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Hell, just look at the front page of a newspaper from, say, 1962.

Joel Achenbach hypothesized that a magazine with actual nudity had to include legitimate writing to avoid being shelved with "Juggs" and "Drunk Chicks Monthly," which is why Playboy published Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick and interesting interviews. Whereas the Maxims of the world, by staying just on the other side of

"Primarily comedies"?

He's helping Valencia plan weddings!

Yup.

Right - I'm sure I've said this here before, but Marvel produces two or three fun action-adventure movies a year that I can watch with my kid and I can watch with my parents. That's incredibly hard to do.

Making money isn't enough; they also need to make enough money to justify the outlay, leave people liking the characters enough that they look forward to the next movie, buy the toys and other merch, watch spinoff cartoons, etc. Has ANYTHING in the DC movies managed this? I mean, my mother-in-law still talks about

I envision Melania holed up in New York shouting that this was not in the prenuptial and other stuff contract.

His doctor makes Leo Spaceman look like Jonas Salk.

Circle of Poo, as South Park dubbed it.

I see what you did there.

Pynchon got that from the Unknown Comic.

I would believe that Zack Snyder thinks it's spelled "artefact."

One thing I love is that Steve goes from awkwardly reading his lines off a sheet of paper taped to the back of his shield at the start to a polished and confident performer by the end.

Reminds me of the time in 1992 he mispronounced Mario Cuomo's last name so that the first syllable sounded like the last syllable of "raccoon."

It also allows Duke to say, "Of COURSE I'm not racist! I have a friend at the gym who's a gentleman of color!"

Yours too, huh?

I was one of the people who was not sure about Evans as Cap, and am delighted that I was very, very wrong. He's amazing, and, much like Christopher Reeve, seems to get what playing that type of superhero involves.

CHUNK SQUATTHRUST!

White whine and cheese!