Ah, nothing like a dismissive canned quip to raise the level of interweb discourse.  Or were you the first person to coin the phrase?  If so, bravo sir.

I certainly do hate the Top 40 realm, but not because it's popular, but because I think it's mostly lousy music created by a lousy, greed and marketing addled system. But although the music business has always had some seriously shady corners, there was once a time when the most popular artists also tended to be…

I have to wonder if being central to the so-called Super Bowl "Nipple-gate" scandal with Janet Jackson might have soured him on the whole pop ordeal. I have to say it reinforced a very negative impression of him as a celeb that was unbroken until seeing him repeatedly score on SNL.

I completely agree, his music is utterly featherweight and forgettable - except for Dick in a Box and Mother Lovers.  And I have to say it has been really nice NOT hearing anyone tell me, "Oh, he's really talented, I know you don't like Top 40, but he's  one of the good ones."  NO, he is totally not one of the good…

Didn't Lennon's John Sinclair really help get a family man out of jail where he would otherwise have wasted away on some ridiculous pot possession charge?

IMO Ebert has been a hack ever since he became a Disney shill because At the Movies was a Buena Vista property. I respect his earlier stuff and Sneak Previews had a huge impact on me, but after a certain point I find him an insufferable blowhard. Seriously, I even try to be open and sample a review now and then, but…

Yeah maybe, but a cheesy and phony-as-all- fuck Zion that looks an Ewok cave taken over by an MTV hardbody dance show wasn't what anybody needed or wanted. Thats only one sequence of several that are unforgivably padded.

I actually almost LOL'd on that, and I rarely LOL at anything on the internet when I'm alone.  (*insert* porn joke here.)

Brian Doyle is probably too old, bearded and craggy looking for anything
but a peripheral character potentially inspired by Willie Nelson, 
(which strikes me as a pretty good idea actually,) but maybe they could
get the Murray brother who plays Freddy Rumsen on Mad Men for a role. 
That show has made him a very…

Ponette is a masterpiece of subjective point-of-view film making that has to be seen.  The AVC review convinced me to catch it in the theater, and to drag along a friend who, although leery, became a convert to AVC also.  Thanks to our hosts for directing us to great films like this would might never see otherwise!

I don't think I even knew George Clooney was involved.  I don't know of him being a particular music fan so I can't imagine.  You sure it wasn't "George Cloonie."  Cause that guy was all over TNT.

The thing is, I'd be very surprised if I were the only one to suggest that title at a network that large, with creative development and promotions departments (I was in the latter.)   However I was known for specializing in music and Elvis-related projects (prior to the We Know Drama days when we still ran Elvis…

I worked at TNT when this show was in the works, and it was developed with the idea Lee would be a flat out Elvis impersonator who was also a cop.  The 11th hour switch to him being just a blues/rock fan was due to the surprisingly unanticipated fact that publishing rights to perform Elvis songs were going to cost a…

Still, the answer to casting Macca is on the AVC home page right now: Adam Scott.  He's a dead ringer.

Maybe Bale could play Lennon and they could condense the history timeline a little by  having him do some primal screaming. 

Yeah, nice write up Noel, well picked subject.  I was an adolescent when this show hit, and gravitated to it for the "adult" feel, and also because my Dad, a big Normal Lear show fan, loved the show, particularly for Richard Mulligan's Burt, and the WTF zaniness of "Bob," the first and last time ventriloquism would be…

The supporting actresses are pretty hot, IMO.  Jimmy's girlfriend is cute, Burt's would-be affair is very MILFy, and Corrine was a tall, stacked bombshell for any man's era.  Having normal looking people around makes hotness hotter, IMO.  I'm sick of modern  store catalog casting, hate it.  (the new review for The…

sacred is probably the proper word, not sacrosanct.  There I go trying to sound smart again.

Definitely offensive, making satires out of one of the most sacrosanct subjects around.  In the words of my source, a liberal and loose individual, "people are going to be fucking pissed, and you know what, they should be." 

The last chance anyone ever had to make a bug budget effects film with little cgi was Indy 4, which reportedly was how Spielberg wanted to go before digital pimp George Lucas convinced him to whore out the entire franchise. Now it will probably never happen.