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  1. "The Godfather" on AMC. I'm booked for the next 4 hours. "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."
  2. First thing I watched on my new (and needless) flat screen: "Snow White." Second: the World Series. I may be Grumpy, but I swing both ways.
  3. Cool detail in "The Shinng" (on TCM): Each of Jack's "All work and no play..." pages are individually typed and formatted. That took work!
  4. I loved "The Men Who Stare at Goats," the psychic-warfare comedy by my USC frat brother Grant Heslov. Clooney as usual, is outta sight.
  5. The sublime "An Education" is set in Twickenham, the London 'burb where my own education was set to happen- 'til I was beset by money woes.
  6. To housebreak our feral cat, Ringo, I play her my DVD of "Morgan," the madcap '66 Britcom about the king of the urban jungle. She submits.
  7. Staring hungrily into a box of St. Louis filmfest disks. Docs about Wavy Gravy, Pavlov's Dog, web surveillance, film critics and (!) Branson
  8. Heartbreak at the pet store on Adoption Day. Nobody wants an old dog if you can't teach it new tricks. Sorry, Daisy.
  9. Think anything is sweeter than imbibing "Strange Brew," the Bob & Doug McKenzie movie with evil brewer Max Von Sydow? Take off, ya hoser.
  10. I don't follow a lot of "celebrity" tweets, but this one from Penn Jillette tied me in a knot I can't untangle.http://tinyurl.com/ylfxdg6
  11. John C. Reilly is a gem as a tap-dancing vampire in the otherwise-unpolished "Cirque du Freak."
  12. All the hype was about "Where the Wild Things Are," which aspires to art, but this Boomer preferred "Astro Boy," which delivers zippy fun.
  13. Just saw two films about pioneering women in love triangles: "Coco Before Chanel" and "Amelia." What's next, "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story"?
  14. I'll say this about "Where the Wild Things Are": If you loved the book, you'll like the movie. (FYI: I bought it from Scholastic in '64.)
  15. Finale of "The Great Escape" on Ch. 9: Steve McQueen fails to jump the border fence, then pats his downed bike like it's a valiant horse.
  16. IFC is running a marathon of "Prisoner" episodes starting at 7 pm Central. Beware the blob, number 6.
  17. I love Natalie Wood and became chummy with Elliott Gould, yet I've never seen "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" (now on TCM). Sleep? Later.
  18. Watching Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn at Cannes in jet-set comedy "There's a Girl in My Soiup" (on TCM), I smile to think I've been there.
  19. Wilco was AOK at Farm Aid today, Lithe, loose and localized ("Casino Queen," "Heavy-Metal Drummer.") Worth the $9 beers, lack of farm info?
  20. Incredible doc, "The Monks: Transatlantic Feedback," about U.S. soldiers playing anti-war noise in Germany in 1966, on Sundance. Who knew?