Benjamin Grimm

When he makes the big leagues, I hope his fan club wears these wigs to games:

I'm not sure that's it. It's not trying to be a list of "best movies" but a list of "movies you should see." I think Titanic was included because of its place in movie history as a mega-blockbuster.

I've seen 61 of them. If my math is correct, that's 61 per cent. 12 Angry Men (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The 400 Blows (1959) 8 � (1963) The African Queen (1952) Alien (1979) All About Eve (1950) Annie Hall (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Battle of Algiers (1967) The Bicycle Thief (1948) Blade Runner (1982) Blazing Saddles (1974) Blow Up (1966) Blue Velvet (1986) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Breathless (1960) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Casablanca (1942) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Die Hard (1988) Do the Right Thing (1989) Double Indemnity (1944) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Duck Soup (1933) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Enter the Dragon (1973) The Exorcist (1973) Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) The French Connection (1971) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) Goldfinger (1964) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968) Goodfellas (1990) The Graduate (1967) Grand Illusion (1938) Groundhog Day (1993) A Hard Day's Night (1964) In the Mood For Love (2001) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) King Kong (1933) The Lady Eve (1941) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003) M (1931) M*A*S*H (1970) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Matrix (1999) Modern Times (1936) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Network (1976) Nosferatu (1922) On the Waterfront (1954) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Paths of Glory (1958) Princess Mononoke (1999) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raise the Red Lantern (1992) Rashomon (1951) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Rocky (1976) Roman Holiday (1953) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Schindler's List (1993) The Searchers (1956) Seven Samurai (1954) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Sound of Music (1965) Star Wars (1977) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Third Man (1949) This is Spinal Tap (1984) Titanic (1997) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Toy Story (1995) The Usual Suspects (1995) Vertigo (1958) When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Wild Strawberries (1957) Wings of Desire (1988) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) The World of Apu (1959)

Willets Point wrote: I'm thinking this may be a good first movie theater experience for our little one. Like metirish, I'll wait a few weeks and look for a matinee. SPOILER ALERT I have to say, there is a very harrowing scene, where (spoiler alert) the toys are about to be incinerated and they resign themselves to their impending deaths. You'll have to judge (as best you can) how much your child might be upset by something like that.

That's good news! Having him fade away wouldn't have been a good thing. Hopefully he'll keep it up and play himself into the conversation for 2011.

I might be able to do that, but not right now. Maybe I'll take a look tomorrow.

Fman99 wrote: Wow, tough room. No. Bad comedian.

Jokes about babies abandoned in dumpsters? What's the opposite of bullet of cool?

Yeah, Spidey 3 is a prime example of that.

I gave it 3�. Lots of fun, not as cool as the first one, though. Some key scenes took place on the site of the old Fairgrounds in Flushing. But not the derelict ruins that actually exist. The Marvel Movie Universe version of the fairgrounds is a lively, neon-splashed place. I was looking for a glimpse of Citi Field, but no luck. It was obviously a CGI landscape, so there would be no chance of Citi "accidentally" getting on camera. The battle with Whiplash in Monaco was probably the coolest scene. And Scarlet Johansen, not surprisingly, made for a sexy Black Widow.

Watched it yesterday and liked it a lot. (I gave it three stars.) I agree that it started stronger than it finished, and that the flashbacks were the most compelling parts. Part of me, though, wishes it had been set in the U.S., so that we'd be able to see Regis Philbin in the back room torturing the contestants. You just know it happens that way!

If he thinks Tejada will win more games for him than Cora will. I know there's no avoiding it, but I hate that everything has to be viewed through the prism of what Jerry will do to keep his job.

My hunch is that the longer term plan for Tejada is to have him replace Castillo, either after 2011 when Luis' contract expires, or sooner if the Mets decide to ditch or bench Castillo. But he may very well get a month or so of big league action during the time that Reyes is out.

We may be getting a much closer look at Ruben very soon. The buzz is that he has a good shot at being the Mets Opening Day shortstop this season.

Has anyone run a similarity score on Jerry Manuel and Joe Biden?

Article in the Daily News today advancing the Mariano Rivera comparisons. This time it's from Darryl Strawberry, who says he's pushing Omar to have Jenrry make the team this year, and sees him as a closer. (It's not clear whether Darryl is saying he should be a closer this year, bumping Frankie Rodriguez.) And maybe that is the best future for him, but if so I'll be a bit disappointed. If he's as good as they say he is (and the jury is still out on that, of course) I want him to be a starter. I'd rather have a Dwight Gooden (or even a Ron Darling) than a Mariano Rivera.

I just realized that I don't know what the guy looks like, so I went looking for an image. For anyone else similarly curious, here he is. Are we sure he's Ron Davis' kid and not Steve Garvey's?

Up gets a best picture nomination! Is it the first animated feature to get that nomination? (I'm thinking it's not. I seem to think that The Lion King was nominated. Or maybe Beauty and the Beast.) I'm pretty sure that it would be the first to win, if that were to happen.

Ah! Thanks.

Who is "Captain Kirk"?

Omar on Hot Stove the other night: "We love Ike Davis."

Mostly HBO and Turner Classic Movies. Sometimes American Movie Classics or Fox Movie Channel. I think it's been at least ten years since I've rented a movie. (We rented Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Indian and the Cupboard when my son was a toddler.)

Well, Dessens and Takahashi each pitched in 28 games, which isn't a lot but is more than a little, and did pretty well. (Dessens had a 3.31 ERA and Takahashi's was 2.96) It was hard to balance guys like that (Nieve also fits that category) with others with pitched more but less well. (Like Redding and Pelfrey and Parnell.) I think in most cases I went with the quality over the quantity.

Chad Ochoseis wrote: I get huge spaces any time I attempt to submit a table. Any of you guys who know something about tables have any hints? Yes. Get rid of the linefeeds within your "html". Your table should look like one big fat paragraph. If you do that, the blank space will disappear from your post.