No fucking law firm on earth agrees to the photo shoot without knowing what the article is about.

For me, Ebert overrated sci-fi films and preachy liberal stuff, and underrated films pitched to younger audiences (he really missed the ball on Wet Hot American Summer), but as long as you knew his biases you could adjust to your own accordingly. What a loss for us.

Everyone here should read PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION, Mark Harris' fantastic book on the five Oscar-nominated films that year (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and Doctor Doolittle) and what it meant for Hollywood.

As Mike Nichols later recounted, "My unconscious was making this movie. It took me years before I got what I had been doing all along — that I had been turning Benjamin into a Jew. I didn't get it until I saw this hilarious issue of MAD magazine after the movie came out, in which the caricature of Dustin says to the…

You can't play creepier than Jeremy Irons' Claus von Bulow, though.

Ron Silver had such the definitive Dershowitz in REVERSAL OF FORTUNE that I had trouble watching Shrug's whinier take on him tonight.

You can choose not to be sworn in, leaving the office vacant. In Philadelphia, that'd result in the local judges naming a replacement DA.

I want to believe that tonight's Marissa showcase is a sign that each remaining episode will call back one beloved tertiary character before the end — Elsbeth next week — and if I'm right, we may just get Judge Ana Gasteyer again. In my opinion.

IIRC, it's the opposite - between the fake traffic jam and the rigged machines to help a downballot candidate, Alicia benefited from Peter's (and the state party's) chicanery.

The only one I want - and I'm not looking at the link to see if it's there - is the spinoff law firm with Carrie Preston, Martha Plimpton, and Mamie Gummer, with the Daddy Detective hanging around.

It's the Tim Meadows bit that references [a Morgan Freeman movie] which had me rolling.

Once you realize that Anchorman is absurdist, it's a lot easier to enjoy. And Walk Hard is fantastic. "Dewey, get out of here. You don't want no part of this shit."

It's the first movie I saw in a theater after 9/11. Man, I needed that level of silliness.

Visiting the gravesite is probably not true, though they intended to go there.

It was a bit much of a show-don't-tell moment; Travolta's performance is good enough that the underlining wasn't needed.

Was there hot sauce in his bag?

Gooding won for what's predominately a comic performance, and so it's not like Great Actor roles were being offered to him.

I don't if it's rage, or just exasperation at the position he's been put in in making these transitions.

In 1991, they didn't air the Super Bowl halftime show, instead broadcasting a news update on the just-begun Gulf War. (It was available to the affiliates for tape-delay.)

Kudos to Schwimmer: made me sympathetic to a Kardashian.