Diner News

If you can answer this question, I applaud you. If not, there's a good chance you haven't seen one of the greatest buddy films of all time, 1982's "Diner." This column generally focuses on cult films and lost gems.

The 2012 Hollywood Portfolio Apocalyptic or silent, gender-bending or motion-capturing, the year's top films get star treatment from V.F.' s ace photographers, while Bruce Handy, David Kamp, Juli Weiner, and Jim Windolf provide the bar bets, parlor games, and Oscar cred.

Kevin Bacon, left, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern and Timothy Daly have all gone on to lasting careers.

Barry Levinson, responsible for such films as Rain Man, Bugsy and Diner, channels the Abbott and Costello classic, Who's on First , to discourse on the difference between unemployment and people looking for work.

In case you're not a musical theater junkie and not in the know, Barry Levinson along with Sheryl Crow and director Kathleen Marshall are trying to get a musical off the ground based on his 1982 autobiographical movie Diner.