Kind of odd that there's no reference to the political anxiety during which Donnie Darko was originally released. I saw it in some little theatre in New York a couple of months after September 11th, and a week or so after the Rockaway Beach plane crash, during which one of the plane's engines fell on a gas station,…

Harrison Ford can land his plane in my backyard any time he wants.

If it's Neil Cicirega's Mouth Moods, I may actually watch.

That's a great way of putting it. Plus, I can think of plenty of movies nowadays that have meticulous world building but forget to actually tell a story. I'd rather Beetlejuice's weirdness any day.

I actually didn't mind it. It was diverting enough.

She also stopped making decent movies for about a decade, so there's that.

And that year is now the year I started college.

They make for a good comparison, because they were both about artists whose art was terrible but whose story was interesting.

I love the fact that they did an acapella version of The Banana Boat Song at his funeral.

Nice f**kin photos!

Ah, 1988-1994. Those are the years I think of as 'Peak Winona'.

Geez, what a horrifying thought.

For some reason it's here, on an obscure Chinese YouTube knockoff.

He was actually kind of anodyne and square, from what I understand. I don't think any episodes survive - he died a year or so ago and I don't think they had much footage in the tributes.

Holy crap. I think children were easily entertained in 1968. An hour of that?

That oughta hold the little SOBs.

Is it already April Fool's Day on the East Coast?

Geez, was that really almost twenty years ago?

I don't believe Vincente Minnelli ever came out of the closet. But he was widely considered either gay or bisexual.

Nothing involving the B-52s can earn a C! Nothing!