Heh, that's exactly how I imagined him as well! Like Pellaeon, I mean, not kicking puppies. I'm not sure why I pictured him as such; probably the wearied look in his eyes.

That's right! "Lost Tyree, lost Hutch!"

I think it was Red Leader who said "Stay on target!" to one of the Y-Wing pilots.

Sorry!

That's impossible, even for a computer!

I always liked Admiral Piett, because Kenneth Colley played him with just the right mixture of arrogance and scared-shitless-ness. I even convinced myself that he somehow survived that A-Wing flying into his command bridge! Poor Piett.

In the recent Jim Henson biography, I read something pretty interesting. Henson himself was originally approached to play Yoda, but he couldn't fit it into his schedule, so Oz got the gig instead. As amazing as a Henson Yoda might have been, getting Oz was probably for the best, since he saw himself as much more of a…

I'm starting law school in the fall, so I'm devoting the next several months to tackling as many books as I can, since I know my pleasure-reading will plummet. I'm also enjoying the sun and outdoors while I still can.

Two of my closest friends hate the Muppets as well, not because they don't like the humor or anything like that, but because the puppets themselves, the animated bits of felt, freak them out. Madness!

I like Always. It's schmaltzy as all hell, yeah, but I think the performances salvage it.

You're not a fan of Vaseline smudges masquerading as UFOs?

Right, "adolescent T-rex" is more accurate.

Yeah, Gennaro's all right in the book. A lot of his film characterization is derived from another guy in the novel, a PR man named Ed Regis if memory serves, who gets hilariously eaten by a baby T-Rex.

While you were gone, the Trotters held a news conference to announce that I was a "jive sucker."

Ha! That was actually an unintentional reference, though I should have seen it. "Apoplexy" is one of those classic ailments, like the grippe, that I'm always somewhat amused to read about.

Awww :(

Have you seen Nixon? That's my pick for Best Conventional Biopic, just because it's so histrionic and baroque.

I think he certainly believed some of it. During the 1950s and 60s, when Reagan became the pitchman for GE and host of General Electric Theater, he came under the influence of an executive named Lemuel Boulware, who tutored Reagan in the ways of neoliberal economics and small government. Though Reagan may have been…

Former Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) introduced legislation that would replace FDR with Reagan on the dime. The thought of that happening makes me APOPLECTIC.

HEH, keep 'em coming, Jean-Luc.