Re: Roger Ebert at the height of his form

Is that like the *huge* knockers gag from Young Frankenstein?

Johne Cook
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> 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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