Hovito Idol
For what it's worth, I actually had it—I had it in my hands, Marcus. Of course, I'm talking about the golden idol from the beginning of Raiders. It was the coolest thing in my lkife, next to having my son.
It was my 5th or so visit to Forrest Ackerman's mansion in the Hollywood hills. I always get so…

Also…
Is it just me, or is No Country beginning to enter 'overrated' territory just a bit? I mean, it was a great film, but is it really worthy of this American Idol-esque media blitzkrieg? I'm only saying it out of concern, because I don't want a backlash against such a fine film.

Christy Brown
Just because someone plays a character as big and hard, with personality plus, doesn't necessarily mean that they're mugging or hamming it up. It does occasionally (Al Pacino in nearly everything since Scarface, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys), but here you're way off base. In…

Better Normans
I always thought (well, not always—recasting a great film such as this hadn't occured to me until Gus Van Sant had already made his incalculably dumb decisions) Jeremy Davies or Adrien Brody would've made fine Norman Bates'. Too bad Michael Cera was too young (still is, actually), 'cause he would've…

Jonny Greenwood
..was totally snubbed. What a horseshit loophole, if it's true. That score was ingenious. Just imagine what it would have been like if it had been scored with, say, the gushing, swelling orchestration of something like Elizabeth. Wouldn't have had nearly as much punch.
It was truly and beautifully…

Sad
I saw every movie he was in—and no, I'm not a pederast. Larry Clarck probably is, though.
Anyway, he was talented. Not much range, as someone said earlier, but a certain presence that was always welcome.
True, Bully was underrated and under-seen. Apt Pupil was also underappreciated.