It's a glow-in-the-dark compass ring. So you don't get lost. -Big (1988)

1. What did Colonel Jack D. Ripper mix with his pure grain alcohol?

2. Who Oscared as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire?

3. Who won an Oscar nomination for best actress for her role as Margo Channing in All About Eve?

4. What Tracy-Hepburn film was billed as the hilarious answer to "who wears the pants"?

5. What was Woody Allen's reply in Sleeper to the question: "You mean you haven't had sex in 200 years?"?

ETA: Answers in comments.

Everybody's born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively.

They're passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called "The Fetals". -Sliding Doors (1998)

Apparently the last great frontier of digital music is The Beatles.

"The Beatles are really the holy grail for digital music, said Aram Sinnreich, a professor at New York University's department of media culture and communications and managing partner of Radar Research LLC, a media consulting firm. "They have not been available legally from any digital music service to date. Once they are, I think it confers the sense that digital music has finally arrived in the mainstream."

Sure, I'll agree with that. This pronouncement, not so much:

"There's no question that there is a massive demand for the Beatles through a digital channel," Sinnreich said, "not only from baby boomers, who would replace the CDs they used to replace their LPs, but also from today's college students, who demonstrate continued interest in the band despite the fact that it's their grandparents' music."

The first thing is how absurd it would be to replace your CDs with digital downloads: 1. It's expensive, 2. CDs are higher quality/bitrate, 3. Apple makes it insanely easy to copy the CDs you have if you only stick them in the CD drive and hit a button.

The second thing, I wonder if they'll restrict certain groupings of songs to album only purchases. Like the first two songs of Sgt. Pepper, or the last half of Abbey Road. Time will tell, but as you might guess, I won't be buying my Beatles digitally.

Paul McCartney seems resigned to the idea of digital music though. When interviewed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic:

To me, it doesn't really matter, it's however people want to take the music--to me it's the music that matters. You know, it's probably better if they listen to the vinyl, but how many people are going to do that these days? It's kind of inconvenient. It probably is the best sound, if you're going to be a hi-fi nut. That's actually probably the best way to do it. I don't care though, however people want to do it.

You can listen to the whole live show and interview here, it's well worth it.

There is no spoon. -The Matrix (1999)

1. Who portrayed The Ugly in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?

2. What was Gene Kelly's occupation in the 1951 classic An American In Paris?

3. What 1957 film had the line: "Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall"?

4. What co-star of Shane died at 30 when he slammed his van into the side of a truck in Lakewood, Colorado, in 1972?

5. What was Brian's last name in Monty Python's Life Of Brian?

ETA: answers in the comments.

Don't Panic.

#20: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

I've known that 42 is the ultimate answer since I was seven, along with the every line from Monty Python And The Holy Grail, because I lived in the same house with my middle brother. So it was about time I actually got around to reading the book--my middle childhood makes so much more sense now. The 2005 movie was pretty good, but the book is comic genius. What P.G. Wodehouse novels are to the English novel, Douglas Adams is to the science fiction novel. Science fiction is normally not a genre I gravitate to, but I would recommend this, only because if you like sci-fi then this is up your alley and if you don't you can view the whole book as a satire of the classic sci-fi novel, so you can't lose. On that note, so long and thanks for all the fish.