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Scent of a Woman No doubt. I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

The premiere is this Friday on USA. Personally I don't get it. Why remake Kojak with a black actor no matter how good he might be? It's been a long time but part of what made Kojak different was that he was supposed to be Greek. If USA wants to put on a detective show with Ving Rhames that's great, but why try to make him Kojak? It makes no sense.

My parents were raised in Iowa, and I was born there, and they always called soft drinks "pop." When I came to the south and mentioned "pop" nobody knew what I was talking about. Everybody here called it "coke" no matter what it really was. I never heard anybody call it "soda" until I went to New York for the World's Fair. I thought a soda was something with ice cream in it. I never heard of the night before Halloween having any kind of name either.

A Knight's Tale?

"Amos & Andy" wasn't taken out of syndication until the mid-60s in the civil rights era. I can remember watching it in the afternoons after school and thought it was hilarious. It's been a long time since I've seen it and maybe I'm naive, but it seems like the only objectionable character might have been the Kingfish, who was basically a small-time con artist. Everybody else was just normal people with jobs and families. There were no pimps or drug dealers or numbers runners or any of that stuff. I guess the black "dialect" was objectionable, I don't know. I grew up as a white middle class North Carolina kid, I know, but I never thought the Kingfish represented all black people any more than Jethro Bodine or Gomer Pyle represented all southerners.

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Charlie Sheen The Three Musketeers Tim Curry

No clue on that one.

Check this out: Flintstones Ah, the good old days.

You won't be seeing any reruns of that show on TV Land.

Three teams from North Carolina in the Sweet Sixteen. Could have been four if Wake Forest had played any defense at all against West Virginia. Tar Heels looked awesome blowing out Oakland and Iowa State. With Kansas, Syracuse and Connecticut all gone it looks like an easy road to St. Louis.

The best episode that I remember from that show was the one where Rob was convinced that they had brought the wrong baby home from the hospital. He was sure that their baby was switched with another couple so he contacts them and invites them to his house to figure it out. Then they show up and Rob answers the door and the other couple is black. I remember seeing that like it was yesterday, one of the funniest moments ever on tv. It wouldn't be nearly as funny on a show today, but in the early 60s it was groundbreaking.

The only time I remember seeing Buddy's wife Pickles was when Buddy was going to leave her because he found out she had been married to someone else before him. She was talked about a lot but rarely seen. Anybody see the reunion show that was on a few months ago? It was bizarre. The old clips were fuuny, but the supposedly present day stuff was really lame. Rose Marie looked like she had been embalmed.

Yeah, it wasn't the pants themselves that were risque, but how well they fit. Did you know that the leading character's role almost went to Johnny Carson? Wouldn't that have changed a lot of things over the past 40-plus years.

Christina Ricci The Addams Family Raul Julia

Omigod!! Say it ain't so, George!! The only way I'd like this to be similar to "Titanic" is if I get to see Natalie Portman nekkid.

Who knew James Bond could sing? I guess that really is him and he's pretty good. What I remember about this movie is Janet Munro, who was one of Walt's teen sweeties from the 50s and 60s, along with Hayley Mills and Annette. She was in this and "Swiss Family Robinson" and a few others before she aged out of the Disney stuff. She didn't do much after that and died fairly young. She was a babe. Nice picture of Robert Blake. Maybe he and OJ can get together to help each other look for the "real killers." Yeah, right.

Chevy Chase National Lampoon's Vacation Anthony Michael Hall

Woody Harrelson Kingpin Randy Quaid

The 2005 edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary is scheduled to hit bookstores sometime in May. This new edition contains 58 new entries for words that have entered mainstream usage since the last edition was printed. One of the new additions is defined as follows: That's good to know.

Reporter: How did you find America? John Lennon: Turned left at Greenland. A Hard Day's Night Another great line from that movie: Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing? George Harrison: Arthur. Next: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy

Ditto. Like molasses in January today.

Kate Beckinsale The Aviator Jude Law

Nope

This one should be easy: I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.