not as dumb as that time he rehearsed all day for the ass-to-ass scene in Requiem, then found out he wasn't actually in the scene.

zucker abrams zucker comedies
especially Police Squad. that show had the jokes and site gags so densely layered that it is impossible to catch everything the first time. i also gained further appreciation for it once i had seen some of the old cop shows Police Squad was spoofing, so i got a lot more of the references…

yeah studios will always film TV shows in LA County if they can get away with it. thats where most of the "talent" lives, and for that and many other reasons it costs less than long term location shooting. San Diego looks so much like parts of the LA area that it really wouldn't make sense to drive 2 1/2 hours south…

hey don't knock Oingo Boingo too much. back when i was 12, 'Nothing to Fear' was my gateway to the forbidden world of 80's alternative/postpunk/newwave. that album blew my young mind and changed my life much like Nevermind did for Steve Hyden's generation 10 years later. (Feel free to knock the later era of Oingo…

i always thought of TMBG as the folkier successor to more eclectic acts such as Oingo Boingo, Devo, early B52's, Talking Heads, or even The Dead Milkmen. they all fit in the category of bands with lots of campy songs with funny/silly lyrics. Seriously, listen to Oingo Boingo's vocal-driven first album 'Only a Lad'.…

there's at least one dog in every Terriers episode so far, but they aren't usually part of the main storylines. kinda like the pet ocelot in Honey West, or the baby in I Love Lucy, just there to add some background color.

There were quite a number of great female-led rock bands in the late-80's - early 90's, I think more so than in recent years. And not just the bands with female lead singers (though there were plenty of those too), but bands where the females wrote the songs and played the guitars (even LEAD guitar, which i found very…

more Breeders love here. Pod was a huge part of my soundtrack in 1990, and beyond, and really influenced my musical tastes from then forward, much more so than any Pixies album ever did. i love Last Splash too but its grungy mid-90's Nirvana-style production makes it sound very much like a product of its time. not…

Occasional visits to a good gentleman's club* is worthy substitute for prostitutes. even though there's no actual sex (officially), a good lapdance sure FEELS like getting laid, minus all the messy bodily fluids getting splashed around. Also the girls at the strip clubs tend to be younger and better looking than your…

i don't get all the Mad Men love either. i keep trying to watch it but it just seems too much like some crap old primetime drama like Dallas but set in the 60's instead of the 80's.

i had the misfortune of working in a place with a jukebox in the late 90's. the owner wasn't hip at all so the jukebox was stocked with a mix of older cd's and some obscure newer stuff obviously purchased from the bargain bin that nobody would ever pay money to hear. the Paula Abdul and early Mariah Carey cd's were…

"show's writers it"

if i were one of the show's writers it, i'd play it out so it is a character we haven't been introduced to yet, but will meet sometime within the next few episodes, then keep the mystery hanging until the half season point, dropping clues here and there before finally getting to the big reveal.

i found Bean 2 to be excruciating to watch, except for one good scene in the middle. and i'm a huge Rowan Atkinson fan. (i own -and love- The Complete Bean DVD set). but that movie just didn't work for me. That kid in it was too annoying and ruined every scene he was in. The first Bean movie was iffy, not nearly as…

tokyo a happening city in 1927? didn't it get almost destroyed in a massive earthquake just a few years prior? i guess you will need those martial arts skills if you are going to survive in a post-apocalyptic kind of cityscape.

there's some huge holes in 20th century media culture which weren't preserved that really should've been. For instance in the past 50 years very little news footage and broadcasts were saved, particularly on the local level, and the few that were are only crappy tape copies, not original broadcast quality.

i thought of doing that too (i'd so love to hook up with some of the college girls i rejected back then because i was an idiot), but in this time travel scenario you'd be your current age self, not your college age self, so chances are the girls you turned down won't be quite as interested in you the second time…

i always thought of Knight Rider as an update of the Herbie concept.

anyway the best things in life are gimmicks. and as long as there are pretty ladies with perky boobs, there will be a demand for movies in 3D.

3D is a gimmick, but so are movie theaters in general. why would anyone want to go to the theater when you can stay home and watch equally good movies on the TV for nearly free?