Jonah: I can never watch a jewelry commercial without recalling that scene

in The Lords of Flatbush where Sly Stallone, in his first decent movie

role, is inviegled by his girlfriend into buying her an expensive engagement

ring that is way beyond his means. At the end of the scene Sly asks the

girlfriend to leave the store while he organizes payment for the ring. Then

he says to the jeweler: “If you ever show my girl a ring like that again,

you know what’s gonna be written on your tombstone? ‘I was dumb enough to

show Frannie Malincanico a $1600 ring.’ Ya got that?” For my money this is

still, after all these years, Sly’s greatest movie moment.