yeah Lloyd had the good luck of buying a shit-ton of real estate in the Beverly Hills area during the 20's and 30's when it was relatively cheap, so by the 1950's he was one of the wealthiest Hollywood stars, unlike Buster Keaton who was essentially broke by then and had to keep working until he was old.

yet another reason to love Harold Lloyd. HUGE perv.

if i had his financing, i'd skip the blow and double up on the hookers.

AMC did show lots of old westerns back in the day (i'm talking late 80's), but i distinctly remember quite a bit of non-western classic films, especially more family-oriented stuff like Shirley Temple movies, the (awful, IMO) Blondie movie series, Abbott & Costello movies, the and lots of random Fox films starring…

damn i missed that! so i guess TCM does have the rights to those now. i have to start checking their monthly movie schedule more religiously.

oh, another glaring omission from the TCM lineup - the Hal Roach Studios shorts from the 1930's. They do show Laurel and Hardy shorts occasionally, but they never show the great Thelma Todd/ Patsy Kelly shorts of the same era, or pre-MGM Our Gang/Little Rascals (AKA when it was funny), or 'The Boyfriends' series.…

i love TCM. my only problem with it is, although it pretends to offer a complete picture of film history, the TCM movie selection mostly consists of WB, MGM, and RKO films, and leaves out a significant amount of great films from studios such as Fox Films/ 20th Century Fox, Monogram, Paramount (although that's finally…

i think Leno's transition from mainstream comedian to one of the world's foremost experts on classic cars, particularly super-geeky automotive sub-genres such as WW1-era steam-powered cars, is a far more drastic transition. Though it would've been far more dramatic (and classy) if he'd permanently retired from…

for a straight guy there's no such thing as a free BJ. it may be free at first but you will pay for it in the long run when she coaxes you into buying her lots of crap, or (if you are a total sucker) marrying her and giving her some babies. ask any guy you see at a Walmart pushing a crying baby in a stroller and…

LOL yeah just doing my part to keep that obscure AVClub comment board in-joke from 2 or 3 years ago alive. i was there when it first happened, and it was hi-larious. Never forget.

the problem with "shoegaze" is it lumps together a bunch of early 90's British bands that had nothing in common other than the vocals on their records tended to be buried under layers of loud guitar noise. But like grunge, that was more a production gimmick than an actual music style. Ride may have come off a bit…

i don't quite remember, probably some old new wave bands which i was into at the time for some reason. (The reason being 1987 was a shitty time for mainstream music and even then i knew the older stuff was better, and i also wanted to be different than my metal-loving classmates). but i do remember much cruising…

don't feel too bad. over the years i've heard portions of most of their albums and watched a bunch of Radiohead videos, enjoying a few songs there and there, at times trying really hard to get into them because they are musically interesting and all the cool people seem to like them, but in the end they just don't…

actually 90's America never really caught Oasis fever despite them being heavily hyped for awhile there. They had that one big album, then quickly disappeared from radio/mtv. In the long run America decided it would rather listen to other, less prickish British rock bands such as Blur, Radiohead and umm, Bush.

yeah the songwriting was consistently great on the first album, compared to the hit-and-miss recent album. I think my disappointment with it was purely due to my general dislike of the production style, after years of being accustomed to hearing the EP versions. I'd umagine those early EP's would be really hard to…

true story: i was working in a multiplex in the early 90's when Diggstown came out. At a certain pivotal moment in every screening, you'd hear a sudden eruption of loud cheers and applause coming from inside the theater. in the several years working in a movie theater, that was the only movie i can recall that got…

Bjork has way too many fans to be called a one-man cult.

'Metal Mickey' is the single greatest song to come out of the 90's Britpop scene

i actually prefer their self-released ep's that predated 'Are You thinking What I'm Thinking' by a few years. Those ep's have most of the same songs but with a cleaner, more indie-sounding production. I felt the album was overproduced in a bad way, like the producer was trying too hard to make the band alt-rock…

IMO Jurassic Park 2 is one of the awfulest sequels of all time, so Jurassic Park 3 can't help but be good in comparison.