Showgirls is hilarious — though it can also be very dull, once you get past how its aiming for grit results solely in laughable luridness.

The older sister (Susan).

I can't wait for all the controversy the casting of this show will generate!

The kids were brilliant, so I don't have a problem with the story being about them. The adult characters exist as complements to their story.

The Room is glorious because Wiseau is utterly convinced that he's making a great movie — in the best tradition of bad movies, from Ed Wood to Showgirls. Now that Wiseau is in on the joke, so to speak, I can't imagine that a sequel would work. Intentionally trying to make camp never works.

Historical inaccuracy isn't inherently a problem — plenty of my favourite historical fictions are complete nonsense, historically speaking. Inaccuracy only really bothers me in two situations: when you subjectively think that the real story would have been a better drama or more suited to what they were trying to do…

"You shouldn't leave the castle, which is why you're out here completely on your own, with nobody else in sight but this hunting party that just happened to come across you!"

It's actually the twist ending from the original book, more or less.

I saw him as Coriolanus some years ago.

A.A. Dowd's opinion is distinctly in the minority.

"Cost" is quite regularly used in the sense in which I used it.

Do you dispute that many of the people who illegally downloaded music would have bought it had they had no other option?

Do you really think that, even if the industry had been more proactive on digital distribution (which I agree, they weren't fast about), there wouldn't have been an enormous drop off in revenue from people getting music for free? Digital theft is easy and largely anonymous, removing most of the traditional incentives…

Bands did start to work more with the format as it developed, but seriously, every album has tracks that people rarely if ever listen to. Album filler is a universal concept. That's why if you look at any album on iTunes you'll see massive disparities between how often an individual track is purchased, unless it's…

Universities do name stuff (including the universities themselves) after people and corporations who give them money.

Damnit, you spoiled the surprise ending.

I think he just wants to work in Hawaii.

And yet people aren't listening to less music. They just got a way to get it for free, hence, the collapse of album sales.

There are any number of ways to rent or buy movies online now, often struggling to make real money.

Albums have almost always consisted of a few songs that people really want to listen to and a bunch of other stuff that they get with the package.