My earliest memory of STAR WARS presumably occurred shortly after I watched it when it first came out. Went to see it again the very next night, as a matter of fact.

Clearly you have never read/seen Peyton Place. It depicts no idyll. More of a whited sepulcher.

I've been meaning to watch that. I wish I could find the Dutch one, but I've had no luck so far. (I might if I were willing to pay for it, but I'm not.)

Because it was a lousy book? Or because it made you feel sick? If the latter, see my comment above.

I thought the book was very good, but, boy oh boy, I sure felt poisoned when it was done.

The book on which THE DINNER is based was published in 2009. CARNAGE came out in 2011. Of course, the play on which that movie was based premiered in 2006, so, who knows? maybe Koch's novel was inspired by it.

There's only so many times I can get away with telling myself that the shock of being strangled/suffocated has brought on a fatal heart attack to explain away a death occurring within fifteen seconds in some show or other.

I loved it, too, and, like you, hadn't read the books.

Or perhaps anybody.

Vastly different beings, human and otherwise!

Add to the mediocre dramatic parts mediocre music, singing, and dancing, and you have a movie worthy of fourteen Oscar nominations.

I not only didn't love, I downright disliked LA LA LAND. But, even if I'm dead inside—and I'm pretty sure I'm not—that dislike isn't a symptom of it.

Oh, now I understand—you're a jerk!

Yes. Though of course my faith in you is utter, I double-checked after I first read your comment. And was relieved to learn I did not after all have to admire something about Casey.

I really need to start watching that show again.

True!

Did you just watch ARRIVAL?

Pretty sure that "subtle" was intended ironically.

Trump wishes he had Burns's figure.

First (and most important), I of course meant to write "end up," not just "end."