She is the hottest woman ever.  
She is the funniest woman ever.  Even in Children's Hospital. Especially in everything else.
Even in Will & Grace - a show I truly hated.

"Oh… we all pulled together… at Eton… you know."
Best line reading ever.

Figures you'd cite Batman.

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Not so!  Marlon Brando, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman are all on record as disdaining the award.  Hoffman deadpanned during his Kramer win: "This guy has no genitalia, but he's got a sword. I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control."  He also said he planned on waiting until he lost…

How far away huggable "black people" live from Beverly Hills apparently.

Marijuana

I hope Chevy Chase's character makes an appearance, dies, and is left in someone's backyard.

Yeah, at the very least the actor needed to be far more charismatic.

Liked for your last line alone.  Even though the whole post is dead on Mr. Frodo!  I didn't sit through the whole thing and quel horror!  I am not a fan of the books really but if there's one thing kids of all ages relate to it's soul raping by baffling, unfair and mercurial authority figures.

It actually ends with Gandalf and co. dramatically riding toward the audience on the way to the battle of Helm's Deep. The battle that dominates Jackson's Two Towers.  It's an epic visual in a movie filled with great visuals (the Ringwraiths stabbing the empty beds in Bree) and terrible visuals (the Balrog, most of…

I agree. What's truly great about the comic is the parts that are totally unfilmable (the language, complexity, lack of a real protagonist, metaphysics, underlying dread in Reagan cold war, etc.,). I really do think the movie is about as much of a success as could be expected and it succeeds mainly by not being far…

I believe you. If you're a Lynch fan then your two least favorite movies of his really should be the least Lynchian movies he's made… which are Dune and Straight Story.  Dune will always be special for me because of some of the visuals. Harkonnen floating around covered in boils, that weird space slug at the…

Both Alice in Wonderlands actually… except the animated one is a bona fide classic and I think more than deserves to exist.  Alice definitely belongs on any "unfilmable" list though. The book is about math illogic and clever wordplay. It's nowhere near as visual as filmmakers seem to hope it is.

I'd have written that "on its own merits it is one of the best films ever made but as an adaptation One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a noble failure." This difference is crucial because I'm correct and you're just being needlessly hyperbolic.

Puss and Panda are decent movies… not really Oscar bait.

Yeah and Brett McKenzie had the honor of winning Best Song and then crouching to give his thanks.  Did they know that he's a man and not a muppet?

I've read/seen Kazantzakis and might check the others (thank you for that, btw) but let me add some lighter fare to your list there Girard… I adore Jesus Christ Superstar and enjoyed Gore Vidal's way ahead of its time Live from Golgotha - it has a time traveling journalist go back to do a news story on the crucifixion…

Damn you.  My kids stopped watching that show (and Little Bear) a few years ago and they've been bliss.  But you mention Franklin and suddenly the banjo in my head starts and Bruce Cockburn starts singing "Hey it's Franklin!" and damn it!!! The whole song plays in my head.  All of it.  AARGH!

Dropping the cymbals was funny. Funnier was the hot model presenter-helper lady who seemed totally game and laughing, but also seemed scared to be so close to unpredictable funny guys.

No mention of the bizarre sound whine during the telecast?  Surely it wasn't just coming out of my speakers and those of Salon's Andrew O'Heir?