Bill (Bronson Dudley) and Tommy (Steve Buscemi) talking Korea and careers. You’d have to see it. And you should. An excellent entry in the Barfly genre – along with the genre’s namesake, Barfly. Buscemi writes and directs Trees Lounge, from 1996, a true-to-life depiction of day-in/day-out existence for many of us.

So says Jessie Royce Landis, as Jessie Stevens, straight-shooting mother of the goddess-esque Grace Kelly, as recent finishing school grad Francie Stevens, who suspects Grant is after her mother’s jewels in Hitchcock’s ultra-stylish caper flick To Catch a Thief. In Europe to find Francie a husband they find themselves at a French Riviera casino with Grant and John Williams (who you may remember from those old Longines Symphonette TV commercials.) Ultimate message of this subtle Hitchcock outing? You can’t shake your nature. Francie might be putting on airs but her mother sets her straight, her father, who died before they were filthy rich, was a hustler with a heart of gold. Thus, what attracts Francie on her European husband hunt? Grant’s John Robie, retired cat burglar/dreamboat.

Jessie: “You can take all that champagne and dump it in the English channel.”

Later on she bellies up to the bar American-style and puts in an order: “Avez vous bourbon?”

The site will take a new tack. Inspired by the passing of Bill Buckley and a couple fingers of Basil Hayden’s.  The net IQ of the planet has taken a notable tick downward. We’ll be dropping all pretense and going back to our roots.