"Don't call it a comebaaaack."
The Chronicle's pop culture writer, Peter Hartlaub, did an amusing piece the other day about memorable movie taglines. Perhaps the most enduring -- and irritating -- tagline Hartlaub wrote about is from the 1986 sequel to Poltergeist. You all know it: "They're back." (The static written phrase doesn't adequately capture the high-pitched, sing-song voice of the little girl in the movie. It's more like, "They're baaaack.")
While few people can remember
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