'Synchronicity II' is about the limbic system:

Very young teenagers, too— I was shocked when I did the math.

Another better case for the prosecution: Omar

OK—the guy's name is Toht. The comic book told me he was played by Ronald Lacey, but it was my father who laughed when he first spoke on screen the first time we saw it and pointed out that he was doing a Peter Lorre impersonation. "Who's that, Dad?" "He was a German actor in the olden days who always played bad…

Technically that was his coming out. Throughout much of Culture Club's run Boy George was cagey and coy about his sexuality in interviews—Everybody knew of course—but the official line was Don't Ask Don't Tell years before that phrase existed.

'Gallipoli'

I'm not sure I agree that it drags in the middle—because by then I'm committed and there are so many diversions—all those chapters on cetology and the practical day to day of whaling are just as full of jokes as the rest of it. My favorite is the paragraph where he ponders why other sailors and especially pirates have…

I had a professor in college who called it 'The Baton also Rises' because the last image is a dead giveaway.

'The Big Sleep' famously does not make sense. 'The Maltese Falcon' does—although there are ambiguities at the end. 'Citizen Kane' famously hinges on a narrative impossibility—who heard his famous last word? But then 'Moby Dick' has a first person narrator seem to see and hear things that happen when he's not around.

"Walk like an Egyptian" is now slang for "march on your tyrannical despot's palace".

Jean Shepherd also had a radio show and if you ever get the chance to hear his monologues from that, they're a bit like Garrison Keillor without the rose-colored glasses.

The real crack in the Boomer facade of the Keatons was the double standard they maintained about Mallory, especially her poor dating choices. Yes, Nick is a bad decision—but he's HER bad decision. I like 'Family Ties' though. I have the full length theme song on my iPod and it's an endearing midtempo soul duet with a…

Discovering that Greased Lightening is "a real pussy wagon" was a shock. And the fact that they used the song (sightly altered) in the children's movie 'Planet 51' was also a shock. But as bad as that movie is, There are worse things you could do… (I've always had a crush on Stockard Channing).

I have a mala hanging from my rearview window that has hanging from it both a dharmachakra and a tiny little plastic swastika that you almost have to know is there to see. When I got it, I thought seriously about trying to snap it off, but then I decided the Nazis have ruined it long enough (And anyway, if Michael…

I've often called it "Talk Amongst Yourselves: the Feature" and wondered why they even bother with a question. You may as well throw out a topic and open the floodgates—but of course, that's now the feature called "For Your Consideration". I don't really have a problem with either feature, except when the questions…

I'm not arguing about "thinking". I'm arguing about whether thinking or intelligence alone constitute sentience—which I believe was your original question ("But is there a difference between sentience and beating the Turning test?"). Ultimately, it is not a question for science in the first place, no matter how…

And 'Pull up to the Bumper' is about parking.

It's never been a secret. I figured out the Christian allegory in 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' when I saw the cartoon version as a kid. Which I could either pat myself on the back for or give credit where credit is actually due—that very effective cartoon adaptation.

But OP—that kind of was why Indiana Jones hated the Nazis if clearly not why Speilberg did. There was some knowledge, a lot of rumors and some deniable allegations of where the Nazis where heading, but at the time when the film was set, few in America paid much attention to it. But I knew as a kid about the Nazis…

I thought that too until I actually read the question—I thought it was going to be another round of "Better Late than Never". And there are similarities, but there's a subtle distinction.