National Film Registry 2004 Picks

Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers

The full list:

1) Ben-Hur (1959)
2) The Blue Bird (1918)
3) A Bronx Morning (1931)
4) Clash of the Wolves (1925)
5) The Court Jester (1956)
6) D.O.A. (1950)
7) Daughters of the Dust (1991)
8) Duck and Cover (1951)
9) Empire (1964)
10) Enter the Dragon (1973)
11) Eraserhead (1978)
12) Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
13) Going My Way (1944)
14) Jailhouse Rock (1957)
15) Kannapolis, NC (1941)
16) Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
17) The Nutty Professor (1963)
18) OffOn (1968)
19) Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
20) Pups is Pups (Our Gang) (1930)
21) Schindler's List (1993)
22) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
23) Swing Time (1936)
24) There It Is (1928)
25) Unforgiven (1992)

I wonder how much influence, intentional or not, administrations have over things like this and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Yeah, well, somebody explain to me why Elton John got a Kennedy Center Honor. Elton John.

W was kind of rocking out during the Billy Joel "Bennie and the Jets." That was his era, after all.

Don't those things have to be awarded to American people, or is Elton John now one of 'us'?

Swing Time but no Swing Kids? WTF?

Eraserhead but no Eraser, nor Head?