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The Manipulator
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It is awesome, mostly because of Moriarty. His whole performance seems inexplicably modeled on Foghorn Leghorn and it's a joy to watch.

I approve of this blatant attempt to call forth the Taco Bell bell.

This reminds me that I need to stop by H&M for socks on my way home.

Scott Rudin should jump in a pool holding his wig for one of those Vanity Fair Oscar issue photos.

That's awesome. Whenever you're eventually done doing these, I hope you're able to somehow publish a book of your interview outtakes!

I started reading this expecting a Random Roles and was briefly disappointed that Harris didn't ask him about Damage. Then I saw the error of my ways, and looked back up at the giant photo of Irons that I now spend all my days staring at…

Is Pacino a drunk or something? What's with the ever-constant dishevelment? He shows up in movies these days looking like he passed out in the corner of a Burlington Coat Factory. I look at him like someone's mom, wishing he'd tuck his shirt in more and comb his hair. It's embarrassing for a man his age.

If you're drawing the ire of someone that could be described as a tumblr feminist, you're clearly doing something right.

Walter Hill is such a badass. I saw him talk after a screening of The Driver last fall and he seemed like such a cool guy and really shrewd about making movies in Hollywood.

I like Kroll on CBB, but I could not get through the first episode of this. It felt like it was directed by a radio shock jock, which echoes the stuff he said in his interview here about attention spans.

Yep, channeling a little of Beetlejuice in that. Totally makes up for the Keanu performance.

I love the way Stephen Furst is looking worriedly at the recipe in Cancer Eggs.

*imagines Peter Graves slowly, gently shaving all the hair off of Sweetums*

There's a good film hidden within it starring John Mahoney. But the romance is crap and Ione Skye is a black hole of charisma.

I guess I was thinking of deliberate mediocrity being an attempt to offend as few people as possible, which means appealing to the lowest-common-denominator in terms of an audience.

It actually fits right in with the current vogue of anti-comedy stuff. If it came out right now, I would assume it was derived from some misguided Comedy Bang Bang improv.

The saddest thing I can imagine is if the very last thing on someone's bucket list is to watch The Bucket List.

I'm not very fond of New Girl, little of it I've seen, but I think the show starring the half-man is a much better example. It's about pandering to the lowest common denominator purely for profit, with no attempt at originality.

Actually, Netlfix has already ordered a second season of House of Cards, despite the fact that it hasn't "premiered".

Well, Burl, you could be right, but will it be as great as Killdozer?