There's a hidden Philip Seymor Hoffman reference in my other post.

Shtyy for the article to mention nepotism without mentioning Justine Bateman on "Family Ties," not Family Ties (proper punctuation). Amazingly enough, Orphan Black stole an idea from that episode of Arrested Development:

Shtty for the article to say Katz "hasn't written much according to IMDB." We all know from watching Louie that a lot of a writer's career is punch-up sessions on other people's work, and circulating scripts through development hell. Besides which, he's a playwright. Now does he get another $45,000 for his foundation? …

David Bowie did an interesting job of it in Basquiat. But Dennis Hopper as his sidekick Bruno Bischofberger was epic.

I thought it was Smash.

Semiotics is not about language, but whatever.

Tombstone scene shows she's 21 years 6 months. Reviewer did not review. Also, she's playing cheerful, not like her other roles.

Wow they really like Ninotchka. I only came to it after the ultra-the-top Jet Pilot with the same plot but Janet Leigh and John Wayne in bleeding technicolor. It's far from a good movie but one line has stuck with me: Yuma. It's hard to explain. They fly planes together. I didn't realize Ninotchka had been such a hit…

Here I'll piss off the rest of the world by saying soccer should borrow some rules from basketball so they will score more. No offsides, but a three second rule inside the paint.

Maybe fine, wine, cabernet ?

Don't worry she's a glamorous Western journalist stuck there because she tried to do something good. Then she starves. Interesting thing is, it really is a Russian film.

All walls are Great, if the roof does not fall. - Bjork in that Lars van Trier movie. Pop surrealism, meet pop Schoenberg. You can say that kind of stuff about people who say that kind of stuff.

Lack of bites sounds good.

I'll never forget when he went on Letterman and started sputtering about the definition of "pulp fiction," be it pre- or post-war, or something arcane, after the New Yorker had just gotten it wrong. Because he didn't even mention the New Yorker.

Thanks to Col. Hogan's heroes.

That's a good museum.

There was also money to be made. It's rarely discussed now, but it was a common conspiracy theory between the wars that Vickers was selling armaments to both sides in the run-up, etc. Later conspiracy theories got a bad name and it seems to have been dropped (if it was ever accurate).

Except it basically caused the Vietnam War. The love for MacArthur when he defied the president and got fired was absolutely seething. He got a ticker tape parade and a joint session of Congress.

WWI? La Grande (fcking) Illusion. It's the easiest to enjoy art film ever made. By Jean (fcking) Renoir. Citizen Kane is boring! Rules of the Game is boring! The Grand Illusion is a starter drug for engaged black and white French cinema. Like Casablanca. But in French. That Kubrick thing is boring too. La Grande…

Well if you want it to star women, you're in luck. Leningrad(2009), with Mira Sorvino, dir. A Russian. http://www.imdb.com/title/t…