“I was in the Air Force, stationed in Drambuie, off the Barbary Coast. I used to hang out at the Magumba bar.”
Sorry; I hadn’t read all the posts yet.
I’ve also liked the scene (which also dates it somewhat) where a group of reporters rush into a row of payphones, and the whole wall tips over.
“Joey, do you ever hang around the gymnasium? When the men have been working out, and they’re all hot and sweaty?”
“What can you make of this?” (printed report)
“I can make a hat, or I can make a brooch, or I can…”
It was dated immediately - banks of phone booths weren’t used in that era. Multiple pay phones were mounted on walls with no partitioning.
In this scene you can see one of the photographers has an old folding press camera with a bulb flash…not used by journalists since the 1960s?
Notice one of the microphones is an ice cream cone.
Jet planes from that era sounded like jet planes.
Apparently, ZAZ wanted a prop plane but the studio insisted on a jet. So they retaliated by putting the prop sound in.
I’m pretty sure some older buildings still had private phone booths in 1980. I also doubt some older photographers wouldn’t have ditched a perfectly good camera in favor of a more modern model.
Besides, using a bellows camera is a lot more dramatic.
A pizzeria in Sayville, NY that I used to frequent still has a working phone booth that closes (well as of 2012 they did).
The magazine Modern Sperm in the airport bookstore rack marked “Whacking Material.”
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
“I’ve got it!”
Missed the edit on this one: would, not wouldn’t. 
“All right, give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.”
Could a movie even have a conversation about having an abortion these days? it seems we’ve regressed to a more puritanical past.*
-*I watch L&O reruns on WeTV. they blank out certain words - remember, L&O was originally broadcast on over the air TV! WeTV is censoring words that were good enough for NBC’s Standards and practices watchdogs!
Blazing Saddles, it has often be noted, could almost certainly not be made these days.
It’s worse than that. If you’re half deaf from a lifetime spent in factories and use closed captioning you get to see WeTV censor closed captioning using a computer. You’ll see a sound described as “gun xxxxing” . Yes, they replace the word “cocking” with “xxxxing” which seems way dirtier than the original.
Yeah, I always noticed during the multiple times the aircraft lost altitude that it was clearly a sound sample of a diving prop plane.
WOW! And yet, the plot lines they show on the promos for “Love After Lockup” should be censored! I don’t understand that channel.