TODAY IS: Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday in the Christian liturgical calendar), also known as Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras. The fasting of Lent -- which begins tomorrow -- has typically been preceded by feasting and partying, which has been taken to its utmost extreme in the world's most famous Mardi Gras celebrations, in New Orleans, Louisiana. N'Awlins is the seductive setting of 1987's romantic thriller THE BIG EASY, in which Dennis Quaid's private eye sniffs out heroin and the Mob while unraveling Ellen Barkin's tightly wound assistant DA. Oh, my. [today's movie at IMDb]

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