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You're right, he is good in "The Wiz"—but that was pretty much his only film role, aside from (aauugghhh!!!!) "Captain EO." I think our greatest talents (EGOT winners and others) should cross more than 2-3 disciplines. Why does no one ever mention or remember Sammy Davis Jr? He could do it ALL.

And ABC cancelled "Trophy Wife." Because, you know, in this day and age, we all need a lot less clever, well-written, character-driven comedies, and more serial killers ("Hannibal") and save-the-world shoot-'em-ups ("Agents of Shield").

First, a bit of background/caveat: I believe Michael Jackson was a supremely talented individual (certainly the most important male dancer of the past 30+ years), and his musical impact is unmistakable, especially from his early days in the Jackson 5 around 1969 through the early 90's ("Black or White"). Also,…

As a couple people below have touched upon, this may not be a very good Superhero movie (certainly not in the Marvel canon, which has offered us such delicious pleasures as "The Avengers" "Thor" and "Captain America: Winter Soldier" and maybe the first "Iron Man"), but it is definitely of a piece as an Ang Lee movie. …

I'm currently teaching a unit on the Civil Rights era to high school juniors—they babbled and texted their way through Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" (more's the pity), but when I showed the 10-minute clip of Nichols talking about how she almost left the show—only to have Martin Luther King tell her at a fundraiser "You…

THIS. This is way too true. It's the same thing in the way SF writers/readers are fine with coy, women-on-women relationships and sexuality, but recoil and get into a froth when discussing gay male characters. It is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to a lot of SF fans that there could be such a thing as a gay man in the future, on…

I've been venting about that for years—every time I've tried to buy a friend's kid a birthday present, and the salespeople are always starting with "Boy or girl?" I had friends who painted their baby's room yellow with classic Pooh motif, and you wouldn't believe how many people were genuinely flummoxed by that.…

I subbed for three years in California (where all you need to do is pass the CBEST test), before moving to Oregon (where you have to have a teaching license, which meant an additional year and a half of graduate school). I've been subbing for six years and have only had 3 job interviews, despite at this point having…

The only part I noticed where Rachel didn't seem to "click" in the role in when she was doing the comedy bits—she seemed too rehearsed. The thing about Streisand on the original cast album is you can hear the hunger in her voice—she tore into songs as though she were starving, and the songs were a fourteen-course…

As beautiful and haunting as "Who Are You Now" is, "His Is the Only Music That Makes Me Dance" would've probably worked better lyrically with both the show as it was and what you're describing. Not sure why they went with "Who."

Well these days people can text each other or Facetime—but your point is a good one.

I thought that, too!!

It's a lovely, sweet movie, but It largely reduces the facts of Barrie's life and his relationship with the Davies family to Swiss Cheese. Look for "James Barrie and the Lost Boys" done for the BBC if you want something closer to the truth. (For one thing, Barrie and Peter were never close, and Peter later committed…

The two film versions are inside-out candies. The 70's version seems like a frothy, late-60's-70's feel-good musical like "Doctor Doolittle" or "Mary Poppins" or "Tom Sawyer"—and then, with the Slugworth stuff and the darker scenes in the factory, it's like biting into a big truffle and discovering a dark,…

Any movie that, at its climax, has Michele Pfeiffer descending the staircase with a shotgun to defend herself and her family is not complete dreck.

"Alice in Wonderland" gets trippier if you've seen "Return to Oz"—there are HUGE similarities in the plot points and arcs. Both even feature a demented villainess fixated on heads.

Right on! Hannah is also arguably the only woman (besides Lily Tomlin in "All Of Me") who's paired really well romantically with Martin, though Bernadette Peters and Diane Keaton gave their best shots.

I counter with "Boys on the Side" & "Grey Gardens."

Venice, Phoenix, Savannah, Cheyenne, Austin (girls AND boys)…