow, s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w movie about Black September (the Palestinian terrorist group that killed all those Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics) plotting to commit a massive explosion at the Super Bowl. Marthe Keller plays the chief Black September operative. Bruce Dern plays her Goodyear blimp-piloting boyfriend who will pilot the blimp with the explosives over the Super Bowl. Robert Shaw plays a Mossad agent on the trail of the plot. Fritz Weaver plays Shaw's FBI counterpart. John Frankenheimer directed, and some of the Super Bowl scenes are reminiscent of Madison Square Garden scenes from The Manchurian Candidate. He has a sure hand directing, but the script drags the movie down interminably, running over 140 minutes. Did I mention that the movie is slow? 6/10 for the good idea and the archive footage. Sober Pat Summerall, for one. And the old Orange Bowl (with the Bicentennial logos!) and Miami Dolphins owner Joe Robbie playing himself.

I think it went off the Cassandra Crossing.

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Are they breaking windows (and more) like in Berkeley? My other point is that some forms of intolerance are treated much more benignly than others. Look at how many people on social media are downplaying what happened at Berkeley or even suggesting that the people who agree with Yiannopoulos are really the ones to blame. It's as awful as blaming a woman for being raped because she dressed provocatively. If the violence were going in the other direction, there's no way we'd be getting such equivocations.

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I should also add that I've set up my Linux box to be able to toggle between a European English keyboard (to make typing foreign characters like the ß easier), and a Cyrillic keyboard, so I can write things like спасибо when I need to. But I don't know what keyboard layouts have things like the musical symbols. And if I want to type a language I don't know like Korean, it's hunt through the Unicode character map to find Hangul like 감사헙니다.

That, and a Unicode character finder: ♫ is U+266B; I don't know that Windows will let you enter characters that far into Unicode without cutting and pasting. (The second half of ISO-8859-1, I know you can. But I'm on Linux now.)

How are the Oscar nominees actually decided? (Seriously, I don't know.)