Does anyone know where
I can find the new episode online? Variety has the whole episode, but the censor the shit of it, and it just doesn't seem right in the wake of George Carlin's death.

That was really only one or two lines, although yes, he did steal that scene.

That's really a shame. I had a feeling we'd have been hearing a lot from him with Maher's Religulous coming out.

Alec Baldwin
I still consider that scene to be Baldwin's best performance in any of his films. Usually when theater gets adapted into film, I cringe at some of the changes, which often includes dumbing down the script with exposition like this scene, but Baldwin does that motivational-speaker-on-steroids routine…

I'm really ambivalent about the film, honestly. I know its brilliant on many levels, but its tough not to see the film as an excuse for naming names, a response to The Crucible (miler responding to OTW with A View from the Bridge). But when I think about it more, it becomes apparent that its much more. Mainly, its a…

You're right, I just haven't seen the Bull for a good year, and it didn't stick out for me in ways like it did in Mean Streets or Cape Fear, and maybe a little bit in The Last Temptation of Chris.
Remember, Chris died for your sins,

Sadomasocism and Religious Guilt
I think La Motta is remarkable not only because of the sadistic way he treats those around him, but also by a sense of masochism and guilt. While religion isn't an explicit theme in this film, its clearly a theme seen throughout Scorcese's work, and here that Catholic guilt seems to…

Is On The Waterfront a possible future BLTN? It's definetly required viewing.

Totally agree
This is the first of the anthology that I watched (I'm deciding whether or not to watch based on directors) and I was very disappointed. I mean, I knew there'd be some twist at the end and some random creepyness in between, but you're right about the lack of satisfaction.

I think its the low standards. I mean, there were really no jokes. It was all the same schtick we've been getting from sub-Bruce Valanche award show hacks for years. Compare her to a Jon Stewart or a Steve Martin and its a real disappointment. I just don't think that the type of humor she excels in fits the award show…

Whoopi Goldberg
was the worst part of the night… plus Young Frankenstein.

I dunno, I was worried about the possible diva element here, since Bernadette Peters was pretty awful in her Gypsy role a few years back (and after she lost, she phoned it in horribly), but LaPone seemeed to have been playing the character honestly rather than for the rafters. But that's just me.

I love the Tony Awards
but I gotta say, this was a boring year for Broadway. In the Heights was kind of interesting and Sunday in the Park With George was Sondheim and brilliant of course (although I would have liked to have seen a little more of it), but Crybaby looked blah for a John Waters adaptation, Xanadu…

Smug Satisfaction
Did they cast pre-The Nines Ryan Reynolds as the Ninja? Gaiden? or the 2?

I'd much rather ignore it.

Not a lot of pickets.
A good number of these don't seem to be picketed, but are a small number of leaders looing to make headlines simply sending out a number of press releases to make names for themselves.

I see piss coming, I move. She sees piss coming, she stays.
Why should I miss out on the nex R Kelly album, just for that?

Well there's a lot to it that I didn't feel like torturing people with. The actual time I spent there was pretty awful.

One of the good ones.
This is sad indeed. I grew up watching him on NBC, and in all the time I've seen him on the air, he never seemed to fall into the trap of becoming another blowhard pundit. What he said had the voice of a journalist, not a talking head. RIP.

Instead of watching this movie,
I'll just put on some reruns of Friday Night Lights.