Or his performance as Benny Southstreet in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

So that's where Catwoman ended up — we all knew that she wasn't really dead.

Who was the Russian who got electrocuted in the bathtub?

It was the beginning of the "Law & Order" recycling program, since both series had the same Rule #1 for casting, namely, that the actor had to be willing to stay in New York for the duration of the filming.

I watched a few episodes because of Rita Moreno (at the time, I was unaware of who J.K. "steals every scene of everything he's in" Simmons was) and lost interest rather quickly, since as far as I could tell, it was basically a soft-core gay porn soap opera (not that there's anything wrong with that) set in someone's…

A friend of mine who is a classical historian pointed out to me after Trump won that there is a long history of democracies voting themselves out of existence when the average citizen no longer feels that he or she has a personal stake in the government. He also pointed out that unlike most fascists, Trump doesn't…

The thing that's always struck me as weird is that I read somewhere that Martin cited The Lord of the Rings as the basis for his narrative principle that "anyone can die," given that in the LotR trilogy, only four "good guys" who are actual characters die. Moreover, three of them go out like heroes, one of them gets…

Wasn't there a once late-night TV ad along the lines of "Raise eyebrows for fun and profit in the privacy and security of your own home"? Or am I thinking of ad that used to run in the back of Popular Mechanics?

Next you're going to tell me that you don't eat Cracker Jack for the surprise.

I was thinking that that could work — there is an all-male society on Mars that reproduces by ectogenesis that is facing an ecological crisis as the planet dries up and the atmosphere escapes, and an all-female society on Venus that reproduces by cloning that is facing an ecological crisis as the planet heats up and…

I much preferred the sequel's working title, Please God, Kill Me Now.

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Maybe he'll meet up with Yossarian. . .

1. It's "draught," not "draft" — this is neither the NFL nor Budweiser, but a bunch of people with various kinds of British Isles accents.

In other words, the kind of nonsensical plot twist that the writers of Game of Thrones live for.

You MANIACS!

Did he play a great ape?

I was once on a long-haul airline flight and turned on the in-flight "entertainment" [sic] system to The Truth about Charlie a few minutes in. I remember thinking, "This seems strangely familiar," and then a few minutes later, "Wait! This is a remake of Charade — a really, really, bad remake of Charade." Why would…

I guess that depends on what one means by "franchise." I think of the Weissmuller Tarzan movies as a franchise unto themselves even though the character was played by other actors before and since. A franchise that really took a bullet once the Hays Code came into force and there were no more naked body doubles or…

In the meantime, the real Trump-Russia story (his financial connections to various oligarchs and banks and the question of how much he owes them) and the real voting-interference story (state governments busily disenfranchising the poor and minorities) are completely ignored in favor of the Trump Family Soap Opera.