IT'S ERIE'S OWN O-NEED-ERS! For anyone with digital cable and nothing much going on tonight: one of those all-time great curl-up-on-the-couch-whenever-this-movie-turns-up movies is on HBO4 right now: That Thing You Do!

Just a few random thoughts before I join Mr. Cosmo on the couch:

• Liv Tyler has never looked lovelier than she does in this movie.
• Part of what makes this movie so great is one of the things that doomed Studio 60 to failure. Studio 60's sketch comedy = not funny. The hit song that drives the Oneders Wonders to fleeting fame and negligible fortune = brilliantly catchy. (And the movie is ballsy in that regard -- think about how many times that song is played over the course of the movie. If the song hadn't worked, the movie would have been DOA.)
• I have never not gotten choked up during the scene when "That Thing You Do!" is played on the radio for the first time. It always happens the same way: I get a little misty when Fay hears the song at the mailbox and realizes what's going on, and it escalates until the car carrying Steve Zahn screeches to a halt in front of the appliance store, at which point I lose it entirely.

STILL HATES SNAKES: He's certainly showing his age, but the first picture of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (in costume! on set!) from the shoot certainly doesn't seem like the magic is gone.

SADLY, JOSHUA MALINA HAS OTHER COMMITMENTS: Sure, come next Thursday, we won't have Aaron Sorkin to kick around any more on TV, but come the fall, we get both Sorkin's first produced screenplay in 12 years (and look at that cast!), and his return to Broadway with The Farnsworth Invention. Anyone up for an outing?

RELATING A QUESTION WHICH MY WIFE HAS ASKED ME: Who, exactly, is the intended or expected audience for the Daniel Pearl biopic A Mighty Heart? Angelina Jolie fans? As with United 93 or Letters from Iwo Jima, both of which I still really want to and yet don't quite want to see, who's spending $9.50 on a a summer night choosing to see that? Are there enough fans of the guy who played the douchey son in The Birdcage?

TOP 100 MOVIES IN WHICH SOMEONE STICKS IT TO THE MAN: The American Film Institute has now produced a canon for the 100 Best Movies, Inspirational Movies, Thrilling Movies, Funny Movies, Romantic Movies, Movie Stars, White Movie Heroes and Villains, Songs in Movies and Movie Quotes.

What list would you like to see them tackle next? Many here have rallied around the idea of "Best Movies About People from 15-25," or some other way of defining "teen/young adult movies" (is Pete "Maverick" Mitchell too old for the list?). I'd also like to see 100 Best Movies of the Blockbuster Era -- i.e., from Jaws forward. What else?

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MEANWHILE RINGO WAS RECENTLY SPIED BUSKING "THE NO-NO SONG" AT THE HAMPSTEAD HEATH TUBE STATION: Three of the four Beatles left their mark on the upper reaches of this week's album chart with Paul McCartney holding steady at No. 3 with "Memory Almost Full" (and is it me, or does the intro of the song "Vintage Clothes" borrow a little too heavily from the intro of Fleetwood Mac's "Say You Love Me"?), the re-issue of the George Harrison's Traveling Wilburys output debuting at No. 9 and a tribute album of John Lennon's songs with proceeds going toward Darfur coming in at No. 15.

Fear not Ringo fans. Come August you'll finally be able to get a ringtone of "You're Sixteen," perhaps the most inappropriate love song this side of "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo."

ALL IT TAKES ARE TWO LITTLE WORDS: Was it just me, or was tonight's Studio 60 an apology from Sorkin for "Isaac and Ishmael" (coupled with a variation on "The Apology")? Writers attempt to make an immediate response to 9/11, which seems like a good idea at the time, and then gets lambasted throughout the media for being ineffective in getting there. Seems that Sorkin has now realized that distance helps in shedding some light, and this one wound up being pretty good. (Not quite as good as the Brothers and Sisters flashback from earlier this season, but nice work all around, especially from Steven Weber.) Seems like the show finally has found its rhythm in these final few episodes, making both the early slog and the cancellation even sadder.