Casablanca, “We’ll always have Paris”
Where she “thinks” her husband may be dead, but has an affair just because it’s a crazy mixed up world. Gee, I guess that says it all. Add 90 minutes of dreamy scenery and cruises down the Seine, plus 15 minutes of him buying Rick’s Cafe from the Fat Man.
The explanation I came up with was that the studio chief got a list of all the films in development and wasn’t too pleased with the prospect of The W-Men, seeing as the first two failed. He wanted the project canned, and pointed this out by writing a big “X” over the movie’s title. However, the “X” only went through the letter “W,” and the producers thought he was only asking for the title to be changed.
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This is Then, Now is Later
The Sweet Here and Now
While it’s Still Light, My Sweet
Preschool Cop
The Night the Lights Flickered Alarmingly but Stayed On In Georgia
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This week on TBS: James Bond Prequel Week!
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Teaching Assistant No
I’ll Drop You a Line When I get to Russia
Who’s Buying up all the Gold?
You Only Live Once, I Think
Live and Let Live
Septopussy
Learner’s Permit to Kill
Platinumeye
The Spy I Just Met
Today Dies
For Now, I’ll Take the World
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Looks like James Lileks is playing this game, too. Today on his site, he joked that the film noir The Dark Corner was the sequel to “the rollickin’ fun-loving musical, The Brightly Lit Middle of the Room.”