Being over any drug scenes sounds like a ridiculous stance to take. Does that go for the inebriated as well? Will you never watch a film noir for the rest of your life? What about trippy dream sequences, also passé? Man, get over yourself.

A thing like that.

It's my favorite of the season.
Ken's tap dance, certainly enhanced in Don's perception, was awesome. Speaking of Cosgrove, AVC needs to stop overlooking that he is a relatively well adjusted character. Secure in himself, not a manipulator, has a healthy creative outlet writing fiction (defying Cooper's orders,…

But that could also be the very bottom a narcissist like him needs to hit to make a substantial change.

Totally agree.

But your step mom being a near-Madame is very different from having a more caring mother figure also take your virginity when you are underage. I don't think the woman even realized it was so wrong, but that fucks a person up.

cloned message glitch redacted. Disquss is a hot mess on iPad.

Laziness, yes, creative bankruptcy also, and let's not forget the cheeseball borrowed interest of shamelessly feeding off the Jaws phenomenon, including a soundtrack aping the John Williams theme, which is especially ridiculous depicting a world some 15 to 20 years before Jaws. Happy Days was shit well before that…

It's definitely never as good to us at home as to the studio audience.  This past week the crowd was like "They're doing The Californians again! The Lawrence Welk bit again! And Target Lady!  Every old sketch from the Kristen Wiig days!"  I love Wiig but it was like they were deliberately doing every sketch a normally…

I agree with mjlowe.  Fallon is quick on his feet and the interviews are relaxing to watch.  He's not a confrontational or especially probing interviewer, but Johnny Carson was never either of those things either, just a laid back guy who gave the guest room to be themselves, and was there with the one-liners when the…

For now, at least.  I don't see him pulling Late Night off.  He's an okay writer but he's got no cache as a performer.  He's got 2 punchline deliveries: shouting cheerily, and trailing off sheepishly.  I can't even imagine him doing standup.  Update is an easy gig performance wise because the audience is hepped up…

I wanted to like this season, I really did, and it started out okay until the wretched Inspector Spacetime episode.  Props to the new creators for clearly trying to Harmon-ize (heh) the new season, but it just rang more and more hollow as it went.  I never used to turn them off in the middle if I had other things to…

I think we are talking about the same version, Classics covers the same era as The Bang Years.  It should be the same version as on Double Gold vinyl and the CD Box In My Lifetime.   I don't have the Classics CD, and it's possible there was an issue of that with an alternate mix, but that seems unlikely.

Wonder Showzen rules.  I thought the same thing.

That's a shame to hear he was a dick.  I know a woman who worked in a New York concert hall who said the nicest celeb she ever encountered personally was George Carlin; apparently he left the bitter attitude on onstage and was great to all the "little people."

Actually, as I recall it, the story was that Diamond visited a Native American reservation where the men outnumbered the women to a great degree.  The poor men who could not attract a woman would get drunk on the weekends on the local favorite drink, a "crackin' " rose' (rhymes with "no say") wine, and refer to it as…

Hate to be a naysayer, but the intro & repeating organ lick actually is in Neil's version, as heard on The Bang Years and Double Gold.   Could it be you have heard a demo version he made?  It makes sense his studio master would have it even if he didn't write the hooky figure, because his recording career started…

Also hilarious is the "journeyman" montage, in which Neil drops out of the fame game, man, and hits the road to pick up solo gigs here and there, going wherever the wind blows him, baby.  He grows a soulful looking beard, to symbolize his spiritual growth inside, and the return to his more natural, less polished…

I do like that cover of Red Rubber, which fits nicely with his covers of Gary US Bond's New Orleans, and of Monday, Monday (both of which appeared on Double Gold.)   However, I would gladly trade Hanky Panky (which is okay) and La Bamba (silly and disposable) for the inclusion of Crooked Street and Shot Down, which…

Agreed, it's a surprisingly intimate performance and the arrangement is better than the original which has a somewhat awkward use of horns.  Red Red Wine is pretty divine here as well, and the companion live LP Love at the Greek has a live version of Lady Oh which IMO is miles better than the Robbie Roberston-produced…