Mentally scanning for irony on that, but I'll still comment. To this day I think Friends with Money is the absolutely best treatment of class/money issues committed to film in the past 20 yrs. in that it all but ignores the unignorable. Some of the music choices are unfortunate, but it's a truly amazing character…

I saw a graphic novel adaptation of Swann's Way once. Magic lantern was kinda cool…

I keep having this insane vision of turning Houellebecq's Elementary Particles into a film.

Not trying to be a dick, but can y'all make a case for the Howling for me? I've never quite gotten into that one, but maybe I'm missing something.

Sorry, read "Hooten" for "Horton," though that also might make an interesting Seuss story.

Ummm, actually, if I remember right and this is the same Peter Horton, he was the last partner of poet (and baziliionaire's son) James Merrill before Merrill died in 1995. So… does this complicate references to him eating nuts?

I hate to keep harpin' on it, but I think in religious terms McCarthy is closely approaching a kind of gnosticism or at least a radically pessimistic view (to say the least) about the unredeemable nature of material existence. I don't think the Judge speaks for McCarthy; I think he's ultimately a parody of attempts…

Homestead yes. Am I the only one hankering for a reappreciation of Live Skull? An appreciation of Live Skull? Are those crickets?

Pee on the Methodists. Or maybe the Lutherans… Wait, which are the Christians that are all into that forgiveness shit?

The Herrs may be a bit off, but I think the Coors have been offer for longer. There was a pretty good family bio that came out a few years back ('98? '99?). They're mostly just good ol' fashioned union-haters (work, not gay, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the clan didn't have something to say about the…

For my money, an overlooked gem is still "The Trouble With Harry." It's got an almost impermeable veneer of Norman Rockwell goshdarnit-smallnewenglandvillageness replete with vibrant foilage [sic], kooky characters (a quirky artist, a quirky sea captain, a quirky spinster, a quirky Shirley MacLaine at her…