But Cat, it's not exploitation if a film is made sincerely and a portion of the audience only goes to assuage White guilt or for more prurient reasons. Lee Daniels is not responsible for who sees his movie for the wrong reasons so long as he made it for the right ones.

C'mon—it's only "TMI" if you, personally, can't handle it for some reason. Warren, if you disclose that you are a straight man dating a straight woman, is it TMI because I can't help but imagine in explicit detail all the sordid and embarrassing things you do to each other in the privacy of your own bedroom, bathroom,…

"Oscar Wilde was married and had kids"

For what it's worth, when I was in college in the early 90's, a lot of my friends were Gay and it was well-known that GLBA threw the greatest parties and dances. I remember I attended at least one in drag—I had shoulder length hair anyway, so I put it up with a ribbon, wore a lacy black blouse and cullottes, stockings…

I'm talking about Black women between ten and twenty years older than myself and I'm 37. Since I work in education in PG County Maryland, that's something like two-thirds of my colleagues.

Are you all sure that's just not his face?

But Stax is not played played much on the stations that inform the original criteria (except for Isaac Hayes)—I'm not disputing any artist's contribution to genre (Cropper), or whether they were positively influenced by that genre (let's say Joe Cocker or Steve Winwood), what this is really about is what Black women…

It may not be "about advertising", but it certainly depends on it. The show uses the setting of the advertising world to explore the lives of characters as they are impacted by the cultural changes of the 60's. In that respect it's not about advertising in the same way that 'Raging Bull' is not about boxing.

"I'm sorry but 9/11 in "DC" (keep in mind that the Pentagon isn't actually in the District) wasn't remotely comparable to 9/11 in NYC"

Well, using that "Classic Jams" radio rotation criteria I'd always given it to Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald—It's arbitrary, I know, but I might have to rethink it for Cropper. I wonder if I could sidestep the issue by creating an afterlife specifically for producers. Problem then is, what do you do about Phil…

Instead of mining obvious parallels in obvious ways (the way the original 'V' did—honestly there was nothing subtle about the Jewish kid joining the Visitor Youth), or creating something wholly original out of the material, the new version seems to have opted to incorporate David Icke's delusions in their totality:

ship design
I was surprised at how little improved the ship design was over the originals. The Mother Ships are just lumpier versions of the saucers of the original (although the effects were certainly better—I just watched a bit of the marathon overw on SyFy and all the establishing shots of LA with a ship looming…

Chess King! And after that we'll head over to the Merry Go Round.

It was very clinical—and surprising given how natural and expressive Hall's vocals (and especially his apparent improvisations on the fadeouts—now I'm not so sure they were improvised) are. On the one hand, I appreciate the businesslike approach, and can understand the implied grudge he seems to harbor over entering…

Why it worked—because if you strip away the 80's production values, at the core are some great songs with superb vocal delivery. And for my money, their best song is the full length version of "She's Gone" which manages to be both solid Philly Soul and something altogether different.

"on my list" not "lips", as in "of the best things in life".

Going with an old photo
That was a good choice. Oates doesn't wear a mustache any more and that's just weird.

I know it wasn't any kind of literal reference to Reubens—but as soon as I heard the name Mr. Herman I was thinking of the Bellhop line above, and then to have it followed so quickly by Pee Wee? I think someone's just making an inside joke.

'Allegro non Troppo' is a pretty good riff on the 'Fantasia' concept. It's not all uniformly great either, but the 'Bolero' and the the 'Valse Triste' parts are really effective.

"that little girl doing a jewish mom impression"—I do like that, but Spielberg treated his segment like an episode of his own 'Amazing Tales'—which was all treacly, warm-hearted and sentimental. The guy who made 'Jaws' and the terrific "abduction of Barry" sequence in 'Close Encounters' should have known that the…