Wait! I need closure on that anecdote!

Lois Lane had to do everything backwards and in heels.

God, yes, Gregory Peck. Holy shit.

YES to The Twilight Zone Companion. I read it cover to cover dozens of times from middle school on; I'm a total sucker for compendia, and that was probably my gateway.

That was the first thing that came to mind.

And now Mommy's stupid!

He could still surprise ya!

Years ago, I nabbed a shirt of Krusty smoking a cigarette and grousing, "I'm not leaving 'til I get paid." I've worn it on my last day at every job since.

Excellent call.

Judy Greer in everything.

Considering '60s Eastwood was the inspiration for Roland of Deschain…

Can't stand Leo. Do not get the hype. '70s De Niro all the way.

It can be two things!

Good point about the feeling of losing touch with your children; Stephen King points out in Danse Macabre that it hit a nerve in the States largely due to the fallout of the generation gap, whereas it did terrible business in East Germany, where the more pressing concern of bomb-throwing radicals over foul-mouthed…

It's definitely worth watching, but its shock value relies on a certain disposition: namely, Catholicism and social conservativism. It benefited from the times in which it was released, when America was emerging from the '60s and encountering a crisis of faith rooted in the social upheavals of the last decade. The…

They got 'em reversed. Red Dragon is a masterpiece; Manhunter is a turd. A bright, garish, Will-Graham-in-Miami Vice turd. I will never understand the adulation for that film.

Nice. I've got a paperback edition signed by Linda Blair. She was a delight.

The most disturbing part of the original remains Ellen Burstyn's very real scream upon hitting the bedroom floor, which was the result of Friedkin's bringing her down on her tailbone and saddling her with a lifetime of lower back pain.

*basks in the tears of Mad Max fans*

Neil's response to SHA was classic: "The first time I heard it, I liked how they played their guitars. Then I heard my name, and I thought, Now THIS is pretty great."