The Ballad Of The Flexible Bullet! Damn, I have not read that in years — my copy of Skeleton Crew fell apart about halfway through some time ago so I haven't reread those stories the way I have with other King stuff. But yeah, the little guy is a Fornit and he's essentially a cobbler's elf. Very creepy story.

His eyes and that vacant grin, and then you notice that the pudgy doughboy body is actually a very large, potentially destructive body that now has a diseased mind, and oh shit. D'Onfrio's physical performance in Full Metal Jacket easily tops Nicholson's in The Shining for madness.

Sam Elliott:your fine scotch of choice::Dennis Leary:Red Bull and vodka

I'm wondering if they had this concept ready to go for whoever won and just inserted author-specific stuff into the piece. Also, someone winning a prize for being an exceptional crafter of language being a linguistic moron is funny.

"The Nobel cements her reputation as the most highly-lauded Canadian author of the past century."

Wow, a series based on Alice Munro stories? Cinemax really is trying to move away from its softcore image.

Does that mean that somewhere plays a sexy trombone?

Whither the Spice Channel?

@avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus Ooh, good point. Mann knows how to film conversations/anecdotes (the Miles Davis story in Collateral comes to mind), I would totally watch a rambling Elliot closing down the bar.

Yes! At some point, ARMORED FUCKING POLAR BEARS will be the standard description and all other material describing the books/movie will seem weird and outdated, like 18th century handwriting where "s" looks like "f."

For some reason I'm assuming Elliott pronounces it with a long "a" in the first syllable.

"Sam Elliot, we need you to help out in this heist!"
"Well, it ain't how I prefer to earn my living. But I'll do it."
*Heist goes off perfectly in ten minutes due to Elliot participation*
"Well, guess that's that."

*drawls* "Something is happening here, and you don't know what it is" *sneers* "Do you, Mr. Jones?"

I'll stick up for Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces, which is half punk, half Situationism and half intelligible, as a good book examining punk and its motivations.

Also in corrections — I think the "can enjoy" in the final Jimmy Stewart anecdote should be "can't enjoy."

"Horseman" is an innately badass word, maybe now more than in previous times.

You presume the industry press reads books. The Pullman quote was definitely a big deal, although I think his athiesm would've come out and been a "problem" regardless.

Thank you for using the official AV Club Style description for ARMORED FUCKING POLAR BEARS

I'm a big John Doe fan and he is the perfect sleazy lowlife in the movie.

Every time I watch Road House I get pissed at Swayze in Elliott's final scene. "You stay here, when I get back we're blowing this town." YOU ARE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL! WHERE YOUR BADLY BEATEN FRIEND COULD PERHAPS FIND SOME MEDICAL TREATMENT! Yeah, it sets up the final awesome rampage, but god dammit, this could have…