Just Plain Torn
Looks great, sounds great, costume designs are spot on, but . . .

Remember that? Remember when daddy hit the referee with the whisky bottle?

Registered, expired and co-opted already:

Jesus vs. Santa Clause!

@HP: Breach did pretty well over here, dunno how it did abroad. It's the sort of thing that, if you take it at face value and pretended it isn't based on anything, it's really very good, but if you compare it to the history it pretends to relate, it hoovers.

. . . tastes . . . like . . . roasted Cable Guy . . .

A Scanner Darkly. Yes yes. We saw that "opening" night (at a local arthouse, maybe two dozen people showed), and were glad we did. Not sure we would have ever seen it otherwise. Most scary, because of the feeling it gave me that it would take a mere nudge for our world to become like theirs. Deserves a boost.

If I were you, I woulda bought the lunch.

Nuts to you, Scobias! I may actually have to sit down and watch this thing now. (The only DePalma I have ever actually avoided seeing.)

Don't Fuck With Opie
Ron Howard should totally have that on a tee shirt.

I would SO buy her book. I would go to the Minneapolis airport to buy it.