Badlands! The Musical

"Badlands! I Am Cuba!" writes novelist and impresario Amanda Stern. She is responding, much too late, to our recent "fave" movie poll. As Stern points out in her email, neither of those titles have exclamation points, really, but wouldn't the world be a better place if they did (my speculation, not Stern's)? Stern's note reminded me that I have a considerable backlog of "fave" movies to report, if I haven't lost them. Sorry, everybody. It seemed like a good idea at the time but ended up involving a lot of typing, which wearied me. I am a delicate man! You knew that going in!