Apex Mountain
Shari Headley; Allison Dean; Clint Smith; Jheri curls in film
In the discussion (13)
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- Eddie Murphy is not at Apex here.
- Arsenio Hall is proposed as at Apex, but the objection is that the Arsenio Hall Show is his apex, with 1989 preferred.
- James Earl Jones's apex is debated: this film and Field of Dreams, the 70s, the voice of Darth Vader, the Yellow Pages ads, possibly no apex, or Sandlot as a belated apex.
- Best of the Best is jokingly named as an apex and a future Rewatchables pick.
- Shari Headley and the other sister are "definitely Apex for both".
- St. John's is no, because the 1985 team with Chris Mullin, Walter Berry and Mark Jackson was better.
- Clint Smith is a yes.
- Hot tubs are raised; the Coming to America hot tub is admired, but others point to Julia Roberts and Eddie's James Brown sketch.
- For Jheri curls, Soul Glo is both the nadir and the apex, at least in film.
- Queens isn't treated well enough to be at Apex, and classy New York hotels peak with Home Alone.
- Barbershop conversations were copied for 33 years, but the movie Barbershop is judged the apex for barbershops.
- The category should be specific to Black barbershops because Mississippi Burning has a barbershop scene the same year. — Wesley Morris
- It's got to be Barbershop.