A brilliant, brilliant series
Look at the whole show as a story about male insecurity that happens to be set in the late night tv world.

The Zevon episode, which is one of the top 3-5 of the show, period. French Inhaler, John Ritter, Gene Siskel — yeah, it's a cursed episode.

I'm reading it right now …
… and, yeah, it's just not cohering for me yet. And, frankly, once you've read THE POWER BROKER — and for me that was about twenty years ago — anything else on Robert Moses is going to feel flimsy.

Lea Michele as Elphaba
And a blonde Anne Hathaway as Galinda. Make it happen.

Can't blame her. EXILE has sold as many copies in 17 years as Susan Boyle's debut album did in a week.

No, EXILE is all that and then some; it just raises the question of "true authorship" and how much of the album's greatness is attributable to Phair versus Brad Wood and others.

"… and that's why darkies were born."
It's the one line in DUCK SOUP which makes me cringe, even though I get that it's a reference to a popular song of the era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

The Time Has Come
A fact's a fact.
It belongs to them
Let's give it back.

Crappity Crap
David Archuletta and His Dead, Dead Eyes is the closest this show has come in nine seasons towards identifying a talented male eighteen-or-younger — and he was soulless. Girls, they've been okay — Paris Bennett, Diana DeGarmo, Allison Iraheta off the top of my head.

So, in other words …
… this movie is worse than the one in which the German dude stitched peoples' mouths to other peoples' anuses. Wow.

People Won't Believe It All Happened
I just remember that trance-inducing Bronco chase, the suicide note, the reporters not realizing where he was headed, and just assuming that Simpson was going to kill himself on tv once he got to his home. (I'm from Philadelphia; I saw the Budd Dwyer thing live.)

Liam Neeson
What's the last film before this one in which his character is shown smiling as opposed to brooding and sulking the whole time? Do we have to go back to SATISFACTION with Justine Bateman and Julia Roberts?

It's not a true awards show; it's an excuse to allow massive promotion of all summer films to teenagers.

Three Oscar Acting Noms 1990-2000. Now this.
I'm not so sure that the CoS, on a net basis, has helped his career.

Since "Goodnight Saigon" for Hammond …
… every other season-closing episode has had too high a standard to reach. Other than the time travel infomercial, this was a thoroughly forgettable episode, and it's time to figure out who gots-to-go before 2010-11 starts.

[Chung Chung]
Law and Order cannot go off the air until they bring back Michael Moriarty to compete with Sam Waterston in a scene-eating contest.

I'd like to see the casting scene in which the one woman is told that she gets to play the middle section.

Danza
We here in Philadelphia remain stunned that the Danza project isn't being titled YO, TEACH!.

When is New Jack Swing night?
Songs of the British New Wave? The Music of Michael McDonald?

I wouldn't have known had they not said. I was never entirely sure if she was in on her own joke, even at the end, and if there's one thing this season was missing (other than depth of talent) it was that Tatiana/Norman Mitchell/Sanjaya fringe of delusional-but-interesting folks.