How can you capture the essence of Casino without including the Screaming Crackwhore on the poster?

I wouldn't go so far as to say attractive. He does have a certain Ted Bundy-esque charm about him, though.

Purple Rose pairs really well with the less-proclaimed Radio Days, which he made two years later. Woody's the king of 1930's nostalgia.

I actually did the exact same thing, got through to the Miscaviage years of Going Clear and then re-watched The Master . What struck me, now knowing much more of the life of Hubbard, was how little background, almost zero, we get about Lancaster Dodd, but that what we see of Freddy's life before he meets Dodd, kind…

The thing about Enter the Dragon is it was made by English speakers. If you haven't already and you really want to give yourself a chance at getting into old-school martial arts films, I suggest the output of the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios. Stuff like 36 Chambers of Shaolin, or Five Fingers of Death aka King…

Also, "Harlem" by Bill Withers:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

To me, Night Shift is his best writing. The magazine editors who published those stories kept King's prose on a tight leash.

I'm in the middle of that one too. I didn't know much about L. Ron Hubbard before I started beyond "started a cult, sailed around the world avoiding taxes/authorities". The details of his life, and the depths of his mental illness and how it mapped itself onto his crazy organization, are staggering. A paranoid…

I hear you on the Pekar sadness. He's one of those personalities who, though I obviously never met him, now that he's dead I actively miss him like I would someone I know in real life.

"The French Quarter? Do you really expect me to perambulate about in that sinkhole of vice?"

These commenters must be in league with the wretched minx Myrna Minkoff! That liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion…

I had no idea the goofy Dean Martin films were based on a serious spy series… they sound like good stuff, the kind of thing that could actually use a modern film remake being more faithful to the books.

You gotta stop cringing at everything Jones says and start enjoying everything he says. A lot of that book's genius is the dialogue.. Jones is probably the second-best character after Ignatius. (And I think it's fairly clear by the end of the book that Toole held the Jones character in high regard…)

I love the Flashman books! I just finished "Flash for Freedom!", which I highly recommend. Flashman gets mixed up in the slave trade where he must play the role of a slaver, finds himself in America, and has a brief encounter with Honest Abe, among other adventures… a very politically incorrect installment, it goes…

Did anyone say "A Confederacy of Dunces" yet?

I know it's a more obvious pick, but no love for After the Gold Rush? There's not a single song, note for note, that I'd skip or change

Yes - Dinner Party, to me, is the last episode of The US Office I would label as "Classic". Also one of the few times it felt like they were trying to consciously beat the UK version in cringe humor, and they pulled it off.

NBC needs to re-animate Andy Kaufman's corpse and give him the show:  http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Every night's show can open with The Vagina Joke Monologue.

He can't hear the laughter anymore…