All religions are “fake.” Which means, in a way, they’re all “real.” Because it’s not what the religion preaches that is the arbiter of “real” or “fake,” but the adherents’ zeal and dedication to following those teachings that are the qualifiers.

Waiting for Gadot

Gotta hide the blue checks to make it look like Twitter has more engagement than just the Elon Mafia and white supremacists. All about image, y’know!

It’s a movie of the Extremely 1980s genre for sure, but it stands out to me even after all this time for having a sweet little story without needing some dark and looming threat.

His original live set - the one with “Take Luck!” - is the one that hooked me. The Comedy Central Presents set, Epitome, and I Walked On The Moon are all just genuinely great.

One role not mentioned: his voiceover role as Max, the spaceship in Flight of the Navigator, back in the ‘80s. He was credited as “Paul Mall” but it was obviously Reubens, especially toward the end when Max develops a laugh which was 100% Pee-Wee. A lot of ‘80s kids remember that role fondly.

I’m a bit disappointed that Brian Regan: Live! isn’t on the list. Or maybe The Epitome of Hyperbole.

Let’s Get Small is a far superior set from Steve Martin than Wild and Crazy Guy, IMO. The latter is made up of more callbacks to his SNL characters and leans too hard into recurring bits.

...probably because Disney doesn’t employ anyone who worked at Marvel when that happened, and thus has no institutional knowledge of the results of such narrative excess.

The problem the MCU has is that it can never have an ending, because it’s the studio’s moneymaker.

His 2002 arrest and registration as a sex offender as part of the Jeffrey Jones child porn bust did more damage to his rep than the wanking incident, IMO. I think that that case was overblown (he had a bunch of vintage homosexual erotica and nobody was ever going to see that as anything but child porn and obscenity)…

Simuliuted?

Usually I don’t get too worked up about listicles, but the absence of Malcolm X from this list is criminal.

The thing is, they are inordinately capable of writing amazing hooks, and if you took their stuff out of its context, it’s all very memorable and earworm-y. But my goodness, in context, it’s like frosted turds.

It ended up that way, but for most of the movie he was the Evil Lord Business.

I’m definitely going to see this movie and I’m pretty positive I’m going to like it.

I’m starting to wonder if everything Pasek and Paul are involved in curdles so hard so quickly.

Today’s Hollywood execs: “See? It worked for Blade Runner!”

Clarke has a good explainer in his forewords to the 20XX series of books about the process. He and Kubrick basically messengered each other drafts and concepts during the making of 2001 (Clarke was living in Sri Lanka) and changes got made in the film (i.e. switching the final encounter with the Monolith to Jupiter…

As soon as I saw that the person taking the photo during the performance was an “influencer,” I didn’t need to see anything more - although the excuse that there “wasn’t good lighting” before the show would be frickin’ hilarious if it wasn’t delivered with such blithe sincerity.