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Same here. The buzzer timing is everything. Unless you're super lucky and your opponents suck (i.e. don't know squat), it all comes down to who has the buzzer timing down. If you pay attention, you can see that when the questions are easy and everyone is furiously clicking away, it's the returning champion who buzzes…

Except that he's really not.If you dig deeper than Huntsmann willingness to acknowledge facts such as climate change and the political untenability of gaybashing, you'll see that he's pretty much the same kind of warmongering, deregulating corporate religious nut that the rest of the mainstream GOP is. He just looked…

I thought it was going to be "pleas," as in processing all the guilty/not guilty pleas the company has to file or saying no to all the desperate pleas from GNB's victims.

Did anyone else think that Barney's "truth-telling" drunkenness was a con by him? I thought for sure he was setting them up for something or other.

Fun fact: Steve Martin was originally supposed to play the FBI agent but ended up as the mob guy because they couldn't get whichever heavy they had in mind for the role.

William Hickey! Late, great character actor.

"Credence"? What more credence does a story need than a fucking videotape of R. Kelly peeing on an underage girl?

It was on cable last night so I watched it again for the 100th time.

Yet the writer received nothing on his back end deal because Forrest Gump "never made a profit."

As someone who routinely sees films' actual costs and revenues, I'm calling bullshit on Forbes' methodology. More often than not, there's a huge gulf between what gets reported in the media and what the real numbers actually are. Forbes certainly didn't have access to this highly sensitive information. Their numbers…

Any number of reasons. My boundless speculation of the possibilities include:

Studio suits have had a hardon for Ryan Reynolds for years, for some reason. I guess they identify with his frat-cool douchery that they wish they had themselves.

Kids couldn't care less but casting known names helps add "legitimacy" to a project and instant trust, goodwill, etc. This is true of non-animated films as well. However, it's definitely not worth it to the final product or budget to pay $10 million to Angelina Jolie to voice a cartoon tiger when there are hundreds of…

Because, if she didn't have him murdered outright, she at least fed his insecurities and addictions, which drove him to suicide. No joke, many in Cobain's circle, including the rest of Nirvana, thought Love was bad news from day one and that she was a terrible person to have in his life. Her daughter and the rest of…

Sports Night. My favorite Aaron Sorkin series. It was shortlived so you can actually get through the whole series in a couple of days. Which you probably will since it's so addictive. Plus, it ends with [SPOILER] Agent Coulson shitting on ABC for its shabby treatment of the show.

I'm assuming she got the orientation of the clavicle wrong.

Who knows? Maybe. But I'm talking about when Xander left her at the altar for no dramatically believable reason.

Blew off the truck load of work I had to do (I've worked the past 3 weekends) to binge catch up on Agents of Shield, Masters of Sex, Boardwalk Empire and Walking Dead.

Xander/Anya is a great example of the Whedon trope of breaking happy couples for no good reason.