NBC could easily have dumped the pilot.  She was competing with the creator of "West Wing" to get on the air.  They already had Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" — covering the same territory — which was supposed to be the sure thing, and her show was seen as the risky one (the pilot script wasn't nearly as…

They should not just book bands that play well on TV but if booking for SNL, bands that can play well in SNL's notoriously awful music stage.  It benefits certain kinds of bands, and that's fine, but to not have a studio that's able to morph for the many different kinds of band that are booked is shortsighted. …

Did it say that last night?  Now I feel quite foolish.

Radiohead released Ok Computer after the mid-90s.

So I've been listening to some of the The Nerdist podcasts and am confused.  When Hardwick is by himself with a guest (like the David Tennant interview) the show seems so much better.  The interviews are more in-depth, the guest is more relaxed, and Hardwick himself has room to be genuinely funny (as opposed to his…

So Jason Heller was in junior high school when Joshua Tree came out (being March of 1987) and became a punk rocker and graduated high school by the time Rattle & Hum came out (being October of 1988)?

I have no idea what he really feels, but Probst's seeming preference for Alpha Male types over the years, matched with his calling a group of adult women "6th graders" didn't sit well.  I usually get a big kick out of the way he stirs the pot, but this did come off really condescending.  Not your best moment, Probst.

He was fantastic. He seems in a great place right now which is fun to see (also liked his distinction between what he does and what Letterman does — or at least used to do.)

Homicide: Life on the Street was a book written by Baltimore police reporter David Simon.  It was the basis for the NBC show that Tom Fontana ran and which was one of the best network dramas of its age.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio!  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio!

Whoops!  It was late when I posted.  Almost Famous is fantastic (even if I remember not liking the airplane scene, even if yes, it was based on a real event.)

The instant hate seemed really silly and over-the-top.  Maybe it's who they cast or how they edit, but it made me much less interested in any of these people.  Just nastiness from the start.  I'm giving it one more episode but if its more of the same, it's not for me.

It's written by Cameron Crowe.  Which never gets mentioned along with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anyhing, Singles and Jerry Maguire (being the last great movie he wrote.)

I kind of thought last week he was saying his band was awesome because they use the traditional instruments and the recording techniques of traditional rock and roll.  It came off like a modern day "disco sucks" kind of speech.

I remember loving a mini-series where the X-men fought/teamed up with the Micronauts.  As I remember, Xavier went nuts and became kind of a dick (this was before he did that regularly.)

I'm going to assume you're being ignorant and not simply cruel.  Clinical Depression has a strong biological component that causes the person to feel and think differently than the healthy norm.  Thankfully medication combined with talk therapy can help many people.  This combo doesn't help everyone and sometimes the…

Yeah, the type of singing that Whitney Houston made popular is among my least favorite.  Amazing technique but hard for me to connect with emotionally.  She sold a gazillion albums so clearly I'm in the minority (and American Idol has been a ratings monster for promoting that same type of singing, so again I'm in the…

Can the petition also include a clause that all the Wes Anderson movies have to be co-written by Wilson?  Because those are the good ones.

But there is a great collection of Pogues B-sides!  It came out in 2008 and is called…

Pulp.