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franklinshepard
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If you're under 35, you weren't alive when Hair came out.

I am usually right with you when it comes to distaste for PC-ness, but for this show in particular, it seems that sometimes the viewers are supposed to share and appreciate Harvey's alpha maleness. This season in particular the women seem more and more like props than actual human beings with desires of their own.

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus See, I have friends who go exactly the other way - they love TNG but say they can't watch TOS because it's too ridiculous. (Um, try re-watching "Justice.")

I rewatched Voyager once in college, and it was a chore to get through those last few seasons, it's true. Harry Kim is easily the worst character, but you can tell exactly where Robert Beltran checked out, and Tom Paris and B'elanna Torres actually got less interesting as the show went on.

Are you suggesting that Clifford Odets plays don't speak to the common man? That's pretty much exactly the audience he was writing to.

They're both R-rated horror/sci-fi.

I just saw it last night and completely agree. Loved the trailer, the design is fantastic, and I couldn't care at all about what happened. Except to Kristin Scott Thomas, she was the only character I liked/cared about.

It is an incredibly joyful film, and that makes up for a lot of its shortcomings.

They can be. See Passing Strange - streaming on Netflix now.

Is this true? I guess I haven't watched my DVD of it since I got a widescreen TV five years ago…

I was really excited…until I found out that it's going to use all period numbers. I just don't think that's a good idea at all. The story needs an original score.

Hard to do, but probably:

They also showed Peter's Friends relatively often. Just a reminder - they didn't only show good foreign films.

They're such different actresses, I don't know how you could compare them. I couldn't imagine Farrow in Love and Death, for instance, but I couldn't imagine Keaton in Hannah and Her Sisters. (Well, not as Hannah, anyway. Maybe as Holly.)

Well, at least there's three minutes of music in Runyonland after the overture.

Although of course this part was famously written for Mia Farrow, and Allen claimed he didn't rewrite any of it when Keaton came aboard.

That still is also in the Cult Movies book that includes Annie Hall. So much of my film education came from those books! Thank you, Danny Peary, wherever you are.

I think Allen himself used the joke in his old standup act back in the 60s.

Also, when did Louis become my favorite character/only character I care about? (That's not true, I still love Donna.)

I find it impossible to believe that Jessica would've gone through with exposing Mike last season, simply because she would've opened up the firm to soooo much liability. Any case Mike worked would probably be reopened. They would be sued out of existence.