In the summer of 1995 I took a trip to the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico. There was a guy that looked just like Tommy Lee Jones staying at my hotel. I had seen Tommy Lee at a restuarant in Houston once before, so I knew he was even more handsome in person. I have always been a fan, way before he became a huge star. Anyway this guy claimed that he lived in Texas City and worked in the Oil industry. He was traveling with a man named Gene, but he never told me his name. At the time I was reading the book, Lonesome Dove, which of course Tommy Lee had starred in. This guy spoke spanish very well. In the back of my mind I have always wondered if that was Tommy Lee Jones I had met. I have tried to find out through internet searches if Tommy Lee spoke Spanish, with no luck. I usually read Salon for the political articles but I am happy I read this article. Yes, Tommy Lee speaks Spanish! Thank you! Maybe I will never know if that was him, but it adds one more piece to the puzzle.

Sui generis? English is a healthy living language with a wide selection of words. I'm pretty sure we can find a common English word or phrase without having to reach for an uncommon Latin import. Might I suggest "unique?" I'd suggest "in a class of his own", but that would be redundant with "unclassifiable," which you've already used.

"Finally, if you were concerned that there was only one campy

film called "Trapped by the Mormons," that unintentional silent classic

from the 1920s has been remade by a group of Washington hipsters

(now relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y.). You don't want or need a learned

treatise on this topic, but apparently Mormons were perceived in

early-20th century Britain as a murderous cult that abducted young women

into polygamous sexual servitude."

Even before the early-20th century...

The evil villians of the first Sherlock Holmes story, 'A Study in Scarlet' were Mormons.

Sr. Rojo