Thank you!

*awed slow-clap*

"Athena":

What did Alana reply to that? Something like "It doesn't feel like I dodged a bullet…." (Then I missed the next sentence.)

To be honest, you're not wrong about the type of role she has in "Miami Vice," but something in the execution (not sure if it's the directing or the acting or even the editing) saves it somehow. It felt non-trivial to me.

I remember her most vividly from "Raise the Red Lantern," and after that from "Farewell My Concubine," "Shanghai Triad," and "Chinese Box." Her role in "Miami Vice" was actually quite affecting, given that it could have been a throwaway hero-motivation/illustration-of-the-world's-grimness.

If what I read is true, it seems Dino De Laurentiis pretty much told Thomas Harris that, in order to hold on to the franchise, some new movie had to be made, and that if TH didn't do it DDL would get someone else, someone much more likely to screw it up.

This is the one book in the series that I haven't read, but judging from the movie (which was awful and contradicted a bunch of established good things in bad ways), apparently Lady Murasaki (played by Gong Li, who is great but also Chinese rather than Japanese), her ancestor's mask (a sort of samurai thing) happens…

McNulty's ancestors were good police.

And Francis Dolarhyde in "Red Dragon."

Her?

And his pigeons!

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

Those M&M ads are pretty anthropomorphic, so… Good call.

Ham on!

"Here She Comes (She's a Maneater)"

USE THE LADIES ROOM!

Ova?

DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN HE ATE A WILLIAM BLAKE

Maybe Barney* will give Will a hug.