Its not necessarily a great man theory, but revolves around central "characters," if you will, like most good histories. Wallace's is an interesting and sympathetic point from which to consider the period, but it's not like Stone tries to make him an important mover and shaker.
I thought FDR came out on top, though I…

Its not necessarily a great man theory, but revolves around central "characters," if you will, like most good histories. Wallace's is an interesting and sympathetic point from which to consider the period, but it's not like Stone tries to make him an important mover and shaker.
I thought FDR came out on top, though I…

When you remark that the Beirut of the show differs significantly from the apparently peachy, "cosmopolitan city" of reality, are you talking about the same Lebanon that has been in a perpetual state of sectarian division, civil war and/or hostile occupation since… at least the end of World War I?

When you remark that the Beirut of the show differs significantly from the apparently peachy, "cosmopolitan city" of reality, are you talking about the same Lebanon that has been in a perpetual state of sectarian division, civil war and/or hostile occupation since… at least the end of World War I?

Another band with a massive boomer fanbase.

I read somewhere that Mr. Buffet considers himself a devotee of James Joyce.

Backstreets
Prove It All Night ('78 live version especially)
Promised Land
Thunder Road
The River?

If you heard Walt Whitman talk about America and America's problems, he would sound like an idiot too. Bruce Springsteen is a genius.

I bet in real life he doesn't even like cars.

Well that's fucking weird.

All she did was flip the bird, man. What ever happened to rock and roll? There's probably fucking giant billboards in this country of that Johnny Cash flipping the bird photo and that guy is revered as a saint-like figure among several communities, including many Christians and all lovers of song. MIA isn't allowed to…

Whatever, Vic. MIA was unknown to the vast majority of the billion or so people who allegedly watch the Superbowl. You couldn't tell from the 99 other black women in the background that she and Ms. Minaj were merely providing color for Hollywood's spectacle, as well as some—any—reason for the hordes of our bourgeois…

This is news? What's she ever offered aside from the maudlin, belated pseudo-feminist schtick? Like this new iteration, that gen-x road apple has always been more talked about than listened to.

Once, a long time ago, lost now to the mists of time, there was a network sitcom called 'Seinfeld.'

Enough. It's enough to have seen this movie. No one expects you to have an opinion about it. 

"(in keeping with its overall micro vision)"

Satin Doll?

Yeah, they built the set for 100s of millions and now they're just flying by the seat of their pants.

What does Margaret Shroeder, immigrant concubine of former criminal boss Nucky Thomson, do once she 'becomes a player'? Why not give the storyline time to develop rather than look to television characters for affirmation of one's own world-views?

The Doyle character is indeed great. When he first reappeared in the scene at Jimmy's with Remus, I was shocked he'd still be hanging around. But the writers made it clear, making him almost literally spineless in that neck-brace.