[astounded]

Or Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" as the "United" song. It goes on and on, but I don't know that this is unique to our era. That question would be an interesting dissertation project for an enterprising PhD student studying history.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Actually, United Airlines needs a new song called "Rhapsody in Red"... ;)

LXG is a disastrous film, but the "Call me Ishmael" line was one of the few that made me laugh. Had they dumped the phony James Bond stuff and made an entire film full of such literary allusions, it might have worked. But it tries to straddle the fence and ended up losing both audiences. Too bad, because it could have been a great movie.