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The movie cheats big time. When movies as flawed as this are winning 'Best Movie' Oscars (along with others like 'The Departed'), it gets harder to see those awards as real artistic indicators anymore. Not that these movies don't have entertainment value to a degree - they do. But best movies of the year? Uh, something's a little off there.

Here he is with his rendition of an ancient Stephen Foster standard. Recorded in 1963.

From 1960-1964, he may have been America's greatest pop-music tenor. His voice was a fine, wide-range instrument.

You do come across a lot like the patient named Ellis. I'm pretty sure he was her favorite - he was never any trouble.

Jeesh, Lawrence. Take a break. Your head is squaring up.

Oh, wait - I just realized - 98 percent of what you do is just post pictures and videos. That means probably not too many thumbs down for you - only whenever you say something, which isn't very often. Now I get why you want a thumbs down program - so you can go crazy using it while not posting many of your own words which would receive the same. Very cunning of you, Jake!

And that's coming from someone who'd vie for getting the most thumbs down of any member here! That's being a good sport - who'da thunk it?

I think that the "hot" designation should not be applied to threads that get 99 percent of its posts from the OP.

Turn off the word filter. That would improve the boards - but maybe just in my opinion. Our more delicate members might not think so.

You could post more often. Certain others (not allowed to cite names) could post less. A lot less.

If you can't figure out what "what a load o' hooey" means, you're even slower than I thought you were. "Hooey" means nonsense - or, more colloquially, bs. My membership in the Donald Sutherland fan club precludes me from any others - just not enough hours in the day, I'm afraid.

The album that's taken from ('Stranded') is one of the most brilliant lp's of the early 70's. Here's another piece from it - the passionate, prayerful 'Psalm'.

Reese is brilliant in that role. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Amy Poehler's character creation for 'Parks and Rec' had its inspiration right there.

What a load o' hooey.

Whenever I'd watch 'Boardwalk Empire' (loved it!) I'd think "she's really a handsome woman" when Kelly was onscreen. I so rarely associate that description with a woman that it's noteworthy to me that it came to mind so regularly. Handsomeness is a particular kind of beauty in a woman, and she's one of the very few I've ever genuinely thought had it.

Agree. It'd been a very long time since I'd been scared by a horror movie, but 'The Ring' did it. I benefitted very much from being out of the loop, so to speak - I had heard absolutely nothing about the movie when I saw it for the first time on The Movie Channel, alone at night. No idea whatsoever as to what the movie was going to be. When I got the chance to watch it a second time - about a year or so later - the first viewing had been so effective that the cold shivers began the very moment the movie started that second time! And I kept being attacked by them throughout the second viewing - that's truly a rare experience. Brilliantly effective movie, and better executed than 'Ringu', which I also saw in between my viewings of the American adaptation. My daughter has never seen it - her boyfriend watched it without her one night and told her about it and how scared he got. Consequently, she's afraid to watch it. But, I think people have heard too much about it now to really experience it the way I did. They know too much for it to have the same effect, I think.

Favorite Matthew Broderick performance - 'Election' (1999). My sympathy was with him completely. What a meanie I am.

Like I said, on the first viewing it keeps you watching. After that, not so much.

Nothing a gun couldn't take care of. But, oh yeah - the Coens thought we were too dumb to figure it out. They decided al we could do was try to talk to the monster. And talk they did. Lots of drawn-out, meandering philosophical entreaties and Tommy Lee soliloquies. Yawn.

Just another Michael Myers except he sometimes likes to flip a coin first. I guess he thinks it makes him interesting. It doesn't.

That could be a dangerous assumption. If you feel it's advisable to give up your anonymity and publish your actual name when posting your opinions, I'd just like to say "nice knowin' ya".

Nothing egregious about it; neither any decline in misswonderly's "behavior". Hers is generally exemplary and I've seen no evidence of decay from that standard. S lut was the perfect word to express the idea clearly. Just because the priggish rule the content here is no reason to become less correct in one's expressiveness. I favor speaking honestly - and the moderator can do whatever the moderator does. Be true to yourself always, missw.

Prolific? Id have used the word "monotonous".

Never realized Harpo had such a pronounced pout.

Harrison Ford made an uncredited appearance in 'More American Graffiti' (1979) - repeating the role he'd played in the '73 original as Bob Falfa. Falfa has become a motorcycle cop in the sequel and appears in just one scene, wherein he pulls over Debbie (Candy Clark) and her boyfriend in their hippie-mobile, arresting the boyfriend for possession of a joint. Ford is not listed in the movie credits. But, unlike Dreyfuss, he wasn't "too big" to at least appear in the sequel (Dreyfuss being the only one who did refuse).