May 14, 2004

THE LAST OF THE REALLY GREAT WHANGDOODLES: I think this will be my last post on titling–thanks very much to all who wrote in!

Sean Collins adds a large list, with which I often though not always agree, here (and notes that I am super lazy and have bad blog etiquette! How’s this, SC–previous title posts can be found here here here here here).

Joshua Elder says something with which I thoroughly agree: [T]here remains a glaring omission I simply must address: “Airplane!” The Zucker Bros. masterpiece boasts one of the most sublimely descriptive titles in all of cinema history. It tells you that it’s a parody of overblown airborne disaster movies and it accomplishes all this with the addition of a single innocuous mark of punctuation. Brilliant.

David Fried writes: [T]wo very different favorites of mine, both from Larry Woiwode: “What I’m Going

to Do, I Think” (catch the ambiguity!) and “Beyond the Bedroom Wall” (a great multi-generational family saga.)

And …the Delmore Schwartz short story ‘”In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”[.]


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