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My wife and I saw it in the theater when it first came out and had a great time. She laughed all the way through it. Yeah, there were quite a few shmeless jokes, but I saw it mainly for Carell and Judd Apatow (the director and co-writer) who produced Freaks & Geeks. Catherine Keener turned out to be a nice extra. The film had a bit more heart than I expected, and yeah, much of the immaturity on display was at the expense of the male characters, showing them to losers and so on. I'd like to see Carell's new film, Little Miss Sunshine, but don't recall seeing it in release yet. Maybe it came and went quickly, I don't know.

That's just wrong!

Sounds happenin'!!!

Indeed. (Not to mention "Davis Cup.")

I LOVE Hampton Hawes...no, I LURV him!

Yes indeed. I couldn't agree more.

I wonder if Another Workout is gonna have some extra, unwanted print on the cover. Kind of hope not.

It's nice, solid, damn good. Not change-your-life good, but you-should-get-it good.

Well, to be fair, the whole "Clark Kent is just Superman with glasses" thing is a basic convention of the Superman comic which you just have to accept if you want to go along for the ride. Like the fact that Superman can fly, which doesn't make any sense, either.

Strange, for a long time I've considered In the Wee Small Hours as "heavy" and Only the Lonely as self-parody. Well, hey, to each his own.

He was, as Ernist Borgnine put it, a tough little monkey.

Quite a few years ago, before the DVD came out, I got to see the original, 1944, Big Sleep at the Pacific Film Archive. They also showed a half-hour documentary that compared the two versions, told why the film was changed (basically what ghost says above) and even showed scenes from the two versions back-to-back that were shot differently or had a different supporting actress. Fascinating, and lucid. Guess what? The DVD with both versions also has this same mini-documentary! One of the best extras ever.

Oh...THAT one! Thanks. Another album to keep an eye out for. I like Pearson, so I think I'll enjoy this.

When I was 17 I didn't know anything about jazz! Happy Birthday!!

I actually didn't know it was Hank's birthday but just happened to play Dippin'. Nice.

Full agreement.

Well, speaking as one of the victims of his market manipulation in California, fuck the bastard. That's about all the compassion I have for someone who ripped me off and laughed about it. Word. He may have come from humble beginnings and had a minister father, but somewhere along the way he turned into an evil scumbag. Good riddance.

Happy Birthday!! (You run one of the best music stores I've ever visited. )

Apparently the flirty horse-race exchange was actually written after the film was already completed in order to spice it up (& in order to insert it they removed some necessary plot exposition, making the already arcane plot completely unintelligible). I've seen both versions of the film back-to-back and the later, even less intelligible, version is the more entertaining one, I've got to admit. And maybe I'm just slow, but I still couldn't figure out exactly who killed who, or why, even in the first version.

Oops, did I speak too soon? Ubu?

The Big Sleep, of course.

I entirely agree. And I never liked the pre-printed set numbers, either.

I say more power to 'em.

...Something that never should have been invented.

I don't have this and really, REALLY wish I did. Missed it when it was out, and it's turned out to be the hardest to find of all the OOP Conn 10" doubles. ...But I like what I've heard of Watkins.