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Back in 1988 there were some pretty cool films on the screen. Beetlejuice, Cocktail, Big, Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Coming To America, Dangerous Liasons, and the list goes on and on. Near the top of our favorites that year were Steve Martin and Michael Caine in the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

caucasian-millionaire epic The Jerk, a young hero narrowly eschews a rifle-wielding sniper with a hatred of... cans. This morning, plenty of people on the area's busiest expressways understood the sniper's vengeance, as nearly 20,000 pounds of canned food goods tumbled from an overturned big rig and caused a healthy traffic backup.

There’s a reason Blake Edwards received an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year. He was a master of what former Reader critic (and current New York Times DVD columnist) Dave Kehr called the “sophisticated comedy.” Never one to follow comic conventions – he accepted that Oscar with a staged wheelchair crash – his impressive body of work includes Chicagoist favorites The Party and 10 (which he reportedly wants to remake).