Actually, I've never fired a gun and have no desire to. I just live out my gangster fantasies in movies, then have the nerve to grouse about the little details.

Ah, yes. Cha cha heels, beating your kid with a car antenna … it's all here. One of John Waters' best, definitely.

My fantasy goes like this: We're watching "Grey's Anatomy." At some point I say to my wife, "I'll be right back," and I get up from the couch and leave the room. Seconds later, my car's headlights are seen, through the living-room window, backing down our driveway. Oblivious, my wife continues watching the show.

Whoops — forgot an "of" in my above comment. Coward or not, Ann Coulter is a straight-up crazy bitch, and the fact that so many people buy her books and her line of bullshit genuinely scares me.

Maybe you're right, Tomato Jones, and maybe I'm just fond of the image of Coulter getting plugged in the forehead.

I guess I could take AJR's advice. Or I could just get TiVo — or videotape it, or go into another room and watch the show I like. To be honest, I don't like to exert any effort involving television, so it's really my own fault.

flaming towel
I know this is a lame, straying comment, but I like the photo accompanying this feature, and the detail in the film of the towel catching on fire after Vito shoots Fanucci. One of my nitpicking movie pet peeves is when a character finishes firing a gun and then shoves the thing into his pants (a la…

I've been meaning to check that out for quite a while (I'm a Joe Dante fan). Now that I know there's a pointedly Coulteresque character in it, I definitely will.

Maybe everybody else missed it, but there is also a slow-motion close-up cameo of Frank Darabont passing by Drayton in the back of a truck, scornfully shaking his head and running one index finger down the length of the other in a "shame, shame" gesture. It's in the "for your consideration" reel he sent around to…

Ann Coulter / Mrs. Carmody
You know, I might have agreed somewhat with other reviewers' criticism that the movie's Mrs. Carmody is a not-completely-realistic caricature of a Christian fundamentalist, then you mentioned the name Ann Coulter. Monsters do exist.

I second you on "Don't Look Now" and 1973 in general, the year that also gave us "The Wicker Man."

It's incredibly underwhelming — it begins with the anti-declarative "I think …," and the word definitive is preceded by "a" instead of "the." The quote might as well be: "Yep, this is a Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Set. It says so right on the box." — David Lynch

Same here. My wife and I have too complicated and busy a schedule to watch any television, but (so help me) she likes "Grey's Anatomy," so the most I typically see of "30 Rock" is the opening line, before she says, "Oh! 'Grey's Anatomy' is on!" and I open the book in my lap and begin reading (which is how I prefer…

Pete has an accusatory tone in his voice when he mentions the fish to Catherine, but I think that's as far as it goes. It could be nothing more than another oddball line reading.

Gold Box Lynch Quote
I'm not sure if anybody's mentioned it already, but there's a priceless David Lynch quote printed on the back of the Gold Box Edition: "I think this is a great definitive Twin Peaks Gold Set. …"

I missed the boat on that two-disc edition, but it looks like it's gettable for not too much on the usual retail sites. Maybe a future high-def release will feature the original version as well.

All well and good, but …
I hope we can someday soon see an edition of "E.T." in which all the shotguns haven't been digitally replaced with rainbow-shooting brooms or whatever the hell Spielberg did to that movie after 9/11. I'm not a purist of any sort, but I'm waiting for the "Not-So-Special Edition: The Same Movie…

Surprised I Read the Whole Thing
Wow: A three-page interview with Chris Elliott about his various roles that is actually quite engaging and, for the most part, unpretentious. (I just hope there was at least some kind of self-conscious, I-know-what-you're-thinking tone to his voice when he described the Thomas…

If this were a thread full of people talking about how much they hate Jews, then I guess you'd be right on topic. Christmas-hating is a seasonal thing, though; Jew-hating is a year-round pastime for those who engage in it.

I'm not sure what kind of point Lobsters is trying so hard to make, here — at least not one that Mel Gibson hasn't already asserted so much more eloquently. At any rate, this isn't the place for it, nor is this the place to force a debate about Israel just because someone typed buzzwords like "Jew" or "Jewish" and…