Re: Roger Ebert at the height of his form

> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101208/REVIEWS/101209973>

> Well, there was really only one cliche left, and I was grateful when it 
> arrived. You know how a man in a high place will look down and see a 
> canvas awning that might break his fall, and he jumps into it? Yep. And 
> it’s shielding a fruit cart at the open-air market and he lands on the 
> oranges and runs off, leaving the cart owner shaking his fist. This is a 
> rare example of the Vertical Fruit Cart Scene, in which the cart is 
> struck not from the side but from the top.

Heh.  I remember Siskel & Ebert devoting an episode to movie cliches once, 
and they had a segment on Fruit Cart Scenes, with clips and everything.  I 
think they gave extra points to a certain Chuck Norris '80s film because 
the fruit cart in question had really *huge* melons or something.

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