"The anti-Jeff Bridges"

And see, I read it not as a collective noun, but as an idiomatic description—ala King of Kings or Lord of Lords,—of some great, uber-punk, the Punk of all Punks, to which all the punks were subordinate. I was picturing the midnight summit sequence of 'The Warriors' but with Bronson as the shooter.

Some Art just attracts crazy people (like 'Catcher in the Rye' or 'The Fountainhead') but Art don't make people crazy (although a lot of crazy people make Art).

I would cite The Shining as the perfect example of a director taking a good novel and making from it a great movie. Everything that doesn't work in the book is (to use Delbert Grady's, as it were, terminology) corrected or left out, and everything that was added is an enhancement.

And that LA scene is full of weird stories about old Hollywood colliding with the youth culture of the Sunset Strip—and finding little in common apart from a fundamental embrace of all out decadence. I suspect that this doc is about a mellower, slightly later time and place, but I'd love to see something about that…

I don't know how that works—all three of the 'Red Riding' films have been listed as being available for streaming starting today, but the second and third have been up for over a week and the first one finally came online on Saturday.

or better yet:

What's good about the Soul Train DVD's (having seen a bunch of this material recently on Comcast onDemand): the dancing, the fashion, Sarah Dash of Labelle.

"Still is today, for that matter"

I think Johannes Kepler is prescient (as usual—although Tycho Brahe made better slot cars)—I would never rent or Netflix 'Hollow Man II' if it meant waiting for it in place of something better—but it keeps showing up on my Netflix streaming recommendations and I'm pretty sure I'll end up watching it at some point.

If only the new Crow film would be about the robot from the Satelite of Love.

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I tried the first Mafia game but gave it up quickly because, like the GTA series, it relies too much on driving. You expect that in a game about car theft, but there's a lot more intrigue to be explored in the Mafia world, and since I've been terrible at driving games since Pole Position there waqs…

"Cooper, there for his name and reputation, but not terribly important most of the time"

Bob Barker is alive? Shit. First Dabney Coleman and now this.

Hey there's no call for that blue language, sir.

"borderline inappropriate for kids because they loaded it…with politically correct crap"

I don't know. Pete's had petty temporary rivalries before—he was going to blackmail Don once, remember—and was able to let them go when they were no long practical. I think we can all agree that Cosgrove is a good guy to have on hand but he's not as thoroughly developed or central a character as Pete (or even Harry…

Hating to be that guy and hating that guy for being that guy and hating that guy for hating to be that guy and using that guy's "hating to be that guy" guise (and hating it) is a little like someone throwing himself at himself, and hating himself for it.

Nothing's funnier or more disarming than a Peggy non-sequitor "I'm hungry!" Not even an urbane Roger witticism or a curt Don turnabout.

Actually, the facade is beginning to slip a little on the show's dialogue, at least as far as I'm noticing a lot more 21st century phrasing and idiomatic usage. It's hard to put your finger on sometimes—unless there's a clear anachronism (and don't think I didn't look up "Pebbles and Bam Bam" to see if that was one—it…