word, Bev.

Plus Rory Cochrane in his only other decent non Dazed and Confused role.

Incidentally, I have the MP3 for "Sugarhigh" if anybody needs it.

I liked him as Speed, from before CSI: Miami went totally belly-up.

I really can't think of anything I've liked Renee Zellweiger in.

The Whole Wide World. Before Jerry Maguire, I think. The movie's about the pulp writer Robert Howard played by uber-charismatic, pre-bloat Vincent D'Onofrio, and Zellweger plays his sweetheart, Novalyne Price. It's a small movie, but lovely and bittersweet and just about perfect, and Zellweger is terrific in it. It also has one of the best screen kisses I've ever seen (swooooooon).

I never thought she was hot enough for that part

I thought she was unattractive in entirely the wrong way - Roxie is a character who might have been pretty once but has been drinking herself into oblivion for at least a decade. Not someone who could pass for a hottie right now if only she'd stand up straight and unsquinch her face.

I suppose that's what I meant, Jessica. "Marilyn Monroe Hits The Skids" Bridget Jones was really cute...she was great in that.

Here's a big second for Vonnie's recco for The Whole Wide World which is early work for both Zellweger and D'Onofrio, and shows them at their best.

I know we've talked about it before, but The Great Race is on TCM again.

I wonder if there's Professor Fate fic.

It's such a weirdly long movie. There's all the early stuff where Fate is trying to beat or blow up Leslie before the race even starts. That's more than half an hour.

Then the suffragette satire. Then the long Western sequence.

The arctic sequence is like a whole separate movie (probably my favorite part). And then the whole Prisoner of Zenda bit at the end could've been another entire movie on its own.

Alan Arkin and Peter Falk had curiously parallel careers. They both had successful supporting roles through much of the sixties and then continued on to do amazing work for decades without a lot of acclaim until people ran down their filmographies and realized the quality of their body of work.

With Arkin you've got The Russians Are Coming, Wait Until Dark, Freebie and the Bean, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine. Falk you've got The Great Race, all the Cassavetes movies in the early seventies, Columbo, Wings of Desire.

Push the button, Max!

I've already gone on record here on professing my Great Race love. More than once, I think. I know I definitely mentioned it when Tony Curtis passed away.

It's such a weirdly long movie.

I don't know if it got sucked into "bigger, more Spectacular, BIGGER" trend of it's day, or if it was meant to be a parody of that. It certainly works as one if you look at it that way.