Two more fun tidbits from Roger Ebert's Movie Answer Man column:

1. Pursuant to our discussion of a certain beautiful, if relentlessly grim, starlet and the end of a pier, in the deleted scenes of A Beautiful Mind, there's apparently a moment where Russell Crowe dreams of Jennifer Connelly running down toward a dock on a lake. As Ebert says, "I'm beginning to have that same dream."

2. Ebert writes: "You know how on the Letterman show, Dave sometimes whispers in a guest's ear at the end of a segment? Whenever I'm on the show, he recites Steak 'n Shake's 'four ways to enjoy,' which are, of course, Car, Table, Counter and (their spelling) Takhomasak." No comment.