Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat?

I first learned about James Thurber's The Last Flower: A Parable In Pictures back in 1972 while watching the movie "The War Between Men and Women". A few years ago a friend of mine found a first edition copy of the book that I have coveted ever since.

The entire story, along with the drawings, is also available online.

It's time for holiday movies starting with my favorite Thanksgiving flick, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" featuring my friend Kelly's Dad, Bill Erwin. I have a feeling I'll be seeing him again before the season is over. Hmm....

I just finished watching the Blu-ray version of The Dark Knight, the sequel to the movie Batman Begins. I had seen it in the theater earlier this year and was so impressed then with the late Heath Ledger's amazing performance as The Joker that it was the first Blu-ray disc I bought.

It started me thinking about a few of my favorite movie villains. There was Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Edward Norton in Primal Fear and Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in the original Die Hard; but I think that Heath Ledger's Joker is probably my all time favorite.



By the way, here is Time's list of the Top 25 Greatest Villains. This list was compiled in 2007, before the release of The Dark Knight. I'm wondering, who are your favorite bad boys (or girls, as the case may be)?