Yesterday We Learned an All-Star Can Still Be Poop… and That Nora Ephron is now a man.

I saw *One Night Only* this weekend.

And somewhere between the premise that unmarried people are only allowed to have sex one night a year and me wondering exactly how many government employees would be required to enforce such a thing, I realized something.

**Will Gluck may be our modern-day Nora Ephron.**

I don’t mean he’s making *When Harry Met Sally…* again. Nobody needs to make *When Harry Met Sally…* again. We already have one. It’s fine. Leave it alone.

Also, I watch it every New Year’s Eve, and if there were two of them to watch I wouldn’t know how to sync them up for the appropriate “When you meet the person…” and then the clock changes.

Ya, I’m a hopeless romantic.

But Gluck seems to understand something that has gone missing from a lot of romantic comedies: people can actually be funny while falling in love.

They can talk.

They can be weird.

And then came perhaps the biggest upset of the weekend.

**This might be the only movie made in the last ten years with an Owl City reference.**

I had that at plus 5000.

Which naturally brings us to sports wagering.

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