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The Elusive Robert Denby
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I think it's great the first Sinister Six story was about the villains teaming up but then moronically deciding to take on Spider-Man one-by-one, throwing the whole team concept out the door.

That's pretty darn cool. Kind of a Warholesque portrait in its color use.

The "mean, moody and magnificent" label was put on Best by the Merseybeat journalists; the people who knew him before his time in the Beatles said he wasn't mean and wasn't any more moody than any other teenager on the scene.

Ringo was also the one most visibly affected by the Beatles breaking up. Seemed to be the most reluctant to walk away.

Examples? (As David Bowie once said: It's not who does it first. It's who does it second.)

Poor Pete Best. Definitely Ringo's inferior as a drummer, but good for a young, high-energy, up-and-coming band.

Agreed. I could have sworn it was McCartney itself.

"John, meanwhile, was telling his bandmates he was Jesus Christ."

Which quietly lifts a line ("I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man") from "Baby Let's Play House", sung by Elvis Presley.

It's kind of boring, in my opinion. Tries to force the humor and has an idea so BIG it's not that interesting.

The Republican Party used to be a coalition like the Democratic Party, one that commanded the loyalty of George Murphy and Everett Dirksen, who voted for the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which published an editorial so virulently opposed to it it's hard to read today. But the

Alas, They Might Be Giants are not on the ticket in 2016.

I think there's been far more litigation about what constitutes freedom of speech & the press over the last 200 years than there has over what the right to bear arms means, and that gives the First Amendment a flexibility the Second lacks because of the relative absence of judicial opinion about it.

True. They have a hive mind.

It sounds like the film lets us be frank about Frank.

There's a PhD student out there waiting to write a paper about the authoritarian tendencies in the Law & Order franchise. The only honest characters in the show work for law enforcement, and everyone else (doctors, the media, artists, realtors, video game players, etc.) is at bottom a selfish or self-involved hustler.

More day at the zoo clips, pls

Yeah, that's what you think! I'm getting my Alcubierre Drive set up, and once I put this antimatter in th— (Explodes)

Sounds like Emmerich wants a shot at a Watchmen remake.

William Quantrill was an evil, child-killing son of a bitch.