A good publicist. Robin Hood is supposed to be a man of the people, the original trickle-down economist, but without that spin he's just some dick who robs people.

Halle Berry going topless in Swordfish.

There are different songs for different moods, from "Let’s start a fire by the bearskin rug" to "Let’s break some shit." But I’d go with anything by Peaches, followed by early Prince, when he was more openly sexually deviant, and then wrap it up with M.O.P.

Just because you throw on Carhartts, a lumberjack print and some unlaundered twill doesn’t make you rugged. You’re not really rugged unless you wear raw wool underwear.

I couldn’t make it to a function honoring George Lucas, so I sent my George Lucas action figure in my place. I made sure I got a photo of George with little George. When we finally met, I introduced myself as the guy who’d sent the action figure to meet him, and he remembered me.