What Women Want concerns Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson), an oinking skirt chaser at a Chicago ad agency who magically acquires the power to hear women thinking. It comes in handy when new boss Darcy McGuire (Helen Hunt) accuses Nick of not knowing how to pitch products to females, and not so handy when he hears women downsize his talents in bed. Hey, wait a minute, we're talking Oscar watch for this cream puff? You bet. Back in 1988, Working Girl — another office romp — won five nominations, including one for Best Picture. It helps that director and co-writer Nancy Meyers grounds this comic moonbeam in canny human observation. And Gibson, flashing megawatt charm, has never been funnier, looser or sexier. He dances with a coat rack, duets with Sinatra and does his own product research by painting his toenails, waxing his legs and wiggling into pantyhose. Go, Braveheart! While Darcy teaches Nick that love is more than boinking, a terrific cast, including Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda and Bette Midler, keeps the laughs coming. Women is the naughty-and-nice romantic comedy we've been missing all year. It has "winner" written all over it.

“All Along the Watchtower”

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."