Parkinsons is a fairly common disease, so I doubt it.

"I feel confident that for every Maltese Falcon or Sweet Smell of Success,
there was a poor Noir also-ran (based similarly on, respectively, a
pulp book or actual events) that noöne remembers and so we paint
ourselves a pretty picture of old-time cinema." Look up "Now in the public domain". You see these in cheap…

The terms "Poverty Row" and "now in the public domain" come to mind, in case we forget that Hollywood has always put out a lot of crap.

I always preferred Rob Roy, which came out slightly earlier than Braveheart. Watched them again over the past year, and the more small-scale story-telling of Rob Roy has held up much better. If anything, the rape scene is even more terrifying today than it was 20 years ago.

Until Cars II, my bet is that John Ratzenberger had the next highest batting average. A Bridge Too Far, Gandhi, Empire Strikes Back, Superman I and II, Cheers, every Pixar movie…who's this guy's agent?

I'm pretty sure if he was given the choice between only appearing in excellent films but dying of cancer, versus acting in a few stinkers here and there but living as long as Pacino, he would have probably taken the latter option.

I just noticed… anyone else see a striking resemblance between John Wojtowicz and Steve Carrel? At least, in the picture included above.

If there's one Al Pacino-John Cazale movie that needs to be referenced more often in pop culture, it's Dog Day Afternoon. Great movie.

"I'm sorry, but even the Danish version dragged on FOREVER in Season 1". As much as I loved the original (I could barely watch the US version and quickly gave up on it. Sara Lindin is no Sara Lund!), you are correct. Series 1 dragged on for about 5 more episodes than it needed to. Series 2 and 3 were much more…

Joe vs. the Volcano- didn't the island have some weird Polynesian-Jewish cultural fusion? If so, that's the only thing I remember about the movie, but I recall that one portion being quite funny.

ET definately wasn't a great game. But compared to a lot of the absoulte crap that was available for the 2600, I didn't think it was that bad. Maybe if you bought it right off the bat at full price with all the hype, yeah, I'm sure you were disappointed. We bought our copy out of discount bin about a year later for…

At least two of them were the arcade versions of Pole Position and the original Star Wars game. I think I may have seen Asteroids in there as well.

Wouldn't several million members in the 1920s disqualify the KKK as a "secret society"? At least, that particular iteration.

Unlike the Star Wars stuff, almost all the Sherlock Holmes stories that you're likely to see in a bookstore were wirrten by the same guy, Arthur Conan Doyle. And there really isn't an overarching story to the cannon, it's mostly just individual cases that stand on their own. Just go with any of the various complete…

Some of us (several hundred million of us, to be more precise) actually live in the real EU, and we're accustomed to hearing "EU" daily referring to only one thing.

As someone who only casually enjoys the movies (the prequels, much less so), can I make a suggestion to the more involved fan community? That calling the Expanded Universe the "EU" is very confusing, because this abbreviation is already in common parlance for a very large, well known, and crucially, non-imaginary…

I blame American Idol. When you only reward one style of singing, this is the result.

Most of Africa south of the Sahara is Christian. And the main country this was aimed at, Ethiopia, has been Orthodox Christian since the 4th century.

The magic of Botox? I wouldn't necessarily say he looks "better", but compare the "then and now" pictures of Kenny Rogers.

I had an older brother who controlled the TV and radio dials in our house and in the car… you were lucky, I couldn't possibly escape it.