In today's episode of Things I Only Learned Just Recently, we discover that Michelle Pfeiffer apparently really has a thing for playing a puss on-screen. Long before her Catwoman days, Michelle was Samantha "Sunshine" Jensen, an LAPD officer part of a special unit called the Burglary Auto Detail (B.A.D.), on the short-lived 1980s series,  B.A.D. Cats. Produced by Aaron Spelling, the show centered around the special unit whose sole purpose involved tracking down car thieves in high-speed chases, with Michelle in booty shorts and her bouncy hair and lots of "wacka-wacka" music going on in the background, probably. Fortunately, and unlike my long-running Things I Only Learned Just Recently  series, B.A.D. Cats  only lasted 10 episodes, opening the door for her to REALLY show us the full range of her craft in future projects: And thank fuck for that

"Scarface" is now 40 years old, and if you saw it in a movie theatre during its original 1983 run, then, oh, my, you're getting up there, aren't you? Me? I wasn't even a stye in my mother's eye yet (just go with me on this) (because you know it's true). As you're likely aware, "Scarface" was a remake of the 1932 original directed by Howard Hawks and headlined by Paul Muni. But this wasn't just any remake. Though it was released in 1983, having been kicked around in development in the late 1970s, I've always looked upon it as a late-1970s movie which predicted the 1980s-era of unshackled greed, or the coke-snorting, bloody reality of Reaganomics.  This isn't a stretch on my part. Though the script was written by Oliver Stone, there was a reason De Palma famously kicked Stone off the set once shooting commenced, since De Palma, though excited by Stone's dialogue - which is gloriously obscene - was far more interested in creating...