According to Hollywood legend, that’s just what Howard Hawks said when a tall elegant woman got off the train instead of the man he thought he’d hired to write dialogue for his films.

One of my favorite writers ever, Leigh Brackett is one of those few writers whose section in bookstore shelves I automatically scan on any visit, in hopes of finding an upgrade, an unknown title, or just a good edition I wouldn’t mind having a second — or third, or fourth — copy on my shelves. And that goes for her…

I’m certain I can still be an actor; I’m just a little unsure about how I get young again.

I hired the dolphin that read Silver’s mind to read Jim Gordon’s mind. The results:

In Gotham-logic, I’m guessing that if Hugo Strange brings Galavan back to life, that somehow negates the crime of Gordon having murdered him in cold blood. I also had the chilling notion that Gordon didn’t stop Penguin from beating Galavan to death in order to be merciful, but rather in order to show Penguin, “No, old…

Dramatically speaking, this show really needs to let Gordon win a battle. Right now, he’s a one-man roadshow of Gilligan’s Island, trying to get off the island and failing week after week. Perhaps they will let Mr Freeze rise to the point of nearly conquering Gotham, only to be stopped — perhaps killed, perhaps frozen…

‘Nuff said.

Okay, now everybody wants to know why I’m sitting alone in my office, laughing like an idiot. :)

Wouldn’t you just love to see Jacksonville adopt that as their official city motto? Certainly better than “Where Florida Begins.”

If he killed the demon before it was all the way out, that probably would have killed Kelly. Naturally, that wouldn’t be Ash’s reason. His reason would probably be that it would be a lot of work to kill the demon then — like walking eight, maybe ten feet over to the left to get an angle for the shot. :)

I know it’s too obvious — probably being saved for later — but I really did want Ash, upon receiving his new hand, to say, “Groovy.”

When I first heard about Ash vs. Evil Dead, I thought it a dumb idea, that they could never get that souffle to rise once again. I don’t know when I’ve been so utterly and completely delighted to be so utterly and completely WRONG. This show is a national treasure. No idea what nation, but some damn nation needs to…

Gotham really truly does need a good dose of “Whack!” “Splat!” “Thud!” doesn’t it?

I spent four hours with a friend at the ER last night. After reading this, in comparison with last night’s Gotham...not a bad evening!

Seems to me that on IO9 recently I’ve noticed a few instances of modern media’s “Some say” trope, wherein some anonymous, likely nonexistent person takes the hit for the reporter’s or news networks point of view. This is very sloppy writing.

My one piece of unsolicited advice: don’t change the robot. Give him the exact look as the original, come as close as possible to the original voice and personality. Give him extra functions, of course, time has moved on. But the robot is the keystone to lots of peoples’ affection for Lost in Space, and if you get…

If they’re going the direction I suspect, with lots of angst from young space-love, they’re either going to have to expand the crew, find lots of attractive humans in space, or go big into incest.

A minor kvetch: all those solo obelisks, when Egyptians always built them in pairs.

Ditch the pretty young man and replace eye-patch guy with Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, and Gods of Egypt becomes the greatest movie never made.

There’s a wonderful irony in that the only thing that can save Gotham the show is the only thing that can save Gotham the city — the arrival of Batman — and that’s probably the only thing that DC has contractually forbidden the series.