ETA: Oh and I can't get "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" outta my head!

It really does stick in the head for days and days afterward, doesn't it?

I like Kalshane's dad.

I watched the making-of documentary for "Easter Parade" last night, as well as listened to the commentary (with Fred Astaire's daughter and a movie musical expert/Garland biographer--they give excellent commentary together!).

Lots of neat trivia: Ann Miller had actually dated LB Mayer (talk about May/December romances!), but even though he had asked her to marry him (she turned him down), she insists that she had to audition for the movie and got the part with no influence from the studio head. In fact, she had just been through a nasty divorce after her drunk husband tossed her down the stairs and broke her back, and she was forced to do the entire film either taped up and/or in a brace (when she was taped up, she had to spend the rest of the day in traction). Also, if you notice, whenever she's dancing with Fred, she's wearing ballet shoes.

A neat bit of extra casting--a taxi driver is played by Jimmie Dodd, better known later as Jimmie in the original Mickey Mouse Club.

So, I'm doing some research so I can write a little background thing on Willie Nelson, and I pull up the imdb entry for The Dukes of Hazzard. I was trying to see if the boards said anything about the release date so I could add it to the background info. Dude. it's just wanking off in all directions Brittany vs. Jessica, I HATE JESSICA, JESSICA IS TEH AWSOM!!!, RACIST!, The Dukes never smoked pot!, I hate BURT REYNOLDS!!, BURT IS THE GREATEST ACTOR EVAH!~

Having said that, I saw the trailer, and it looks pretty good for that kind of movie. Like step above Starsky and Hutch good.

Willie is in The Dukes of Hazzard? Is he playing a pot-smoking, whiskey-running, folksy-wise version of Uncle Jesse or something?

Heather, you should check out Scott Von Doviak's Hick Flicks, which won't help you with the release date but provides mucho context for both Willie movies and redneck movies (and has a section on the Dukes of Hazzard, too).

It really does stick in the head

Yup, it certainly does. Thankfully, I like it so it's not as bad as it could be.

after her drunk husband tossed her down the stairs and broke her back, and she was forced to do the entire film either taped up and/or in a brace

Wow, I had no idea... I think I'm going to have to pick up that DVD set...

Kalshane, you're dad's a hoot. Required reading..hahaha!!!!

I watched Dukes of Hazzard all the time as a kid. I don't know if I'll be able to watch the movie though, considering that the people playing the three younger Dukes annoy the hell out of me.

He actually got hooked by the BBC TV series, of all things. Which (combined with the Zork games) inspired him to buy the text-based video game, which inspired me to read the book, which inspired him to read the book, which was then thrust by him into the hands of my sister and brother when they were each old enough. It's all very circular.

Though how my mom managed to reach this point without ever reading it until now, I don't know.

Dawn, Easter Parade is available as a separate 2-disc set, but the five-film boxed set is very cool, and really very affordable. Band Wagon is also a 2-disc set, but the other three films are just one disc each and have comparatively few extras (but Finian's Rainbow does have commentary by Francis Ford Coppola).

Willie is in The Dukes of Hazzard? Is he playing a pot-smoking, whiskey-running, folksy-wise version of Uncle Jesse or something?

puts finger on nose and points at Mr. Industries.

I've only seen two of this guy's movies, and one of them was... okay but not exactly good (Mona Lisa Smile) and the other was eleven years ago (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and neither of them is remotely like a Harry Potter movie.

This was from a while ago, but Mike Newell also did Donnie Brasco (and Pushing Tin, which I have a bizarre fondness for).