The director of Popeye gets an honourary Oscar Sunday.

How can you not like Joan Cusack? She's so cute! I love her in Grosse Pointe Blank, for example, especially that weird Sergeant Pepper outfit. And, yes, she's in practically all of John's movies (actually playing his sister in Say Anything), but that doesn't bother me. It actually bothers me when she's not there.

Look, taste is subjective. This is why relying solely on reviews before watching movies is not necessarily a good idea unless you know the tastes of the reviewer. For example, Huevos, I'm pretty sure we shouldn't be picking movies for one another. (I loved Brokeback far better than I liked Hellboy, and I, too, liked Baron Munchausen.) I like Joan Cusack almost as much as I like John. I loathe Chevy Chase and almost all the works of Martin Short, which it seems you do, too, but mutually disliking bad comedians doesn't mean we'd have similar tastes anywhere else.

The fun thing is that you vote with your dislikes. I own L. A. Story, because I consider it one of the finest comedies ever made. If I didn't like it, I wouldn't have spent the money on it. I bought El Dorado, with John Wayne, today, but if you're not into the John Wayne thing, you don't have to. Such is capitalism.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"