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Film critic Gene Shalit turned 98 yesterday. Let's relive the greatest sentence ever written in a movie review:

I just got my front row seats and I’m so hyped.

The real key is to lightly saute your pineapple and some jalapenos together before you put them on the pizza. Then go with ham and a honey drizzle and a hot sauce base.

I am sorry, my dear friend, but that's a federal holiday here in the states so I'm gonna say HELL YES to that! ...but otherwise agreed 1000%.

From your front porch to my front seat The Forbidden Door's open but the ride ain't free..

Ospreay vs Shibata and Swerve vs Takeshita on the same show, I fucking love pro wrestling.

My favorite pizza for years now has been pineapple, mushroom, and jalapeno, but I never thought of sauteeing the pineapple and jalapenos together. That sounds really good.

My one wish is that we could get RIOT from the original WOW there...

Ben Gazzara doesn't get enough credit for the gleeful chewing of scenery he does playing what's essentially an R-rated A-Team villain...

The shift in public perception of celebs doing commercials is like this, too. Back in the day, celebs would sneak off to Japan to make that sweet, secret advertising money. Today we have Oscar winners shilling everything in broad daylight.

I really wish they'd stop putting Takeshita in positions where he has to lose.

Got tickets for the May 15th Dynamite. They are gonna be just north of Seattle in Everett, hope Swerve is champ by then.

Note to self: at the DVDVR pizza party, don't offer to share pizza.

Yep, that's probably the most famous example of that happening. It's funny we went from that to popular artists flying overseas to perform at birthdays for the kids of Saudi royalty and not a hint of controversy.

Love Proops. We went to see him in DC years ago and made his day by giving him an old set of Negro League postcards I had. but my personal number one is Tony Slattery.

Was a near thing at times in the last two months, but ultimately made the call not to head up. We had some family stuff in February that I didn't know how it'd fall and it fell just bad enough that we made the decision to treat the kids on Spring Break with a trip. Just got back from that (and they had a blast) but the time off work and expense and some lingering stuff pushed the needle far enough that it doesn't make sense for me to take off two more days from work and miss a couple of extra days with the kids and burden the wife. I hope everyone has a great time though and I'll catch the show on IWTV and hopefully write it up on SC as Phil and Eric will be busy creating history as the modern day Toots Mondt and Jack Pfefer.

Greg Proops. Man, his whimsical satire...

Pineapple on pizza. That's my line. What argument are we having, again?

I forgot to mention that in my post last night. That long camera shot was so beautiful. Just followed the action and let it speak for it self. Under Kevin Dunn there would have been probably 50 cuts back and forth in 45 seconds. It's nice not to have motion sickness while watching the WWE.

If you want a copy of the show you have to do it the way god intended: send a money order for $27 to the sketchiest person you've ever met on the internet then wait 6-8 weeks for the VHS tape that also contains the last half of Desperado taped off of Showtime.

So we're into another week and we're a few weeks from Dynasty. Here's what's on tap from Quebec! TABERNACK!

Kingdom match was good shit so I'd say that too.

It's Swerve's time. Really, it was Swerve's time 3 months ago. It's a new AEW and your top babyface is Will Ospreay and your top heel is Kazuchika Okada, so if they don't pull the trigger on Swerve now it'll be too late real quick.

The other territories would use Kung Fu Fighting, Memphis would actually give him two videos and break out Dance the Kung Fu as well.

The Dragon Lives Again is on one of the discs. https://severinfilms.com/collections/pre-order/products/the-game-of-clones-bruceploitation-collection-vol-1-exclusive-8-disc-blu-ray-box-set-book

Pineapple on pizza is awesome, especially with pickled jalapeños. I draw my line at corn.

I think Aminata v Billie could go either way. Let's all band together to WILL Beer City Bruiser into the fold.

Listen I am not a violent man, but...

He'd rebound like common people do.

Man now I want some pineapple on my pizza

Colin is the glue guy keeping everything together.

Must have been watching too many Britpop videos recently because I'm watching Robbie Avila and thinking "What if Jarvis Cocker of Pulp was a center?"

They need to have a duck character who Rubble gives an envelope full of cash to every week, you know so everything on the job site works smoothly.

Tony announced the rankings! return again after Dynamite and Swerve/Takeshita will be for the #1 spot. Other matches added are Skye vs Statlander vs Anna Jay vs Willow for a TBS title shot at Dynasty, with Mercedes Mone on commentary and Trent/Orange vs Undisputed Kingdom in the tag tournament.

No, I don't. Somehow, I just skimmed past it.

I missed the first 9-10 minutes of the Brutus episode. I might not have entirely paid attention to the detail about his face being crushed. You gotta admit, they did one hell of a job on his face. To the point that his face is holding up better than his current wife's face.

Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane, Tom Prichard, Bobby Eaton) vs Stud Stable (Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden, Dutch Mantell) vs Rock 'N' Roll Express & Arn Anderson (SMW 4/2/1993) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=924163718056812

New York is a Union Town, so all I know is Rubble better have all his permits in order and make sure the site is safe and secure before building because otherwise... Oh, and he'd better be ready for the code enforcement inspection of his little 7 year old life, because I'm sure code is different when a fucking stadium is built by a dog.

I've been following this Cody / Rock stuff on youtube. Most interested I've been in a WWE storyline in years

Uncensored version The Rock crushing Cody at the end of the show:

Speaking of speaking of the AEW Championship, Samoa Joe is our champion.

So is the GI Jane gimmick an indirect reference to Jada Pinkett Smith (and why Chris Rock got slapped) or has she had that gimmick for awhile? Her look is sort of a Grace Jones look which would be a little too out of the wheelhouse of a WOW.

I like Melville. I saw almost of his available in 1994 films when I was in grad school since I wrote a paper on him (due to his influence on QT). I think he’s also an interesting historical figure vis a vis the French New Wave / Cahiers.

I’d say middle period Pacino starts with Sea of Love and ends with Insomnia. His next picture after that is Simone, and that’s about a wrap on Al. I wonder what kind of relationship he had with Nolan because they never worked together again.

Forgot to mention the BC powders They're powdered aspirin. It's a good-old-boy cure-all; a couple Virginia guys introduced me to em when I was a kid at Classic Metal Fest 3 to help with hangovers. You just swallow 'em and they're absolutely disgusting, but work fast. Brutus probably had cocaine.

I think there was probably a collective feeling among a lot of those foreigners in Japan that now that the American scene was back up and running, it would be time to return and secure spots back home. I mean the days of guys like Vader and Steiners being able to routinely work in Japan all the time and then do some shots stateside between tours was largely over. Unless you were a Foley type guy where you never really left, there really wasn't a place for you. I mean Wilkes didn't do bad for the 3-4 months he was in before the injuries and substance issues got ahold of him, but he probably would have been a hotter commodity when they first wanted to bring him in several years earlier. I think Doc being used a certain level with top guys was only best case scenario and wishful thinking. With both the Vinces and how WWF TV was being structured, it's hard to see Doc being anything other than a decent midcard guy. That's what Vader was pretty much the last several months of his WWF run.

"Rocky, I've... seen... things... you people wouldn't believe. Explosions botching in the heart of Jacksonville..."

the good news is that Ippei bet on being fired for massive theft