yeah, there's a lot of great dialogue in the film I didn't quote. I loved how fucking pleased with himself De Niro was after coming up with that joke when it's been a staple of bad stand-up routines since the beginning of time, and how nifty Murray thought it was as well. Clearly a guy who names his club Comic-Cazie…

Somebody has been beating the drum for Public Eye for a while. It may have been your goateed evil twin or your non-union Mexican equivalent.

yeah, he's great. He just about steals the film, which considering the level of talent on display is quite the accomplishment.

You've been banging the drum for this for a while now. It's not out on DVD but I'll try to track it down on video and check the holy living shit out of it. Like a motherfucker.

Scrooged was a big hit. Apparently O'Donoghue's original screenplay for it was really dark and funny and they lightened it up considerably.

I think Thurman is having sex with De Niro because she feels sorry for him and also because she thinks it's what Murray wants her to do, that's an implicit part of the bargain. De Niro is fumbling and unsure. I didn't think of his sex scene with Thurman as rape at all but it is disconcerting that Price wrote brilliant…

For some reason I remember it as being in black and white, but that might just be because it's so muted in its color scheme and incredibly grim. The memory; it's so very, very subjective, ya know?

Direct to DVD Purgatory is coming back. I've got a really long, very involved first paragraph for it written in my mind. It's just a fuckload of work but it'll probably be back within the next month.

Next week, friend. Persistence does pay off.

I'm thinking of launching it this Friday, and doing "Mad Dog and Glory" as the week's MYOF to raise expectations for the TV Club blog from "nonexistent" to "just barely existent".

It's a coming. I haven't actually written up that one yet but probably will sometime this week.

Yeah, it's a fascinating subject handled in a perversely unfascinating manner. There will hopefully be a great book written about Down Low brothers. This sure as shit isn't it.

Incidentally
I'm posting this on Labor Day in reverent homage to the proud workers who built this great country and their insatiable curiosity about Hip Hop's Down Low subculture.

remember really liking this about year and a half ago when I originally saw it in its original form. I thought it was probably Stone's best film. I wholly went in expecting to give it a good review but my enthusiasm dimmed as the film droned on endlessly. The grade kept dropping from an A- to a B+ and then further and…

none of his scenes made the original cut, which is weird, since he's one of the best things about the film.

It is 2 legit. To quit even.

The D are in the building and Rose McGowen pops up for about three minutes but neither had anything to do with Christ's plan for Stevie B, so I didn't bother mentioning them.

In John Gregory Dunne's The Studio
Gene Kelly is at one point set to direct an epic, big-budget Tom Swift movie. Instead he ends up directing "Hello, Dolly". The world is much richer for this switch (or at least Pixar is), though I'd love to see what Kelly would have done with this here novel. The big production…

The ending
I think in this piece I vastly underrated the ending. I don't want to imply that it was a bad or mediocre ending (though I pretty much did). It's a good, thought-provoking, ambiguous ending with a great final panel (I really enjoyed the Jonah Jameson parody, incidentally). I just thought it was…

I think we're all losing sight of what's really important here
Which is Jughead and his love of pizza. How does he manage to eat so much junk food yet remain so skinny?