Towards the very end of “The Big Lebowski,” the Stranger -- an old-fashioned cowboy played by Sam Elliot who narrates the movie -- tells the audience that he'll "catch ya later on down the trail."

At the time, it seemed like a quant finale to, as Roger Ebert put it in his 1998 Chicago Su- Times review, "a genial, shambling comedy."

“Don’t call it a comeback/I’ve been here for years.”

The lyric is from LL Cool J’s 1990 hit “Mama Said Knock You Out,” but you could just as easily apply it to Eminem today.

Call it a tale of two types of towns.

Barack Obama’s appearance in Las Vegas Tuesday night at a Caesar’s Palace fundraiser that brought in $2 million for incumbent Harry Reid saw the President share billing with Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow.