The eulogy he gave for Geraldine Page choked me the hell up. Can’t remember if I read it or if it was recorded somewhere.

Any project Rip Torn was in was made better. ‘Member Extreme Prejudice? Decent Walter Hill action movie with Nick Nolte vs Powers Boothe, plus Maria Conchita Alonso and Clancy Brown... But Rip Torn is in the first few scenes and gives the whole thing an authenticity that it wouldn’t have had. Also - anyone who hasn’t…

I thought he died a few years ago too. Then I thought I got him confused with Rip Taylor. But I just saw that Rip Taylor is still alive. So now I’m more confused than ever.

To look like the Rock does you need to almost 100% dedicate your diet to eating foods that make you look the way he does

Glad to see Cloverfield on this list. One thing I think could have made that one a bit more “found” though: They should have, like Blair Witch, used everyone’s real names. I mean, I recognized TJ Miller and Lizzy Caplan, but if they’d been pretending to play themselves at that birthday party, it might have given it a…

confusion between HBO Go, HBO Now and, soon, HBO Max.

I’m rewatching the show on Netflix and I stand by my opinion - that is one well-written, well-acted show. I can’t think of one episode that didn’t have at least one or two laugh-out-loud moments. As for Ross... yeah, America doesn’t like him, he’s dull, a wimp, whatever. But Schwimmer is great in the role, and one…

Suicide can be made funny - Burt Reynolds’ The End, already mentioned below, was good. And there’s always Four Lions which made suicide bombing funny. So it can be done. Maybe Farrelly can do it, maybe not. Just because Green Book wasn’t good doesn’t mean he should quit the biz. (And actually I didn’t see Green Book…

I’m pretty sure we’re screwed if mermaids start getting legs and begin invading our precious land.

Okay, so in the remake of Lady and the Tramp, we should get real dogs for the voices. We all know the story and what they should be saying, so if we just hear growls and barks and obnoxious slurping during the spaghetti scene, we should be fine. This would also neatly sidestep the Siamese Cat thing; they would just be…

Maybe I’d care if they were doing a Dunk & Egg show.

Saw a PBS documentary on him recently. Kinda felt sorry for what happened: at one point he dropped out, because the media scrutiny on his family was just too much, and unnecessary, and in a lot of cases mean (he thought; I agreed with him by the way). Then he took stock, came back in, and ... many of his former…

I’d heard of him before his presidential run; I read Ken Follet’s 1983 non-fiction book On Wings of Eagles. Its’s about the rescue operation Perot bankrolled to get a couple of his employees out of a Tehran prison. The impression I got of Perot was basically - yep, here’s a guy to work for.

They should change the name to further distance the character. I’m thinking “the Jokester”.

Jaden literally just dropped an album, like last Friday. any generic music player app or even visiting the famous site YouTube could direct you to some of the music from that album

Yeah, some Netflix originals are just... not good. I watched the first ten minutes of Game Over, Man. It’s weird to watch a movie - well, ten minutes of it- with high production values, a talented cast and a decentish idea (well, it’s Die Hard with stoners, so almost decentish) that just lays there. Maybe it got…

Netflix is one of the few streaming services offered internationally

Garelick mentioned that he wanted to make this movie so his four kids could “share some of the experience”

Okay, well, I might have headlined it: Mad Magazine is fold-in’! But no, I know it doesn’t make any sense so never mind.

I can see Crowe himelf being puzzled by his popularity during this period. He was probably sent every script for major projects*. But... it wasn’t puzzling for most people. Even non-fans of Crowe’s work could see that he was a draw, and that in general the movies he did made money.