Um, I am seriously NOT recommending that anyone seek out and read Anthony's "In the Barn", a story that appeared in Again, Dangerous Visions.. but anyone who's read it will probably agree that, yes, Anthony's ideas about sex, and about women in general, might very well be hard-wired into HIM….
Yuck. I know Ellison's…

I got to these too late, I guess — I was in my 20s when I picked up the first one, read something like 10 pages, then decided I'd had enough. I'm kinda glad I didn't get into the Xanth series as a kid.
There are books I read when I was younger that I still like even though I can see how silly they are -the Tarzan…

Dustin Hoffman bandied about the idea of a Graduate sequel in an interview. Suffice it to say, judging from his few-sentences idea, it's really a damn good thing it never got done. Not that Hoffman's take was weird…. Wait, it was. Weird and creepy.

A friend of mine, right after seeing Hitchhikers, called me nearly in tears, she thought it was so bad. A year or so later I saw it on dvd and… not bad at all. In fact, pretty good. It's certainly not a scene-for-scene translation; they didn't have the time for that, or any interest in it. But.. Adams' books have…

I'm curious - which of the Kenzie/Gennaro books did you think was weak? (I thought it was the latest, Moonlight Mile, though I still liked it). I was not hopeful for the casting of Patrick in Gone Baby Gone, but Casey Affleck nailed it, and yeah, it would be great to see the rest of the books done.

— and I would wonder why little children would want to see Beatrix dead, since they would think it was Miss Potter being killed. Probably by Mr Tod, or Tommy Brock.

Yeah, the non-continuation of the Pullman books is very disappointing to me (and to Sam Elliott, so why is no one just doing everything they can to please him?). Golden Compass has its problems but all in all I thought the world was realized pretty well. the daemon visuals were everything I wanted, and the…

Man, do I want to see Orphan Black. And I will, via netflix —- they don't have it streaming but they've got the discs. I've heard nothing but good things about it, and this Tatiana girl (first time I've seen her I think) was great in P&R. I look forward to seeing more of her. Or many of her I guess.

I've always been of two minds about Jamm. He's a funny character, played perfectly, and used well, often. But… he's so damn close to many, many actual political figures that he makes me angry. When John Boehner told everyone everyone that he "fought the good fight" after he fucked up the shutdown plan (or whatever…

Ron WILL go to a doctor when necessary ('member the time April drove him to the hospital to get his hernia fixed?) but I think he only goes in for routine maintenance. For Ron, that's pretty much a hernia that keeps him immobile in his chair for 18+hours, or I don't know, maybe a torn femoral artery. Maybe.

I'e always admired Watterson's no-merchandising policy and am glad he stuck it out. Not all comic strip merchandising has been bad — I've owned a Far Side coffee mug for instance. But think of all the crap Charles Schulz put his name to: I GUESS I can understand the Peanuts kids hawking Dolly Madison snacks but —…

Sean, your suggestion for the last episode lacks a trade embargo subplot. Don't let it happen again.

Actually, The Right Stuff, book and movie, HAD the girl's perspective, pretty much. As well as other perspectives. Not sure how this show could prove more interesting than The Right Stuff.

Oh my god, Highway 61 is fantastic: it's a funny, weird, off-balance road movie (and I mean that in a good way). I only saw it once, but now that you reminded me of its existence (and its title..) I'm going to seek it out somehow.

Yeah, I mentioned that too — goddamn amazing impressions— completely real, no tricks or hammy jokes.

I love Breaking Bad. But if Lauter had been in it (as a cop, a drug kingpin, a damn car wash customer) he could have blown Bryan Cranston off the screen.
(I say "could have" because Cranston is beyond brilliant in that show…. but with a decently written scene Lauter would have killed.)

He absolutely shines in Magic; without shining if that makes sense. His performance (and the role as written, both in the novel and movie) is the only down-to-earth one; he's the only one you might meet on the street and not think he was bugfuck crazy. It makes his (hey, wait, spoiler alert for 35 year old movie)…

Thanks for including that impressionist clip here. Seen it before but it's so refreshing. He could easily have looped dialogue for any of those actors he did, and you would never have known the difference. Not an ounce of caricature or exaggeration.
"Turn actor" is a wonderful phrase. Lauter is one of my favorite…

These two need to do ONE more prison movie, only this time the glass cells will be full of the creatures from Cabin in the Woods…

We meet that idea halfway in California, Millennial Historian. We have the Secure Housing Units (SHUs). They're I think 7' by 10' concrete cells. So the prisoners don't get a chance to meet or talk to each other, and they won't form nasty prison gangs.
We don't have the whole teachers/social workers/medical staff…