In leather or otherwise
I don't go for blondes, so I never really cared one way or the other about her, but I sure could get used to a "Scarlet" Johansen.

IIron Man

Is that according to your memory, or one of your niece's?

Some people don't even "get" cable.

Oh I think the ending of 'Drag Me to Hell' managed to play it both ways— but I was kind of surprised, and in retrospect a little disappointed in it. Consider this:

"how the world works" is only one approach to film making, and a pretty rare one that I don't remember the Coen's ever taking. To cite the name of a once prolific commentot "We want are films to be beautiful, not realistic."

I took a lot of flack for saying so at the time—but I liked 'Watchmen'. I knew going in that it would never be the film I wanted it to be and that it would have to make certain compromises that are part of the translation process. I reread the book the day before, and weighed the various strands of the narrative and…

I have nothing but pleasant memories of acid, and would do it again— maybe too often—if I had a source for it. Those were the days. It's one thing to intuitively believe in nonduality, and another thing altogether to experience it.

Lady wearing housedress and curlers at her front door: What are you guys, some kind of linguists?

Waitaminnit—I've seen that! God, how is it possible that I've seen that?

Chimp-friend in a coma—I know, I know, it's serious…

I drank a few chocotinis in the bar at the top of the Hancock—It was night and there was an electrical storm coming, so you could see the whole city laid out and the wrath of god wrought upon it.

Isn't a woman too like a hooker likely a hooker?

Not sure why it is exactly, but if anyone has never been able to live down a legacy in ancient history its the Romans. Whatever you may think of Greece or the Greeks I'm betting you're able to accept that there is a modern nation called Greece—But I bet if you talk abut Rome or Romans, at least 90% of the people who…

"IF YOU GUYS SAT AROUND WATCHING THIS SHIT EVERY WEEK"

Vis-a-vis 'Hook'—remember how naturalistic the children's performances were in Spielberg's Close Encounters and (its unofficial sequel) E.T. (and fuck Tobe Hooper 'Poltergeist' also)? Remember how every sequence, every camera movement, every shadow and shaft of light contributed to an overall effect in 'Raiders of the…

I know all that Bone Boy, and believe me it is interesting (if you check my profile my favorite book is '10,000 Baby Names'—that is not a joke) but that's more or less etymology and not usage. My point is not about pronunciation shifts over time, but about the culture of naming itself—Why does a parent select one…

What "recent slide into mainstream filmmaking"? He's always been front and center in the mainstream, all the while cultivating that trademark Gothic Lite aesthetic of his. He may not have always strived for blockbuster success, and he's responsible for some of the weirdest imagery in the mainstream, but it's not like…

"a grand conspiracy to rob words of their meaning"

'Hook' is godawful—