I don't think Card has ever acted upon pedophilic urges, but yeah, there are riffs in  his fiction that suggests he has them.  And that may be why he despises homosexuality.  Because he himself is attracted to boys between the ages of 11 and 15,  he imagines that all gay men are.

Some of it is simplistic stereotyping.  Card loves showtunes and Broadway.  But so did my late dad (a widower who fucked a slew of hot women in their late teens and early twenties when I was in my my teens).  Hell, so do I, although I'm more selective about it than Card.  And like him, I was a "theater fag" in my…

By that, you mean the French Indochina arc, or the old mini-series that caused George Clooney to lose his interest in the character and got its editor fired?

People who remember Murphy's idiotic and illiterate posts on Usenet (does that even exist anymore?), a series of embarrassing public displays by a working professional that put Tony Harris's tweets to shame, know that the LXG film is the least of Murphy's sins.

O'Neal, you most-encrusted mockery of a man, what makes you think that Moore's ire at the LXG and V FOR VENDETTA films had anything to do with how bad they were as adaptations?  Yes, I know, Moore complaining about what DC Comics chose to do with his WATCHMEN characters is a bit rich, but his earlier complaints have…

And yes, as others have noted, animals with a pebbly or scaly texture are easier than furry ones.   Compare the rhinos in JUMANJI to the awful lions and monkeys.

There's an awful one in THE WOLFMAN (not the Chaney Jr. one; that had a deleted scene where Chaney wrestled a real bear, albeit not a giant Kodiak).

That was Bart the Bear. This is Bart Jr or Bart 2 or whatever his trainer calls him.  When Bart 1 died, they said his future replacement was quite a few hundred pounds smaller, but already bigger than Bart 1 was at the same age.

If he paid any attention to the AV Club, Martin Scorcese would say something similar.

Dye Dance's hair black (or iron grey rather than greying blonde) and he'd make a better Dracula than any of the rent boys like Jonathan Rhys Meyers who get cast these days.

(HORROR OF) DRACULA, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and THE WICKER MAN are better films than Jackson's sometimes effective but often ham-fisted Tolkien adaptations.  So are THE FOUR MUSKETEERS, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.  And THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, THE MUMMY and THE WHIP AND THE BODY are…

Also the best-ever Rochefort in the best-ever adaptation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS.

Yeah, it's really annoying that the career of the screen's greatest Dracula would be reduced to that. 

But are we really supposed to believe Michelle Rodriquez could hold her own in a fight with Gina?

They deepened her voice in much of HAYWIRE to make her sound more badass.  Her voice is unaltered in the opening scene, up to the point Channing Tatum throws coffee in her face.

Sadly, I did not.  No longer available via that site, apparently.

I believe that the great Leigh Bracket had at least as much to do with THE BIG SLEEP as Faulkner, although there was a lot of hands in that pie.  Hawks, who thought she was a man because of her hardboiled pulp stories, called her in to work with (and rewrite) Faulkner.  At one point they were adapting alternate…

Whichever one we go with, we've got to import 'em from England now.

Richard Matheson was a great horror writer, but I hate the elements that he and director Dan Curtis introduced to the story in their TV COUNT DRACULA (not the great BBC one, the one with Jack Palance), —  i.e., that Mina is reincarnation of the Count's wife and that the Count used to be Vlad the Impaler — that Coppola…

I think the Boucher story is entertaining and fine, but Gaiman could have included a much better werewolf story in Peter Beagle's "Lila the Werewolf," which ISN'T in here (maybe he thought it was reprinted too much already).