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I Never Mix My Pies

“Brandy! Throw more brandy!”
The Great Race simply has the best pie fight on film EVAR. It starts with Professor Fate (played by Jack Lemmon) falling into a hugemongous cake. He then chucks a cake at his co-conspirator (I won’t go into plot detail here), who then fires back. It slowly escalates until pies are a-flyin’ [...]

Hey world, you stink!

A long time ago, I watched the great Mel Brooks movie “The Producers“. I recall my favorite character being Lorenzo St. DuBois as portrayed by the late, great Dick Shawn. I recently ran across a video clip of Lorenzo’s audition for Springtime for Hitler. This scene always makes me laugh. Shawn’s rendition of the [...]