Gandalf, I've engaged legal counsel, and suggest you do the same.

Every story's better with white dudes. Right now I'm working on an adaptation of Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'—but from the point of view of two American missionaries (hoping for Chris Pine and Steve Carrell . . . but will accept Andrew Garfield and Seth Rogan) who attempt to set up a church, only to wind up…

Also, 'Into the Wild' sucks balls. Right down to those fucking awful Eddie Vedder songs.

She's not alone.

He is a dumb little fucker, it's true.

She's brilliant. This is excellent news.

Their minor-key take on 'Sweet Child of Mine' (which as one commentator notes, really should have been called 'Sweet Child of Minor') actually makes me like that song for the first time in my life.

As someone who likes scarves . . . I applaud that scarf.

Don't. Just watch this one again instead. It's about ten thousand times better.

It's been a long time since I read the Leskov. But I much prefer this ending. Reminded me of Herzen's famous quote, 'We are slaves because we are masters.'

A superb film. But it's not based on Shakespeare; it's from Nikolai Leskov's novella.

Yeah.

I once (and this was around 1987, so it's excusable—barely) called a guy in my office a retard without realizing that he was, in fact, one of the Special Needs staff hired under an affirmative action plan for people with disabilities. (He was chortling loudly, long after everyone else had stopped laughing; I didn't…

It's called The Apatow Arc.

Jesus' Son is one of the greatest book-to-film adaptations I've ever seen.

Hard to know what's better: the look on his face as she lays into him, or her virtuosic shift in tone at the end as she gives the time-call.

Know a lot about my upbringing, do you, JF2?

'Ekphrastic'.

She's not a racist—at least, not consciously. She just has the extreme solipsism that an unexamined life of unfettered privilege affords.

Yep. He's an excellent director.