It seems that most of them are available for purchase on DVD at Amazon.com RIGHT NOW. This is just the NYPost being dumb.

* "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1938" is $20
* "The Glass Menagerie" WAS available last year, but now out-of-stock.
* Little Darlings (1980) is $28.
* ‘Fedora’ (1978) is $14.
* Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1978) is a rarity and going for $200
* ‘Movie Movie’ (1978) is $27

And that's good enough for me to dismiss the article as complete nonsense. Besides, they even mention several are available on Blu-ray or Amazon instant video download, which is just as good if not better than DVD, making this list pretty well completely pointless.

I guess people just prefer to say champagne, just as they prefer to say Kleenex, Aspirin, and others. Still not sure you can genericize an actual location, like Champagné, France, just because "sparkling wine" doesn't roll off the tongue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks

Buffy didn't "bomb" at all, it turned a very tidy profit from the get-go. If it had "bombed", Fox wouldn't have "wanted to capitalize on its success". Article can't even agree with itself from one paragraph to the next...

Pretty sure Austin Powers, whose release pre-dates his first appearance on Buffy (TV), is what made Seth Green famous.

What? I neither love it nor hate it. It was a mediocre movie that failed to have redeeming qualities. Much like the list of 5 obvious and mundane factoids linked to.

I don't buy it. I know a couple people who still just use dirt in their litter boxes, with cats that never go outside. And for the record, their homes don't stink at all.

I imagine the effects tenuously attributed to clay litter were instead caused by increasing urbanization, disposable income, leisure time, etc.

The surprise-ending of Star Trek: Bread and Circuses is quite jarring to a modern audience... Everyone's face lights-up when they realize the sun worshipers they were helping were actually worshiping "not the sun up in the sky [but] the Son of God". Rather heavy-handed pro-Christian theme, which, while innocuous, is quite shocking with today's pervasive political correctness.

That's NOTHING compared to what beach-front property owners do. The beaches may be public property, but private developers are allowed to buy up miles and miles of land, and refuse to allow anyone to park nearby, or even walk through to the beach. It's not strictly illegal, and it's a clear-cut case of public lands being stolen and locked-up for private use by the wealthy.

Best small-dog/cat bed I've found so far is a simple $4 pillow. Works far better all-around than all the $30+ purpose built devices I've tried:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Microfiber-2-Pk-Pillow-White-Standard/14123148

"A Boring Day At Work For The Predator"

I remember the absolutely worthless commercials for Fight Club on TV... It was basically the line "How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" followed by a super close-up of a pink bar of soap with "Fight Club" engraved into it... It was utterly worthless except to put the name out there with no context. I had no interest in seeing the film after seeing the commercial repeated hundreds of times, which is regrettable, because I consider it a great film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6mw0FVjrI

I expect lousy advertising is the #1 problem across the board... Studio execs don't WANT to make a commercial that will tell you whether you want to see a film... They arrogantly take the target audience for granted, and meanwhile focus advertising on attracting those who will NOT like the movie, to get them to buy a ticket regardless. It makes a certain type of cynical sense, but over the longer term has made people skeptical of movie advertisements, and the feedback loop has driven us to the proliferation of formulaic and awful films we have today.

I've noticed that many actors on the show did double-duty.

John Hoyt was Ross (the Martian) in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and also the father who built himself a robot daughter in "The Lateness of the Hour".

Barney Phillips was the diner's cook in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" as well as Capt. Gunther in "The Purple Testament", the TV Repairman (one of just 3 people) in "A Thing about Machines", and Diemel in "Miniature" opposite Robert Duvall.

Burgess Meredith (ie. Rocky's coach), Jack Klugman, John Anderson and Cyril Delevanti tied with him for 4 episodes.

Vaughn Taylor (Psycho) just beats everyone else out, though, having significant roles in 5 different episodes.

Seems to be a rip-off of last year's Business Insider article, which they link to:

http://www.businessinsider.com/foreigners-share-what-they-cant-believe-about-america-2013-11

* 6. The Non-Metric System

This gets exaggerated far too much. Most important measurements (speedometers, foods, etc.) are dual-labeled. And the US isn't alone... The British remain dedicated to imperial measures, but somehow it's not as trendy to mock the UK.

* 8. Return Policy

All of Europe has far better return policies than the US... A product can be returned years later, if it was poorly designed and unsuitable for the purpose.

* "It is easy to find obese people in USA"

Mexico is worse than the US, and the UK is only just barely any better the US in the obesity epidemic. Most 1st world countries have the problem to varying degrees. That said, the US is a big place, and I can see how a foreigner that gets off the plane and walks into a Walmart in Paducah, Kentucky would think the entire US consists of a herd of thundering man-blubber propelled onward by rascal scooters...

With all these, I keep waiting for Psy to pop-in from off-screen...

Eh, sexy lady!
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