Oh yeah — Carpenter figures out he's an alien; Burt Reynolds gives him the instructions for space travel and then does some kind of amnesia wipe on him so the sitcom doesn't turn into The Sparrow.

#CancelVitellius

You asked, and we delivered: 3 hours of instructions on the proper way to sacrifice a bird.

Yes, yes, but how does Smaug's coffee taste?

They're on tour; Frey and Henley own their publishing rights; less spending on cocaine.

I think it's more accurate to say Don Henley and Glenn Frey made $75 million; their agent made $20 million and Joe Walsh and Timothy Schmit received complimentary food and beverage service.

Rosario Dawson has chemistry with basically every actor she works with. She is the hydrogen of the movie industry.

Oh, the Hulk outside is frightful,
But Banner is so delightful,
And as long as Hawkeye don't know —
Black Widow, Black Widow, Black Widow.

Except we're talking about grownups who have seen heaping plates of vegetables available for their consumption, and decided instead to turn to the comfort candy of sports/celebrity/worldview confirmation etc. If serious reporting brought in lots of readers, the vast majority of news organizations would invest the…

Americans get exactly the media they want.

Statistically speaking, most American white men in their 30s are talking about how much they love No Fences.

Loved Hellbound; loved Cannonball; I could take or leave the rest of the Breeders' stuff.

That was just his early work. By the time of "Why Study Industrial Arts?" Harvey had moved onto to brighter interiors and less-mumbled lines.

"I give up, Hal! I surrender! What's the charge?"
"Ha ha ha! MANSLAUGHTER."

Proposed rule: anyone who uses the word "media" as a singular noun from now on must read every one of Instapundit's nasty, saber-rattling and astonishingly nonprophetic posts from 2002. Media is a ridiculously, hopelessly diverse space, and to insist all outlets report on everything the same is reductive, at best.

My God. The expansion of the media landscape is accelerating.

Fresh Prince was NEVER anything like Saved by the Bell; for its limitations, it was an intelligent show that had well-rounded characters. It may not have been world-beating television, but compared to Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince was The Wire.

We have a new front-runner for Comment of the Year.

If you look at their 80s games and compare them with what Infocom was doing, you can see Sierra was, in narrative terms, a step back. Personally, I found it interesting how Sierra proudly marketed the King's Quest games as family entertainment, but made sure each title contained several awful, horrific deaths for…

There's poor, and then there's Hollywood poor, when a plucky character struggles to make it on just $200,000 a year.