Yeah, Amy Phillips didn't go much further than the dead-on impression of Tilly. Even when Auckerman tried to feed her stuff about poker or her sister. Oh well.

Same here. I'm especially interested in all the marketing tie ins and merchandise that become landfill and then, much later on, rare collectibles. My favorite example of this is the huge catalog (literally, a mail order catalog was published) of merchandise for sale related to Cutthroat Island. I'm still curious to…

In the Harrison bio that Scorsese just did, Clapton cops to it. They were wife swapping swingers long before Patti left Harrison. That's part of the reason they were all able to stay friends. It just wasn't as big a deal as it looked from the outside.

Inevitable whining: The DVDs and commentaries are great, but they tend to tell the same 5 stories over and over again. How many times do they have to talk about that one time they camped overnight for a dawn shoot? And they avoid talking about some of the elephants in the room, like what happened to Stuart Townsend…

Ha ha. And I just googled her to see what she's been up to. She's a pot grower and writer now.

I remember one interview with the lead actress, where she obviously had it with being asked "how scary was it working on the movie?" all the time. Her answer: "It was just some rocks and sticks on the ground. It wasn't scary at all. It's called acting."

It's kind of odd how panicky the Beatles management was about cranking albums out, especially when you compare it to the Beach Boys' output. They held albums back because they were afraid of glutting the market with more than two albums per year.

Too bad it turned out that he's such an asshole that he hasn't been able to get anything else off the ground.

The Abyss, and it's not even close. I highly recommend any of the "deluxe" editions which include extensive making-of documentaries. They're mostly the cast, crew and producers talking about the hell on earth that was the production. It still has the reputation of being one of the hardest shoots of all time.

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Knights of the Old Republic. It also happens to be both one of the best Star Wars games and RPGs ever.

All's fair in love and war, son.

Beyond some basic strategy, doesn't dominoes come down to luck?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who prefers "good" character playthroughs. My first playthrough is always good, my second is evil (just to see what the other path looks like) and almost all subsequent playthroughs are good.

It's funny. I'm totally on Mordin's side on that one, so it hurts me when the game calls me a renegade for agreeing with him.

Can't watch it at work, but that better be the "Mordin sings Gilbert & Sullivan" scene. I would also accept the "Mordin gives sex advice" scene.

Seeing as, statistically speaking, they're likely to be high functioning sociopaths, odds are good that they'll turn on each other pretty quickly and burn each other, rather than cooperate and build something.

It sounds like you don't understand what austerity means in this context. It means cutting government spending NOW, in the short term, in the midst of a contractionary period. That is why it is the diametric opposite of stimulus spending.

Although there's a lot of competition, I think my favorite scene in the movie is when they sit around a table and hash out the rules of the bet. Just one long game as a couple of smart, cunning men try to angle each other.

What Evel and Idiotking said.

This just goes to show how far to the right the conversation has gone. ANY austerity in a period of contraction is economic suicide. This is basic, incontrovertible economics. Yet that's all anyone talks about. No one is seriously contemplating the simple measures that would do the most to pull us out of this…