Great, so the psychic nun fighting crime with martial arts ISN'T your next book? Now I really want to read that.

I am shocked! Shocked to discover that a gang of criminals faced with judicial oversight chose to destroy all the evidence.

I had the same problem with the account management page- had to cheat and use a direct link to the cancel page. Seems deliberate.

Giddins is so good on the musical aspect. I fear we won't get volume 3, but I am grateful for these first two. Giddins on the Irish lilt in Crosby's voice is so good, just a bit more technical about it than you'd expect, but worth it.

If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend Gary Giddins' "A Pocketful of Dreams," which traces Crosby's early career and is brilliant about how Crosby understood the new microphone technology's intimacy.

Thank heavens the cat was there to wake you up early for your flight!

I love the Music Box crowds so much lately! Everyone was so into it for all three movies I saw today (not a single cell phone going off!) and the little gasps and oohs and chuckles... And I saw people over 80 and under 25, all crazy excited to be together. Can't wait for tomorrow.

Ah, the City of Detroit Department of Water and Sewage logo: someone getting ready to throw a water balloon (we hope it's a water balloon...).

Well, not my favorite, but Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” surely deserves a mention.

At Time Out Chicago (where we did like our bit of April Fool's japery- stories for another time...), we were all slapping our heads wondering why we didn't come up with this. The execution is so right.

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The whole thing plays better with an audience, judging by today's viewing. The broadly played greed of the characters and antic "get ready for some slapstick" approach actually work (okay, sometimes not). And Buddy Hackett and Jonathan Winters both get to do some great comic reactions.

Very correct answer. I have a deep affection for Slippery People, but it feels more moment-specific than my love of This Must Be the Place. But then Crosseyed and Painless... Agh, don't make me pick.

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Elaine May in the first scene where Matthau meets her at a party just killed. I agree that this is one of the under-appreciated masterpieces of the era. I have a fantasy of a film series of weird romances. This and The Apartment and Dogfight (1991) all make the cut...

I was there as well. Had seen it a number of times, but the crowd reaction made certain parts, that I had never quite appreciated, hilarious.

I’m at a play in London, at the intermission, pushing through the crowd in the theatre bar to get my pre-ordered drink, and a tall lean man pushes in front of me, kind of bumping into me while he fetches his pre-ordered drink. Turns and says ‘I beg your pardon.’ Benedict Cumberbatch.