Agreed.  Ben Kingsley as Feste was amazing.  Maybe my favourite Shakespeare play, and definitely my favourite Shakespeare movie.

Yes, Cold Comfort Farm.  But everything about that film is adorable, even Ian McKellen and his Ford van.

Not only were Thompson-Branagh great together, and Keaton a surprisingly good Dogberry and Denzel Washington at his most Denzelly, it also had Kate Beckinsale at her second-most adorable.  So, I agree: I'd rather have seen him try As You Like It or something.

[Leopold Bloom throws full mug of beer at the Citizen's face.  When the Citizen lifts his hands to block it, Bloom spins into a slow motion roundhouse kick that knocks the Citzen off his stool and eight feet through the air, bouncing off the side of the pool table like a rag doll]

Not being James Joyce is a virtue in a writer.  Dumas's a motherfucking joy.

Enh, I didn't mind her.  She's never annoyed me particularly, I think of her as more of a non-entity, a long-mouthed cipher — which is fatal in a central role, but harmless in a supporting one.

Now, can you really say that Kevin Bacon "stole" those Footloose moves?  Isn't that like saying Michael Jordan stole some of his Chicago Bulls moves for Space Jam?

I got three: Pret-a-Porter, Everyone Says I Love You, and Oceans Eleven.  All flawed-but-enjoyable big ensemble films by legendary directors, in which she has fairly small parts and manages not to ruin shit.

No, the rules state that it belongs to the person who found it unless they voluntarily relinquish it.

I suspect with Matt last season, however many hundreds of hours of footage they had, all of them featured him talking about Friend Jesus.

Last season worked (for me) because I love Boston Rob.  But I can easily see how he would rub others the wrong way, and how the hero-edit and grossly imbalanced screen-time he got would have made the season unbearable to watch (like I found Little Russell's first season unbearable).

Oh come on, all major western religions' histories are high in massacre-related by-products, it's just one of those things.

That's factually incorrect (the second sentence).  From wikipedia: "The Satanic Verses was published by Viking Penguin on September 26, 1988.[9] Upon its publication the book garnered considerable critical acclaim in the author's home, the United Kingdom. On November 8, 1988 it received the Whitbread Award for novel…

Good call on West.  I'm surprised no one has tried doing a new film version of Day of the Locust, if only for the perverse joy of ending a movie with Homer Simpson curb-stomping a child to death.

I still contend that they're fools, though I get that thinking.  If he wasn't known to have the HII, that'd be different.

Depending on how things shake out, he has great second- or third- banana potential.  No one's going to be afraid of him stealing votes at FTC, but he's not a toxic association the way Russell was for Parvati; and he's so palpably grateful just to be there that he's going to be wholly loyal to anyone who offers to take…

I'm a little surprised at the more-or-less general cooling on Cochran.  I thought he was hilarious at tribal, I'm liking him more than ever.

Exactly.  They're fools for not realizing this.  Now that Elyse is gone, the opportunity to blindside Ozzy out of his HII is basically gone.  The fools, the fools…

Best "hard-boiled detective" writers, in order:

yes I said Hitler yes