Patton Oswalt Jan 30, Pantages Theatre, broadwaycenter. “And I got it in my head that one line can really make an impact on not only the scene that you’re in, but everything that follows afterward.”

“It’s just one line, but he delivers it so perfectly that it changes the tenor of the film,” he says. A bit on drugs and liquor from Patton Oswalt's 2009 special My Weakness Is Strong. But rather than Tom Hanks, it was Clint Howard who shifted Oswalt’s thinking. See more of Tulalip Resort Casino on Facebook. Take, for example, the time he saw Apollo 13 just before filming a bit part in the 1996 comedy Down Periscope. “I realized ‘Oh wait a minute if I saw that movie two days before doing this thing, then that affected this thing that I did,’ ” he says. The plan was to write about the low-budget space operas and black-and-white noirs he geeked out about at the time-until he looked at old calendars and started drawing connections between films he watched and jobs he had.

Ostensibly a followup to Oswalt’s first memoir, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Fiend is part autobiography and part love letter to the classic movies he gorged on while breaking into the LA comedy scene.