The Slice Spokane Ought To Be In Pictures
We awarded the tickets to the Greek Festival to Bill Hudson for his suggestion that the movie title that says it all about Spokane is “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
Among the others readers mentioned were “Dazed and Confused,” “Vision Quest,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “A River Runs Through It,” “High Hopes,” “The Great Escape,” “Pillow Talk,” “A Few Good Men,” “American Graffiti,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “The Abyss,” “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break,” “Waterworld,” “The Parent Trap,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “Bus Stop,” “Gypsy,” “The Big Sleep,” “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” “Lost in America,” “Places in the Heart,” “The Way We Were,” “Moscow on the Hudson,” “Grumpy Old Men,” “Ship of Fools,” “East of Eden,” “Somewhere in Time,” “Far and Away,” “Clueless,” “Who’s Minding the Store?” and “The Land that Time Forgot.”
Thanks to the dozens of readers who faxed us.
Slice answer: “We cut our umbilical cord to the TV almost three years ago,” wrote Diane Martinson of St. Maries. “At first we really missed only two shows (‘Northern Exposure’ and ‘Dr. Quinn’) which my mother would videotape for us. But we have lost interest in even these programs, so that we can now say that we miss NOTHING.”
Actual question posed by a demonstration cook at Tidyman’s in the Spokane Valley: “Would you like to try some ground ostrich?”
Here’s a swell lesson to teach a kid: One of our colleagues overheard a man stepping into a crosswalk with a preschool girl say “It says ‘Don’t Walk,’ but we can go anyway.”
No jokes, please: Today is National Depression Screening Day. Call 1-800-262-4444 to find out about the screening site nearest you.
Today’s Slice question (for kids only): What Halloween treat do trick-or-treaters really want? (Yes, it’s early. But we want to be able to report the answers in time to influence shopping decisions.)
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