1. The street cleaner, driven by a black driver who’s been attacked, plows into a clothing store. Running over a black mannequin.
2. Burl Ives heaps food on his plate. “Sour cream! Love it!”
3. Teeth exposed, tongue extended.

1. Complicated directions to the men’s room.
2. “My snakes! I’ve got to to find my snakes!”
3. Briefly, vividly, we see his monogrammed name on the side of the briefcase as he jams it into place on the gas pedal.

1. She keeps the model of the Empire State Building on the dining room table as a memento.
2. “Where are you going, in that dress?”
“To hell and back.”
“You’ll probably get there, in that dress.”
3. Ultrabright florescent light on the jetway. He sings “You Are My Sunshine.”

Now I have the answer to the question, “Would if Howard Hawks and Fellini had co-directed MOULIN ROUGE!?”

1. Asta encounters a skunk.
2. Nick gracefully punches Phil Church in the face and says, “That’s to remind you not to dream about my family.”
3. At the West Indies Club, Nick orders Bacardi. But he pronounces it “BACK-er-dee.”

3 other things.

1. “You have to say ‘fuck’ all the time, or no one will believe you’re Mexican.”
2. He beams with joy after pouring the coffee correctly.
3. Pausing in his work, he leans on his shovel and looks over at the foreman. Epiphany.

1. It’s refreshing to see a gratuitous car washing scene featuring a hot shirtless guy for once.
2. “Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt!”
3. John Ritter’s face impaled by a variety of nails.

1. At a fancy supper club, he lights his cigarette by setting some money on fire. He looks over at a startled matron and says, “I’ve always wanted to do that!”
2. For a moment he thinks that Drake has left him to die. He calmly looks off in the distance at the helicopter. Slowly the helicopter circles back around to pick him up.
3. The surface of the planet Zyra looks like a Chuck Jones painting.

1. The child watches the gravedigger refill his mother’s grave, then passes out. His father carries him home. The gravedigger continues in his work without a pause.
2. Pierrette is like a paleo-Tootie, like Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis. Witness the scene where she gleefully smears wild berries all over her face.
3. He stares into the water, frightened. As the river churns and churns he pictures his dead mother pouring milk into bucket.

1. Both Mike and Velda have a bottle of Kentucky Tavern bourbon at their apartments.
2. The look on his face as he smashes the coroner’s fingers in the desk drawer.
3. “Kiss me, Mike. I want you to kiss me.”

1. The headboard of Smiley’s bed is divided into three compartments.
2. “That’s how I know he can be beaten. He’s a fanatic. Fanatics always conceal a grave doubt.”
3. Extreme telephoto. They stand on the runway talking. The plane is bearing down on them, then veers slightly and stops.