The 1980 comedy Airplane!, starring the late Leslie Nielson, also made the list, as did Elia Kazan's first feature, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, from 1945.
Their images included artifacts from airplanes, stars, even their own instruments.
Still not satisfied, I ordered a model airplane and 3D Star Shooter, which turns a room into a planetarium.
For example, Leslie Neilsen, the star of Airplane! and Blake Edwards, the writer and director of The Pink Panther, are fresh in the public's memory after having both died recently.
Whereas children of his generation created Legolands that sprang full-blown from their imaginations, today's kids, he says, can buy Lego kits to build "precise replicas of Ferrari Formula I racers, pirate galleons, jet airplanes," not to mention "Star Wars" kits and other "ventures into trademarked, conglomerate-owned, pre-imagined environments".
He also co-starred in Airplane.
What with Babs Billingsley, Pete Graves, and now Leslie Nielson, this was a bad year for the stars of Airplane!
But the work still bears her unmistakable signature: the cheerful exuberance that characterized much of her earlier art, often along with her signature airplanes, mischievous cats, stars and crescent moons.
All Presidents want to leave a legacy, but a man who has put his name on buildings, airplanes, and "five-star gourmet quality" steaks surely has more in mind than a Presidential library.
Feel free to add your own: A Tantrum for the Holidays A well-known TV star on an airplane flight forces the pilot to abort his takeoff and prompts a nationwide military alert because he won't stop playing games on his cellphone.
