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A local TV station began showing episodes of 'Bosum Buddies' and all I tell you is that unless you were old enough to remember watching this show back in the eighties, don't bother looking for it. I was a big fan of 'Bosum Buddies' back in grade school but after twenty-five years it has dated badly. While I admit it's interesting to see Tom Hanks back when he was young and unknown, the jokes are of the early PC variety and the plot lines revolve around Tom Hanks' and Peter Scolari's attempt to hide their cross-dressing secret from the women at the hotel. Watching this show in 2005, it's incredible how preachy everybody was back then.

"A Stir of Echoes" may not have the buzz that "The Sixth Sense" has, but don't let that keep you from seeing this film. I've watched this film at least a dozen times and I never get bored with it. That's because I always find something new to grab my attention. The photography in this film is unbelievable, specifically the shot of Kevin Bacon high on a telephone pole with downtown Chicago and the three El trains in the background. Thank god the director chose to film this movie on location in Chicago and not a back lot in Hollywood. By filming "A Stir of Echoes" on location, the city becomes as much a part of the movie as the characters in it. What I liked most are the great performances by Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe and Kevin Dunn, who play their parts so beautifully that you never ask yourself why their characters' acted the way they did. I would recommend this film to anyone who likes an intelligent horror film.

I saw 'Cold Turkey' on TV back in 1978 or 1979 when I was eleven. Twenty-five years later I can still remember Bob Newhart's portrayal of the evil, wily tobacco executive and his motto "I believe in Wren." Even better was the little old lady in the pro-tobacco group who compared the organizers of the tobacco boycott to the troops who invaded Czechoslovskis in 1968. Dick Van Dyke was brilliant as the befuddled minister who had to put up with the everyone from larger-than-life TV anchormen and pot smoking hippies to evil tobacco executives. Norman Lear was way ahead of his time by using Randy Newman to write the soundtrack and I hope there are still copies of the movie on VHS or DVD.