This sounds like an exchange out of a Don DeLillo novel.

Both these episodes are joyous and I find myself quoting them constantly. When Kramer gags on the scotch and then walks out asking Jerry and Elaine to keep it to a "low roar" . . . I kind of wish they'd let that serious Kramer exist for another episode.

To me the real problem, as NR points out, was Sarah Paulson. It's kind of similar to Moira Kelly in West Wing, but they smartly faded Kelly out and dropped her from the show altogether. Other than women in power (CJ Cregg, Amanda Peet here, Felicity Huffman in SPORTS NIGHT), Sorkin doesn't really write women that well…

Great list! Alos, Not necessarily for the same audience as Mr. Rogers and Judith Viorst, but Robert Cormier's young adult fiction deals with the brutality of death in ways that are not only starkly and brutally realistic, but also offer a sense of closure in its inevitability.

Some of Keanu Reeves work with Dogstar was mildly listenable.

I really enjoyed parts of Leap of Faith, particularly the romance between Debra Winger and Liam Neeson.

I agree with you there about the ending of OWL; it seems he had a kind of disdain for most of his characters (except one) for being shallow.

I'm about 130 pages in, and there's little discussion (aside from one key moment featuring an interesting rumination on the Beatles) of pop culture. If anything, one of the key foci is more on the way mass media and technology seemingly offers a refuge for loneliness while at the same time reinforcing it. In some…