Right, the handsomeness is important. Grant's physical appeal stems from being quintessentially handsome, not cute, or overly sexy or sexual (like J Depp?), or pretty in a male way (like say a Brad Pitt maybe?), or having square-jawed hyper-masculine features (see Crowe / Gibson above). Grant occupied a middle ground.…

In Bert I. Gordon's version, Alice fights off a giant lizard with just a sharpened stick and a car battery-sized nuclear device.

re "detached," he seemed incapable of making or sustaining eye contact with his guests. It always looked like he was looking at his guest's chin or neck.

He's my favorite person to watch onscreen, favorite actor I guess. At some point I realized that what I really enjoyed about him is his style of masculinity: he could be wrong, make a fool of himself, or be bested in wits by a woman and still maintain his character's dignity, it's masculinity and humanness. His…

McSpencer Tracy

In an unsuccessful attempt at reinvention, he blue himself, and then became a winking piano-bar cad.

I disagree with pretty much all of these opinions on actor/character replacements on M*A*S*H. If memory serves, in order of changes, Potter replaced Blake, BJ replaced Trapper, and then Winchester replaced Burns.

Does the name David Caruso appear amongst those 1055 comments?

I found an edition of the book that contained nude photos, which I think were there to represent the nude stills Geiger had of Carmen. Upon reflection I'm not sure why I didn't buy it. . .

"She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up," Marlowe says of Carmen to her father, General Sternwood.

First time I saw poke used like this was in a Larry McMurtry book.

PO's been a "friend of" the AVC for a while, even contributing a piece or two of writing to it, if memory serves. I've never found him very entertaining, While I find the avc and its commenters' enthusiasm for his act puzzling, I understand their affection for him as an unassuming celebrity type.

Let's build a fort?

Sometimes this means good writers start looking for other jobs and pouring their best efforts into new projects. Let's hope this is not the case here.

I see. Makes sense. Here's what I had in mind:

SJP as Seabisc… ah forget it, too hacky

I read this in a Diane Keaton, Annie Hall, kind of way. Is that what you were going for?

Porky Pig

I suggest reconsidering that practice of listening to a podcast while riding a bike.

Re pictures… I prefer more information on the page. I like to be able to survey the content available at once, on one page, without scrolling. Ie, I like words. Pictures are pretty and while they too are communicative, they take up a lot of space. So we end up with less information being communicated. A handful of…