FYI - Scott's been doing an occasional podcast
"Scott Free" at www.jeffgoodes.com. The second episode includes Paul Bellini and discusses Scott's battle with stomach cancer (during development and filming of "Death Comes to Town"). He's cancer-free now, thankfully.

Freedom of Choice
It's all about freedom of choice, the right to put anything in my body I want - whether it's an idea, a line…or Carlos!

Perfect subject for a Gateways to Geekery
Zappa

Excellent call, Donna!
I saw Kurtwood Smith being the deadly badass in movie after movie, and he was utterly convincing. I had SUCH mental whiplash in the first few weeks of That 70s Show, trying to get used to the idea that I could laugh at him. It has to be such an odd experience to see his early roles, for people…

Lux Aeterna
Scott, this was one of the key pieces in 2001: A Space Oddyssey (and actually comes from a piece older than that). It may be odd to hear in commercials, etc. after you've heard it in Requiem, but that's not where it's "originally" from.

This was hysterical - cover it!
'Nuff said.

Tuscon Institute of Technology
Did feminist Whedon actually have his heroines attending TIT?????

Awkward jump to Perrin at the hearing…
I didn't see my take anywhere in the conversations about this. Most reactions were "they should have shown Rossum getting to him and making him a Doll again" and "he voluntarily had Rossum re-imprint him to eliminate his memory of killing his wife".

EXCRUCIATING
That whole seduction-by-bland-physics-lecture scene was so freakin painful. Oh, it burns! it burns!!!

Pre-emptive firsties for the next column
"Next week: Head-On"

KITH flashback
Jeez. could Matt Damon look any more like a Bruce McCullough character?

One good idea and one bad
My wife and I used the quest music from Monty Python & The Holy Grail for our announcement (you know, "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr. and Mrs. blah blah blah). Everyone clapped and cheered, then the younger 1/2 of the room bust out in hysterical laughter and the older ones got a…

Kudos to Zach
"But there were some problems, you know how it goes, and the planet's atmosphere got a little, what's the word for it, destroyed"

@urgh

Retcon?
What's a retcon?

Alice Doesn't Live Anymore…

WTF?!?!? Where's Cuba Gooding?
see subject line

There is, of course, no escape
Y'know, a lot of the dialog quoted here sounds exactly like Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffing…

Reference or coincidence?
In The Running Man (Ah-nold movie), the three "winners" who were supposedly freed and now live on a sunny island are Whitman, Price, and Haddad. In tonight's Hero's episode, the three agents murdered by ol' Shifty were Whitman, Price, and a vanilla name starting with H. If it was a…

I saw it at a 4:30 show on Sunday at an IMAX theater - I didn't see any walkouts.