Hey, as far as I'm concerned, Cusack is the asshole in all of their interactions. He's the freshman philosophy major you just want to punch in the throat.

I love that scene so much. It's how we know that he's an evil genius, but why he couldn't just tell someone else the second password and have THEM type it in on the second keyboard?

Unanswered question: do all fuck-ups have the same father too, or does Assumption get around?

For someone who's primarily an independent theater guy, a paycheck is a paycheck. I remember him plugging Under Siege 2 on Leno and he looked like he was doing it at gunpoint. All I remember specifically is him ridiculing the jacket and tie they made him wear for the role. (He wanted to wear black, but was informed,…

To be fair to Seagal, he went way up his own ass and THEN went fucking crazy. Have you seen the pictures of him hanging out with Putin?

I think maybe its reputation has been sullied by the increasingly bad sequels.

Heh, I didn't know that about Happy Feet; must have been a slow year for Animated Features (I checked; one word: 'Cars'). Thanks for the interesting list of Oscar couples!

I didn't read that line about women being asked about their dresses as sexist. I thought he was making a joke about how mentally exhausting it must be for the red carpet hosts to come up with reasonably interesting questions for more than 50% of the interviewees.

"All we're saying is that that sort of thing should be decided at the state level."

I don't know if it's who you're thinking of, but Vince Gilligan said the same thing when he was asked why he cast so many comic actors on Breaking Bad.

Overall, not too bad… I would have liked to see George Miller pick up Best Director, but he had to be pretty happy nonetheless, although I wonder if Margaret Sixel will be polishing her Editing award in front of him for the foreseeable future ("Honey, don't you think you've polished that enough? You're taking the…

Credit Where It's Due Dept: Sheryl Crow hid the best song on 'The Globe Sessions' a few minutes after the last track. Not sure what it's supposed to be titled, but it's a bouncy upbeat number that's mostly about Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Pink Floyd did the same thing with 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' on Atom Heart Mother… it ends with a dripping faucet that loops forever on vinyl.

I remember an interview with Adam Jones (Tool's guitar player) where he said they put it at track 69 because "it would be more offensive to people who find things offensive." I can't really argue with the logic.

It can work the other way around too… 'What Shall We Do Now?' is a terrific track that the Pink Floyd guys (or possibly just Roger Waters) removed from The Wall for pacing reasons after the album covers had already been printed, so it still appears in the track listing and the lyrics. Unfortunately, this means you had…

Captain Blackadder: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being that each army would act as the other's deterrent. That way, there could never be a war.

I can't think of anything good, so instead I'll share the wish I make every year before the Oscars: may this finally be the year that some drunken intern at the soundboard accidentally plays Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" over the In Memoriam sequence.

It didn't compile… I think there may be an open paren in there somewhere.

I'm always bummed when a reviewer refers to Kaede as an evil witch-lady, or treats her as the villain of the piece. There's a terrific commentary track on some of the DVD editions (including the Criterion one) by Stephen Prince, who emphasizes that Kaede really is only doing what medieval Japanese society would expect…

Like I said, "based on the title," and the title isn't "He Never Died Starring Henry Rollins."