One thing that I noticed about both Moulin Rouge and A Knights Tale was that the big song, the one that truly sealed the love deal, was a Bowie song. IJS.

PSA: Tivo tells me that Harold and Maude is on Bravo tonight at 4 AM. It's well worth capturing to view later/keep, even.

P-C, I so totally need to make out with you when I come visit. Moulin Rouge is among the bestest movie musicals ever (even if I'm not totally there with you on Nicole Kidman.).

I have a dream, though, of one day a woman at the turn of the century dying of something other than consumption.

Come now, DebetEsse, there were no disesases in the early 20th except TB. You should know THAT.

That's because TB always hit the pretty prostitutes. As far as I can tell. God was punishing them, you see. Now, God has given up on prostitutes, and only punishes gay people. Thus, AIDS is the disease of the day.

It's so simple if you look at it from the right perspective.

Plus, the Holiday Special had the spectacularly out-of-context Dan Ackroyd's Julia Child bit. Who couldn't love that?

I haven't seen the Holiday Special since it aired on tv, but I effen loved it then. (Hey, I was eight!) I was tempted to see it again, but I wanted to keep its memory pure.

P-C, I so totally need to make out with you when I come visit.

'kay!

I have a dream, though, of one day a woman at the turn of the century dying of something other than consumption.

Being run over by a horseful carriage.

Plus, the Holiday Special had the spectacularly out-of-context Dan Ackroyd's Julia Child bit. Who couldn't love that?

And Bea Arthur. Because nothing says "Star Wars" like Maude.

Even when I saw the SW Holiday Special on TV at age 10, even being a HUGE Star Wars fan, I was confused and disappointed and unhappy. But I still remember a lot of it, and I agree with Matt that it's more watchable than the prequels.

Lucas is a loon, however - wanting it banned. He really doesn't get that he can't take it back, does he?

The Incredibles is opening soon here...in Greek, the name is closer to "The Implausibles" or even "The Fantastics" so the homage is clearer I guess. But what's the bad guy's name in the States? Here it's "Syndrome."

And (from way back) Troy was pretty popular here, but really for the same reasons it did well in the States - the pretty. Alexander might do as well, even with the bisexuality, as the bad hair won't bother people as much here, and the Greeks kind of dig on Oliver Stone.

The thing is, the current Greeks are Slavs, not Hellenes. They aren't actually descended from the Classical Greeks. So they shouldn't relate personally to the classics' sexual practices.

But what's the bad guy's name in the States? Here it's "Syndrome."

It's "Syndrome" here as well.