Yes, we are of the same mind about the mediocrity. It's rather sad, but when big business runs on the fickle massess of squirmy, too-young-too-dress-that-old teens, tweens and really immature 20 year olds, I guess we get Arm-ediocrity. (Is that a cool word, or just trying to hard??) Maybe Medi-megedon... :)

I love those old classics too. Frank Capra films too. Arsenic and Old Lace... so unsual in its tone, but crazy fun. Grant was genius. It really is hard to pinpoint a single film that totatlly says "Yep (sound of spitting into a spitoon), that's my psyche!" I guess it's not a fair question. Well, nice chatting with you. Sorry for the annonymous tag. Call me D. Just read that essay you did on Bob and Ray, who I never heard of until your essay. Nice work, btw. Very heady stuff. I definetly get the reverberations of Newhart and Letterman, et al from the few samples I heard. Take care.