Here's a tale I heard this morning about the wedding industry.

My assistant is getting married in the fall. He called the hotel where they're having the reception saying that he was inquiring about planning a large business dinner rather than wedding (which he does do for the firm, but not in this case.) Price they quoted him - something like 30% less than what they're paying for the wedding. Nice. His rather aggressive future father-in-law has already called the hotel and shouted them into a rebate of about 8k.

a kid in the hall just referenced The Karate Kid. How is that still a quotable movie to kids?

But Kids In The Hall are so 90s.

The Karate Kid

Maybe it has passed into overall pop culture awareness? I know a lot of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, despite my being seven years old when it was in theatres.

Cable: where mediocre movies go to become part of the collective unconscious.

Aha.

The tattoo on her “lower back” — as her spokeswoman places it — doesn’t say “La Bella Vista,” it says, “La Bella Vita” (The Good Life). Flacks for both Lohan, 18, and Willis, 49, insist the two kept their hands to themselves Tuesday night when they met for the first time after the screening of his new actioner, “Hostage.” Lohan’s rep said: “She is not interested in Bruce Willis in any way but as the producer of her next film.” Willis is producing “Just My Luck.” His rep said the two talked about the movie and that their relationship is purely professional.

don't be a smartass, ita.

a kid in the hall just referenced The Karate Kid. How is that still a quotable movie to kids?

I'm guessing that the kid's parents bought the recently-released boxed set for their children (they are good family films).

don't be a smartass, ita.

It's what I thought you meant!

For a few seconds, anyway.

Happy Birthday tommyrot!

“She is not interested in Bruce Willis in any way but as the producer of her next film.”

So that's why they were making out....