Sometime in the late 70s, there was a made for tv movie—I can't remember the title, but Paul Sorvino played a man who is raped by a woman (the actress who played Isis on Saturday mornings, I think).  It wasn't exactly a comedy, but not exactly a serious drama either.  A dramedy, I suppose (is that term used…

Does this mean David Bowie can reclaim his real name?

T-Bone,  RIngo has hardly been low profile over the years.  His All-Stars band tours pretty regularly.  He's by no means been reduced to Vegas lounge lizard status.

@avclub-90a5da808b7409c044aac94d490e7f0d:disqus  In the movie she's introduced as "Jane from America."

Several years ago, my dad saw Gregory Peck when he was on some sort of speaking tour, and Peck told this joke that went around about Reagan back in the old Hollywood days regarding Nancy's influence:

Jeeeed!

Synchronicity, C.J.C.!  You and I posted the same fact at the same time (see above).

Hey there, buttercp, don't be using British and Irish interchangably.  Hinds is Irish.

I love it that Phipps misspelled "Nights in White Satin" as "Knights…"  When I was a youngster, I thought that was the actual title, and I had all these etherial images in my head of mounted warriors riding about clad satiny white robes.

Haven't thought about ROM in years, but it was fantastic.  It was especially exciting for me growing up in West Virginia, as that's where the early stories were set.  And now I especially appreciate the fact that the supporting characters were normal people, not hick stereotypes.

I don't know.  I think both Dracula and Frankenstein might have him beat, and maybe Tarzan as well.

Jean-Luc and CW are correct.  Back in those days it seems SF and fantasy films automatically got a G rating.  Apparently the MPAA couldn't see them as anything other than Saturday afternoon serials.  So "Planet of the Apes" with a naked Charleton Heston, people being shot in the face, medical experiments on humans,…

I think your assessment of Klebold and Harris is on the money.  The annals of AMerican crime seem to be littered with such sociopath + weak-minded toadie pairings (Leopold and Loeb; Tulloch and Parker of the Dartmouth murders).

Simon, you're not being nitpicky.  I was going to say the same thing about the Invaders and All-Stars.  And I was likewise bugged by the lack of swastikas (eh—that doesn't sound quite right.  I hope you know what I mean).

"one of the absolute best details to get in the entire LAPD"  Really?  Would you want to be the cop responsible for personally wrapping all those penises?

My guess is that Nix figures his opponents will be too rattled by his demeanor and their impending doom as they listen to the countdown to do anything but go straight for the gun.  And in 99.9% of the cases, he'd be right.

When this scene began it reminded me of the scene in "Joe Kidd" when Don Stroud offers Clint Eastwood a similar deal.  Eastwoods response is different, though equally slick and effective

It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I believe Mirren transforms into Guenivere during the scene.

For a little historical perspective violence, gore, sex, etc. in comics, and what it allegedly does to kids' brains,  I heartily recommend David Hadju's "The 10-cent Plague."

I don't know.  "The Dark Knight" definitely treads on slippery ethical ground, but it's far from a wholsale endorsement of Bush/Blair.  I'd argue that Caine's Alfred and Freeman's Lucius Fox are the true moral centers of the film, and they openly question Batman's tactics, especially near the end when Fox lets him…