A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

HEY MAN, NICE SHOT: A few random tidbits:

• I'm not in love with You're The One That I Want, but I'm not giving up on NBC's American Idol For White Non-Southerners either. Now that we're down to the Talented Twelve, we'll see what happens as we try really hard not to just compare the performers to Travolta and Newton-John.
• Jon Stewart just referred to the Vows Section of the Sunday Times as "where you find out which Ivy Leaguer married which other Ivy Leaguer . . . and at which temple." Hee.
  
• Did you know that the same actor, Kenneth Mars, played crazed Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in the original version of The Producers and later voiced King Triton in The Little Mermaid?
  
• For the Philadelphians in the audience, I probably shouldn't tell you that today was the twentieth anniversary of Budd Dwyer's demise. I have nothing but bad, nauseating memories from that day -- saw the events live, stuck home from school on a snow day.
  
• It has, thankfully, been more than a year since we've had to host our Dead Wrestler of the Month feature, having skipped John "Earthquake" Tenta's death from cancer last summer, but word has come in over the transom from Titan Towers that former WrestleMania headliner Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow has passed away. No cause of death yet, though Bigelow admitted a longtime OxyContin addiction in a 2005 interview. It's hard to think of a wrestler who combined size and agility like the Bigelow, and to learn that he (of the legendary tattooed skull) was reduced to living off his disability payments, well, that's just depressing. The "Beast from the East" was 45 years old.
• Finally, gang, while some may believe that “All first- and second-year attorneys are pretty terrible,” they're probably still better than the ones who aren't really attorneys at all.