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When longtime Laugh-In announcer Gary Owens died Feb. 13, one of the great voices of the past century was stilled.

For our third Movies for Grownups Radio Show, back in 2003, we celebrated the arrival of 2004 with this rundown of our favorite New Year's Eve movies. Still a pretty good list. What would you add?

Notable events from our shared experience.

Here's one of the first Movies for Grownups Radio Shows we ever did-10 years ago in 2003. But the list of my favorite New Year's Eve movies still stands up!

While the world was watching for white smoke from the Vatican chimney, the undisputed master of American songwriting in the post-Tin Pan Alley era was himself inducted into an exclusive club. Officials of the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that Bob Dylan had been elected, the first…

 

            Every year my extended family and I have a nationwide Academy Awards Pick 'em. We sit through the ceremony, dutifully checking off actual winners versus our predictions, and then we honor the most accurate prognosticator with congratulatory e-mails.

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. This year's list of Oscar nominees is so terrifically, breathtakingly right, I thought I must have been dreaming when they were announced early this morning. I've never come away from the Oscars announcement more satisfied that Hollywood really, really gets it-that the…

Click the link below to hear the 2-minute show from December 23, 2003; the third show we ever did. Why was I talking so slow???