"But the lack of a proper Einstein biopic probably has more to do with the wide breadth of his accomplishments and adventures than a lack of interest in them"

FDR could have become President for Life! Imagine him, being President until his death! How different from the actual history!

How are kids today supposed to understand what Clone High's Mr. B is referencing?

True, but it was interesting how it (and I suppose Taxi with Kaufman's Latka Gravas who likewise was a vaguely Yugoslavian immigrant) dealt with the issue of recent Eastern European immigrants in the pre collapse-of-communism era.

Never even heard of it, which is a bad sign given that it is nearly a decade old and had some big names like Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, and Phil LaMarr (Hermes from Futurama) doing the voice acting.

I had no idea that Mailer was an actor as well — I'll have to check out Ragtime sometime. I haven't read the book, but I did like Doctorow's The March, so I'm intrigued.

I mean, NASA had these Saturn Vs they weren't doing anything with, and moon-shots had stopped getting good TV ratings, so it really seemed a win-win for everyone.

It's actually an incredibly deep linguistic reference similar to how Tolkien represented different Westron dialects by English ones in The Lord of the Rings. The British-accented imperials represent one dialect of Galactic Basic and the American-accented rebels another. That, or Lucas just couldn't be bothered…

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

See also "socialist", "liberal", "intellectual", etc.

News flash from someone who actually had albums on vinyl because that's what albums were in the early 1980s — vinyl *always* sounds like shit and the act of playing vinyl records degrades them even more (except maybe playing them with those fancy no-touch laser turntables). That's why we moved to CDs in the first…

But you made it through the Purge alive, I'm glad to hear. I guess the dog didn't make too much noise.

I kind of wish the movie had been about the early 19th century, frankly. I enjoyed the movie (and the book as well), but Fawcett was such a fraud in reality. Both the book and movie make him out to be a doomed hero, but he really wasn't.

That's just what a sarcastic person would say!

Elizabeth I (and II for that matter) was very young and pretty at the start of her reign. She just aged as people do over time. Our idea of Elizabeth I as a old woman is largely because we often see her in movies about Shakespeare and when he was at his height, Elizabeth was old.

I'm not surprised that a set of D&D tie-in novels took ideas from elsewhere. That sounds like something from his Elric novels, right? I could never get into those although I liked Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius books.

Great lampshading along the lines of "What year do you think it is?" "Good question!" in the early seasons when the Cold War plus cellphones made a lot of people wonder when it was supposed to be set.

Like Jim Anchower, she's a very thinly parodied version of a real type of person who exists in real life. The humor is all in the similarity to people you know. Kornfeld, on the other hand, is an absurdist parody.

"It's like those pizza places that claim to have the best pizza in the world. What do you think, they have pizza contests? Have you ever been to a pizza contest?"

And in the (understandably forgotten) 1993 Sharon Stone movie Sliver.