• E. T. phone home. - Joe Welsh (voice) (E. T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL)
• You know, Billy. We blew it. - Peter Fonda (EASY RIDER)
• I am not an animal! I am a human being. I am a man. - John Hurt (THE ELEPHANT MAN)
• They're called boobs, Ed. - Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH)
• What an excellent day for an exorcism. - Linda Blair, Mercedes McCambridge (voice) (THE EXORCIST)
• You betcha! - Frances McDormand (FARGO)
• Hey, Bud, let's party! - Sean Penn (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)
• I won't be ignored, Dan! - Glenn Close (FATAL ATTRACTION)
• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Matthew Broderick (FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF)
• You can't handle the truth! - Jack Nicholson (A FEW GOOD MEN)
• If you build it, he will come. - Ray Liotta (voice) (FIELD OF DREAMS)
• First rule of Fight Club is -- you do not talk about Fight Club. - Brad Pitt (FIGHT CLUB)
• Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. - Jack Nicholson
  You want me to hold the chicken, huh? - Lorna Thayer
  I want you to hold it between your knees. - Jack Nicholson (FIVE EASY PIECES)
• Help me! Help me! - David Hedison (THE FLY)
• Be afraid. Be very afraid. - Geena Davis (THE FLY)
• I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? - Ingrid Bergman (FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS)
• Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does." - Michael Conner Humphreys (FORREST GUMP)
• My mama always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Tom Hanks (FORREST GUMP)
• Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star! - Warner Baxter (42ND STREET)
• I'm your worst fucking nightmare, man! A nigger with a badge. - Eddie Murphy (48 HOURS)
• It's alive! It's alive! - Colin Clive (FRANKENSTEIN)
• Gooble gooble, gooble gooble. We accept her. One of us, one of us. - Ensemble (FREAKS)
• When's the last time you picked your feet, Willy? Who's your connection, Willy? What's his name? I've got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you. You ever been to Poughkeepsie? - Gene Hackman (THE FRENCH CONNECTION)
• Damn! - Chris Tucker, Ice Cube (FRIDAY)
• Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance. - Kathy Bates (FRIED GREEN TOMATOES)
• What is your major malfunction? - R. Lee Ermey (FULL METAL JACKET)
• Hello, gorgeous. - Barbra Streisand (FUNNY GIRL)
• If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. - Ben Kingsley (GANDHI)
• But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart! - Ingrid Bergman (GASLIGHT)
• Chance is the fool's name for fate. - Fred Astaire (THE GAY DIVORCEE)
• I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever. - Marilyn Monroe (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES)
• It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. - Patrick Swayze (GHOST)
• We came. We saw. We kicked its ass. - Bill Murray (GHOSTBUSTERS)
• I've been slimed. - Bill Murray (GHOSTBUSTERS)
• If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing. - Rita Hayworth (GILDA)
• Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Russell Crowe (GLADIATOR)
• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. - Marlon Brando (THE GODFATHER)
• Leave the gun. Take the cannolis. - Richard S. Castellano (THE GODFATHER)
• It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. - Richard S. Castellano (THE GODFATHER)
• I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
• Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel. - Lee Strasberg (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
• Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
• A martini. Shaken, not stirred. - Sean Connery (GOLDFINGER)
• Fiddle-dee-dee. - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
• I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies. - Butterfly McQueen (GONE WITH THE WIND)
• As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
• After all, tomorrow is another day! - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. - Clark Gable (GONE WITH THE WIND)
• Good morning, Vietnam! - Robin Williams (GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM)
• Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? - Joe Pesci (GOODFELLAS)
  
• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you? - Dustin Hoffman (THE GRADUATE)
• Plastics. - Walter Brooke (THE GRADUATE)
• I want to be alone. - Greta Garbo (GRAND HOTEL)
• Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. - Henry Fonda (THE GRAPES OF WRATH)
• If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. - William Demarest (THE GREAT McGINTY)
• Out here, due process is a bullet. - John Wayne (THE GREEN BERETS)
• You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. - Sidney Poitier (GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER)
• We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together. - John Dall (GUN CRAZY)
• You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. - Cary Grant (GUNGA DIN)
• L-I-V-E! Live! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room. - Ruth Gordon (HAROLD AND MAUDE)
• Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. - James Stewart (HARVEY)
• Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? - Jean Harlow (HELL'S ANGELS)
• It's good to be the king! - Mel Brooks (HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I)
• You sing-a high. - Chico Marx
  Yes, I have a falsetto voice. - Thelma Todd
  That's-a funny; my last pupil she got-a false set-a teeth. - Chico Marx (HORSE FEATHERS)
• Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then. - Roddy McDowall (HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)
• I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away. - Paul Newman (HUD)
• Sanctuary! - Charles Laughton (THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME)
• Eddie, you're a born loser. - George C. Scott (THE HUSTLER)
• How do you live? - Helen Vinson
  I steal. - Paul Muni (I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG)
• Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men. - Mae West (I'M NO ANGEL)
• I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. - Humphrey Bogart (IN A LONELY PLACE)
• They call me Mister Tibbs! - Sidney Poitier (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT)
• To God, there is no zero. I still exist. - Grant Williams (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN)
• They're here already! You're next! You're next! - Kevin McCarthy (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS)
• Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. - Claudette Colbert (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT)
• What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. - James Stewart (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
• To my big brother George, the richest man in town! - Todd Karns (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
• Look, Daddy. Teacher says, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings." - Karolyn Grimes (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)

• Eighty-five terrorists were killed in a raid in central Iraq
• shopkeepers picked up weapons and fired back at terrorists who were, well, terrorizing
• the death rate for American soldiers has declined steeply since January's election, and the total for March should be the lowest in more than a year.
• Iraqi electrical workers marched through Baghdad to protest against terrorism

TIGER & TAVISTOCK

Tiger Woods' preparation for the Masters now includes the Tavistock Cup.

