He really was great in that Frankenstein movie.

When I get my time machine done, I'm going to remake The Road with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

Well…to Crosby, there probably was nothing bad about that period.  He was pretty well-off.

Most of what's dire, downbeat and depressing about movies nowadays isn't to do with their content, but the fact that millions of dollars was spent on them…

Hm.  In my opinion, Sarrazin was always a better actor than Peter Fonda.. Fonda improved to be sure, but for the first half or so of his career he was wooden and unconvincing.  Again, my opinion, but take a look at, say Easy Rider compared with The Limey — even if you don't think he was ever that bad, he sure improved.

He really was incredible in this.  Sadly, the only other thing *I* remember him for was when he was on the Tonight Show, so obviously drunk that after the first break Carson came back with "Gig Young had to leave.."

Yeah, but you could tell Kermit wasn't really saying that.

Ah, here it is, my semi annual chance to quote Alex Rieger and Tony Banta from a Taxi episode…

I would walk farther than that for an In-N-Out burger.  I'm not even sure how many miles that is, but it would be worth it.

In a Robert Parker novel, Spenser and Hawk are holed up in SF, and they won't leave the city till they get their illegal business taken care of… they know that if they cross either bridge they will be stopped at the toll booth by the law.
And of course, there's no toll to leave the city, and goddamn it, one visit to…

One thing Muhammed Ali said about the Rocky movies was —- no boxer in his right mind would lift weights (and I guess Rocky does in at least one of the movies because you don't argue with Ali).

Thanks for the tip!  I think I'll get around to DS9 soonish… I just figured out that it's streaming on netflix.  For now…..

But in Rocky IV, didn't he run to Russia?  From Philadelphia to Alaska, across the Bering Strait and then across into Moscow?  Pretty sure he did, but it's been awhile since I've seen the movie….

Me, I'd say it's Michael Bolton.*

Oh, you can say Walt is not "naturally evil" and I pretty much agree with you.. but he's gotten pretty good at being evil.  Some people have to practice their skills more than other people.

I actually think so too.   There is a lot of back and forth between author/editor/publisher with any novel ('cept with Stephen King, who apparently skips that whole editor step).  There've been delays and what was originally going to be three books, then five, turned into seven, but… I'd imagine that the sixth at…

Interestingly, the entirety of Song of Ice and Fire IS nothing but Martin's blog posts about tv shows.  Still, the books are thick and have interesting covers.

- used Bogdan's first earned dollar to buy a fucking soda.
- showed off his knowledge of minerals, which made Hank feel inadequate
- other stuff, too, I'm sure.  Boy, is Walter mean !!

It's my hope that Martin actually has the books finished completely and is just waiting around till every single site on the internet is nothing but people begging him to get to work.  After a couple years, he'll publish both of the last books, and say "oh, you mean these?"

I spoke to someone who said he was at the Pentagon I guess a week after 9/11, and HE was convinced that no plane hit it because…. it was cleaned up so well. 
Now, he couldn't get NEAR the building, because, you know, cleanup, investigation, rebuilding were going on, but he thought that this only proved there was no…