Do not forget Bowfinger in your Steve Martin exploration, it might have been released at a time when both he and Eddie Murphy were hard to take seriosuly, but it is a great movie.

Regarding Lynch, in spite of the rep, INLAND EMPIRE is great, it is close to impenetrable, but is an amazing trip, one of the best experiences I've had in a cinema.

Music (pop)

I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.

I don't expect it would involve a lot more people than we've seen, but I'd like to see a bit about the practical ramifications of the involvement of the company, or how they've set up their little corner within it.
The shadowy organisation at the root of the company would be disappointing, and a bit of a stretch.

It's about 90 minutes, from the time when Warhol was active (if I liked his stuff, I would say at his peak), for a budget that can't have been much higher; good enough?

There was a modern adaptation of Balzac in France about a dozen years ago, a four parts mini-series called Rastignac et les Ambitieux, it was quite good. But there definitely was a great hullaballoo about the travesty a modern transposition was, and they were very much called out.
I'd say it's even more of a risk with…

As much as I love the show, I'm not always sure they have a full backstory or details thought through, I'm in the camp that views the plot as subservient to the characters, and some events and plots just seem to exist to create a development in the characters or the bigger story, and are best not investigated.
I must…

Pynchon's Mason and Dixon, its structure is already ideally suited to an adaptation.

There's already a movie. I haven't seen it, and last time I checked it wasn't readily available, but the accounts I've read seem to match opinions of the book, so I guess it was faithful enough.

I don't disagree, but there is also a version of the movie where Cher and her friends are the epitome of cool, and he is pretty much at the opposite of that.

Wanderlust, Clueless (debatable), I Love You, Man. Actually pretty much all his characters have a dorky aspect.

I'm sure everyone here remembers comedies that came out a lot earlier than that. Comedies can be enshrined in eternity, but how many movies a year really deserve that?

Pretty much by definition, something that's defined as cult will not be great, if it were it wouldn't be cult, it would be a genuine classic (barring "unacceptable" transgressions of social norms).

I just wanted to recommend this album, nice to see someone beat me to it.

Johnson longing for rosebud? I think the censors would have seen through the ruse.

A friend found out about that on his first day at a British university on an exchange semester, when asked to introduce himself, he gave what he thought was the English version of his French name, Jean-Thomas.
His classmates were amused.

You sir are a man of taste.

It's my first one, I kept meaning to after I found out about his music a couple of years ago, I just happened to find that one a couple of weeks ago in a cheap bookshop.
All I've read about him definitely make him sound like a pretty great guy.

Something called a tipsy cake with roasted pineapple I had at a restaurant on my birthday last year. The pineapple was entirely unnecessary but was there. The cake part is still one of the most amazing things I've ever had, it's cooked in various alcohols (hence tipsy) ends up just sweet enough instead of sickeningly…