Gran Torino would have been a strong note to go out on as an actor, but it's cool to see Eastwood giving his longtime associate a big assist for his directorial debut.

Gran Torino would have been a strong note to go out on as an actor, but it's cool to see Eastwood giving his longtime associate a big assist for his directorial debut.

Aaron Sorkin actually wrote Moneyball, so probably not.

Aaron Sorkin actually wrote Moneyball, so probably not.

You're thinking of the death of the Duke of Clarence in Richard III.  Richard II was just stabbed a bunch of times.

I think a Luke Cage/Iron Fist show would be a good fit for TV.

I think a Luke Cage/Iron Fist show would be a good fit for TV.

Field of Dreams reunion!

Field of Dreams reunion!

Read two Graham Greene novels over the weekend (The End of the Affair and The Quiet American), and started on Salman Rushdie's Shame.

Read two Graham Greene novels over the weekend (The End of the Affair and The Quiet American), and started on Salman Rushdie's Shame.

She posted that she had finally converted to Islam in one of her recaps, though she may have been doing Joan of Arcadia by then.

She posted that she had finally converted to Islam in one of her recaps, though she may have been doing Joan of Arcadia by then.

I've read too many of Sorkin's statements about the internet to think he's talking about just specific subsets (even discounting the issue of whether his spat was TWoP, which I think makes him look like an ass; the recapper he singled out later wrote a pretty scathing and accurate response to his ideas on art in The…

I've read too many of Sorkin's statements about the internet to think he's talking about just specific subsets (even discounting the issue of whether his spat was TWoP, which I think makes him look like an ass; the recapper he singled out later wrote a pretty scathing and accurate response to his ideas on art in The…

It's another Sorkin lecture to internet commenters he dislikes.

It's another Sorkin lecture to internet commenters he dislikes.

She was.  She was also a Muslim convert, and took issue with a lot of the discussion of Islam on the show.

She was.  She was also a Muslim convert, and took issue with a lot of the discussion of Islam on the show.

I'd like to believe that Jim asking Lisa out means that he has realized that Lisa > Maggie in all respects (she's nicer, hotter, more sensible, one can assume she's better at her job, because Maggie sucks at hers), and this is the end of that excruciating subplot, but unfortunately I know better.