I know that Bobotts—but when you describe it at the most basic level, especially when it was still early on in its first season—it's hard not to see where the comparisons come from.

Glenn Frey must be a feminist because he's got at least seven women on his mind.

I don't think Hollywood's nostalgia mining is a result of critical reappraisal—I think it's a result of a lack of imagination, creative bankruptcy and a reliance on proven properties and known quantities. Nobody greenlit the 'A-Team' movie because it was culturally important then or now, they did it because the…

Don't Forget
It was this movie that really put Brad Pitt's star (and his abs) on the Hollywood map.

If this is a Dorothy Parker thread I'ma throw out my favorite Parker quote:

Dammit, I was going to say it was about the life of the mind, Clark.

You have absolutely no obligation to remember, like, or give another chance to this or any other movie. Do what you will.

I still use the phrase "you know, for kids" whenever I present an idea that falls on deaf or misunderstanding ears. And nobody knows what it means either.

There would have to be a more substantial role for fantasy in it that I don't think is there. I don't mean magical Negroes—I mean Terry Gilliam's entire career is about the role fantasy and imagination play in the fullness of human experience—So you'd need maybe an extended dream sequence in which we see the…

Dissent! 'The Big Lebowski' is not their best film or even their best comedy—only their best-loved. Their best film is 'Miller's Crossing'. Their best comedy is 'Raising Arizona'. People love to shit on 'The Ladykillers' and 'Intolerable Cruelty' but 'Burn After Reading' is pretty weak too—practically a placeholder on…

'Intolerable Cruelty' was fine. 'Ladykillers' was OK. Hardly mars the Coen brand. Even the worst Coen Bros. film has something to offer movie lovers.

TV criticism becomes more or less worthwhile as TV itself does. For years—decades actually—TV was recognized as a wasteland with a little outstanding cream floating on the top. That cream—whether it was 'The Twilight Zone', or 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' 'Soap' or 'Hill Street Blues', or 'Cheers' or 'Miami Vice' got…

Didn't 'Weeds' predate 'Breaking Bad' by a couple of years? I remember telling friends about 'Breaking Bad' and their response was—"Oh, so it's like 'Weeds', right?" And I thought about it and said, "Well yeah, but with darkness and consequences."

"95% of it is stuff that no thinking person would consider wasting time with"

Network Dinosaurs
On-demand providers are really shaping the future of both TV and film. My parents are examples of the cinephile seniors the article mentions, but they also stream Netflix a lot—as do I—and we are watching things we never would have rented or gone to theaters to see, or even had the chance to see…

Murray—As Duke Ellington said (and I have engraved on my iPod), "If it sounds good, it is good".

Unwashed—I didn't mean to suggest that Post-Punk was some kind of refuge for ousted Punks—I just meant that the aesthetic of that British class of '77—which was always a more concrete thing to begin with, rooted as it was in The Pistols (and to a lesser extent, The Damned) and the thousands of bands that emulated…

Again—totally arbitrary continuity.

The thing I recall was that there was no internally consistency. From episode to episode the rules would change. But I agree about the intro—and the overall potentiol—I mean Panthro was like some kind of Ninja Isaac Hayes, wasn't he?

Gummi Bears? What about the Care Bears—I think they even lived on a rainbow cloud or something, that is if they weren't busy gentrifying some part Lidsville. This is why I think I gave up TV for the duration of the 90's—things were beginning to bleed together.