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Erik Charles Nielsen
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I always wondered whether Werner Herzog posted here. Now I know.

Call your agent, Big McLargeHuge!

Well, Kenickie was better than any of these guys, so it's… complicated at least.

I'll wait for the low-budget Turkish remake.

Remember that episode of 30 Rock where Jack Donaghy wanted to show a train wreck during sweeps, and Liz Lemon had to stop him by appealing to his deep respect for trains?

Oh, there are three episodes ABOUT me.

Nah — almost all of these are minor roles, if not borderline cameos.

Is this a crosspost from a NewsRadio article?

Well, if Parks and Rec ends this year, looks like Nick Offerman has a new project.

Well, it's not clear who wrote the song. Maybe it was Tom Waits after all, and he just couldn't work out what to do with it. (Which doesn't seem like a problem Tom Waits should have, though. Add some verses about whiskey, and you're set.)

I'd imagine… several hundred thousand per movie, at least. These movies make a weirdly large amount of money, and it has to go somewhere. And in this case, he… might make as much as the lead? Who played the lead?

Yeah — interiors were originally The Prince, now a set.

Well, even the Republicans of the '50s and '60s were okay with that era's income tax codes. Cutting the top brackets off was a crazy Reagan thing (that everyone since Reagan has been weirdly unwilling to touch, even though it's one of the main causes of the current financial mess.)

$100 million box office in the US and Canada, $216 million worldwide.
($60 million/$76 million for "Bad Santa.") Not a HUGE hit, but certainly a success (especially considering the $20 million production budget.)

Interestingly enough, that '97 "Elaine Benes"? …actually Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

A few first-season episodes us LA Community College, but that quickly became impractical.

"New Girl" is my favorite, if only because I drank in the bar where Nick works AND the exterior of the bar where Nick works before the show came out.

Who ended up getting cast as Cassie's ex-boyfriend in this? I auditioned, but did not get the part (obviously.)

And San Diego wants dorks.

I liked Moonrise Kingdom a lot, but Rushmore was just more… resonant. Maybe it's just that I was a socially awkward child prodigy who didn't take all that well to school. I don't know. And then there are the people who like Tenenbaums best, and I can't exactly say that's wrong either.