At last! A Bianculli Best Bets list that includes wrestling -- and Sly -- and Hef -- and flying saucers. I wondered up till now whenyou were going to drop that high-brow facade and reveal what you REALLY like. Hope you're honest like this every first of April.

[My greatest fear was that people WOULDN'T get the joke. Thanks for putting me at ease. -- DB]

April Fools!!

And, like an April Fool, I was reading your first set of "Best Bets" and wondering if you were ok. Jersey Shore...Kendra...wrestling... I get it.

And, yes, I can imagine a tv world without reality shows. I lived in it for years and never felt I was missing a beat. All I can say is: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead -- where are you??

And as a professor, David, what is your take on this morning's news that Snooki is being paid $2,000 more than Maya Angelou was paid to speak at Rutgers University? SNOOKI, Dear God...

[All things are relative, I guess: even the relative values of Poet Laureates vs. Spew-It Idiots. -- DB]

I don't know Dave...talk here on Campus is that RU withdrew their offer to Bryan Cranston after someone leaked your recommendations to the Dean of the Communications College yesterday...

And now word out of Trenton that Gov. Christie is taking The Situation out on the road with him for his NJ promotional events....

You're clearly a pillar in the industry, Dave...

Phil

(and oh, by the way, 'Close Encounters of the Third Reich' still has me smiling and shaking my head...)

[Thanks. I was inordinately proud of that one -- especially since it hadn't occurred to me until after I selected the show and started writing the item. -- DB]

Since I know that I don't always agree with your choices I was trying really hard to stay open minded about your page one picks. I even read through them a couple times without being enlightened. :P
Phew! Fooled me!

[I tried to keep the recommendations dual-edged, so they SOUNDED positive. But Jersey Shore? You're WAY too nice... -- DB]