The diner in Training Day is actually the one used in Se7en for the scene between Somerset and Mills' wife.

There is a frame that was used as publicity of the film with the both of them at the table.

My favorite movie. The performances, the action, the music, the lighting, everything about it is done about as flawlessly as can be done in a Hollywood movie. Some indie director, I forget his name, said that it basically is a story about family hidden deep inside a heist movie. For me that's what is so good about…

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This is an interview with Michael about both movies, with scenes from both.

I'm stunned more people aren't agreeing with you.

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Yeah, but apparently there's a pronounced and noticable drop in quality between the drink and the real thing.

At the very end of Sgt. Pepper.

What are you hoping for, a book club?

I'm guessing that's what the network pretends. I'm sure the people who run it aren't that disillusioned.

Thanks for reminding me of the impending Hannibal withdrawal coming shortly.

The broad strokes in social commentary from last season's AHS seem subliminal and subdued compared to the scene tonight with the governor.

Eating your fallen idols is the rub I'd imagine.

All the smart, intellectually sound television that I've watched in the interim between these two seasons has kind of drained my enthusiasm for the show.

If Warner/Chappell loses the suit, who do they pay?

That element alone of the show is tearing down what so many copycats of Silence and (to a lesser extent) Manhunter have done. Makes it all the more appropriate that this show is turning the tables in that way. Coming back to square one in a way.

Someone in a wrestling board I frequent said he would be a perfect Vince McMahon in a movie about his life. I maintain Gary Oldman would be the better choice, but I can't unsee Michael as a younger Vince now.

Dad wasn't around in my formative years when it comes to pop culture. When we did reconnect we've seen movies and hung out quite a bit since then. He did take me to a lot of movies as a kid, though. I had a few friends in high school who had the same taste in music I did, including one who's my bestie still now.

The one non-Zodiac-murder related scene I kind of wince at is Graysmith trying to remember all the stuff he read from the Vallejo files and writing it down in a diner across the street. I have a hard time memorizing things sometimes, I can't imagine the kind of mind-fuck something like that would put on me.

"(As festival reviews have noted, there’s no mention of the time Downey brought his gay, HIV-positive brother on the show—a ballsy move in which he tested the sympathy of his rowdy, proto-Tea Party audience.)"