For those of you who live in the L.A. area: This Sunday evening, the Aero Theater out in Santa Monica is running It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. As you know, I've been pushing the new Criterion DVD/Blu-ray set of this which comes with all sorts of great special features, including a "restored" version which puts back lots of footage and a commentary track on that version featuring three Mad World experts, one of whom is me. You should buy that but if you haven't seen the movie — or haven't seen it in a long time — you oughta see it first on a big screen with an audience. I suspect this will be the last time you'll be able to do that in or around Los Angeles for a while.
They're running a digital print of the general release version (not the restored one) and the whole thing's intended as a tribute to Sid Caesar who is, of course, wonderful in the movie. The web page where you can still purchase tickets says "Check back for guest updates!" but I haven't heard of any. I expect to be there. You might want to be. And if you're coming from the Malibu area, take the California Incline out on P.C.H. to get there. Then when we get to the scenes in the movie that were shot there, you can point and go, "Hey, I just drove up that road!"