Sure. I'll give this a go. Thanks for the warning and I'll put my MST3K hat on first.

Slightly off-topic: There are over 3,800 Netflix Genre Codes but none for Christmas movies. Three thousand eight hundred. But if you're looking for Steamy Gay & Lesbian Movies from the 1980s (#4324) - you're in. Just a personal pique that comes up every year around this time. . .

Gosh... Many, Many, Many years ago I had access to a storage building of "National Screen Service". It's the place where the movie theaters would acquire the posters and 8x10 photos from the movies that were coming or they were currently showing. After the local theatre would finish showing the movie that week, they were required to send all the posters and photos they had on display, back to National Screen Service (the theatres were not allowed to keep anything).

I remember being inside the storage building... it looked like a library with shelves and shelves of paper material. Most items were not filed alphabetically, but rather by the date they got the material returned and then just put on the shelf.

I remember seeing the original posters and lobby cards for "Horse Feathers", along "Duck Soup" and "The Big Store" hanging up (with Scotch tape!!!) above the shelves of other returned materials.

At the time I was allowed to select things for the television network I worked for, but I personally wanted to collect any Elvis Presley posters for myself. I didn't think about the goldmine I was standing in the middle of. Now I kick myself!!!!!! Those Marx Bros posters are worth THOUSANDS today.

I wonder what ever happened to all that material... someone smarter than me must have wound up with a fortune!!! (But I still have "Girl Happy" and "Jailhouse Rock")!

In the British military, a batman is an enlisted man who is a personal servant to an officer. Private Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Forth, is a batman. Which means there could have been a batman from Gotham in WWI.

I give all the credit to my old friend vodka

Oh, vodka! Don't ever change.

I can relate to the movie as the setting(year and such) are about the same as my own childhood in Syracuse NY in the late 1940's. Actually lived on Cleveland Ave., but went to Garfield School. No BB gun.

I've found that any beer with a picture of a monk on the bottle and which has been imported from Europe is usually pretty good.

The man's a musical genius.

And McCartney's not bad, either...

Hmm, I had no idea I could like articles. Thanks for inadvertently letting me know!

Eleven Likes? This has to be a record since the site redesign.

At least "forever"

Wait... Paul McCartney is really alive?

I remember the rumor of Paul's death was taken very seriously at the time. It had obsessed Beatles fans in hysterics... dazed and bewildered. If anything, it brought another ray of publicity to the group. Now to guess who started the rumor... was it the record company? Was it Mick Jagger? Was it Forrest Lawn? We will never know.

As Eddie mentioned, the "I buried Paul" line is perhaps the most popular "clue" to Paul being dead.

The following is from Beatles long time recording engineer Geoff Emerick's book "Here, There and Everywhere" which I highly recommend.

"I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who ever bought into this rubbish, but Paul was, in fact, very much alive and well, and there was never any kind of plan to fool the public by scattering clues about his supposed demise. John was actually saying “cranberry sauce,” not “I buried Paul,” for the simple reason that we were recording around the time of the Thanksgiving holiday, and just before the take, we had all been chatting about turkey and all the trimmings, and how Americans traditionally ate such a meal at that time of year."

I am of the mind that this new trilogy won't really be Star Wars if at least two limbs aren't lost by the end of it.

The last thing I want is to be trapped in a train car with Ross Geller.