Woods will be playing for Isleworth Country Club when it tries to retain its title against Lake Nona, two exclusive clubs in Orlando where several touring professionals live.

The matches will be played at Isleworth the Monday and Tuesday after The Players Championship.

Mark O'Meara returns as captain for Isleworth, and his team features three major champions (O'Meara, Woods and Lee Janzen), along with Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, Craig Parry, Scott Hoch, John Cook and Charles Howell III.

Ernie Els is playing captain of Lake Nona, with a squad that includes four major winners (Els, Annika Sorenstam, Retief Goosen and Nick Faldo), joined by Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Trevor Immelman, Justin Rose and Mark McNulty.

Isleworth won last year, 14 1/2-9 1/2, at Lake Nona.

"The pessimistic interpretation is that this administration has to give sop to the far right. There was Bolton and now Wolfowitz -- where does it stop?"

Greenpeace called it "a disaster to put the World Bank, which should be delivering sustainable development, into the hands of a man who clearly will put U.S. and oil industry interests first."

said in a statement that the announcement "speaks volumes for the need to reform a process which is neither transparent nor based on merit. . . . As well as lacking any relevant experience, he is a deeply divisive figure who is unlikely to move the Bank towards a more pro-poor agenda."

Francois Heisbourg, a leading French defense analyst who knows Wolfowitz, said the first reaction of many was "fear and loathing," but added, "Paul is a man who has intellectual depth. He's not a one-agenda, single-point man." He said that as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, Wolfowitz helped steer the country toward democracy.

"He does have the breadth of experience and range of interests that could serve him well in this kind of soft-power job," Heisbourg said. "He's probably more suited to this soft-power position than his hard-power position at the Pentagon."

The Court majority once more exhibited for all to see that dazzling combination of lawlessness and moral presumption which increasingly characterizes its Bill of Rights jurisprudence.

The Supreme Court, though conceding that retribution and deterrence are valid functions of the death penalty, intoned that "we have established the propriety and affirmed the necessity of referring to 'the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society' to determine which punishments are so disproportionate as to be cruel and unusual." That means the justices' views evolve, which is, by definition, progress. ... The majority did not, and could not, explain why any state is forbidden to make a policy choice — denied its constitutional sovereignty — because other states disagree with it.

The Court ignored the fact that juries, unlike the Court, do not decide such issues categorically but by evaluation of the individual and must take youth into account as one mitigating factor.

Since the nations of Europe have, among others, abolished the death penalty, the Court seems to be suggesting that we (or rather the justices) should do likewise. After all, "[w]e have previously recognized the relevance of the views of the international community in determining whether a punishment is cruel and unusual." If the meaning of a document over 200 years old can be affected by the current state of world opinion, James Madison and his colleagues labored in vain.

What is really alarming about Roper and other cases citing foreign law (six justices now engage in that practice) is that the Court, in tacit coordination with foreign courts, is moving toward a global bill of rights. Neither our courts nor the foreign courts are bound by actual constitutions. Prof. Lino Graglia was quite right when he said that "the first and most important thing to know about American constitutional law is that it has virtually nothing to do with the Constitution." That is certainly the case with the Bill of Rights. From abortion to homosexual sodomy, from religion to political speech and pornography, from capital punishment to discrimination on the basis of race and sex, the Court is steadily remaking American political, social, and cultural life. As Justice Antonin Scalia once said in dissent, "Day by day, case by case, [the Court] is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."

The courts of the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, and almost all Western countries are doing the same thing, replacing the meaning of their charters with their own preferences. Nor are these judicial alterations random. The culture war evident in the United States is being waged internationally, both within individual nations and in international institutions and tribunals. It is a war for dominance between two moral visions of the future. One is the liberal-elite preference for radical personal autonomy and the other is the general public’s desire for some greater degree of community and social authority. Elite views are fairly uniform across national boundaries, and since American and foreign judges belong to elites and respond to elite views, judge-made constitutions tend to converge. It hardly matters what particular constitutions say or were understood to mean by those who adopted them.

Judges are not, of course, the only forces for a new elite global morality. Governments and non-governmental organizations are actively promoting treaties, conventions, and new institutions (the International Criminal Court, for example) that embody their view that sovereignty and nation-states are outmoded and that we must move toward regional or even global governance. American self-government and sovereignty would be submerged in a web of international regulations. The Supreme Court, in decisions like Roper, adds constitutional law to the web. That is the one strand, given our current acceptance of judicial supremacy, that cannot be rejected democratically. What is clear is that foreign elites understand the importance of having the Supreme Court on their side, which is precisely why their human-rights organizations have begun filing amicus briefs urging our Supreme Court to adopt the foreign, elite view of the American Constitution.

Roper is one more reason that it is urgent that the president nominate and battle for justices who will rein in a Court run amok.