I wonder how the scripts work on this show. Do they come up with an outline and the actors improvise? I watch the show on HBOGo and there are always outtakes, mostly someone riffing. I think it also has to do with sometimes things being hit or miss. I liked the episode and laughed but it didn't fire on all cylinders.

I know it would be ruinous if Guilfoyle and Dinesh actually became real friends, but I have to admit that my heart fluttered a little when he asked Dinesh to join him. I thought it was a holdover from when Jared joyfully exclaimed he saw their friendship.

He could have lost all his shares or their value in punitive damages as opposed to just the debt. $713K isn't small claims court. If he was sued, they'd sue for the amount plus court costs, lawyers' fees, emotional damage. If all the creditors came together in one suit, it could be much worse.

Yeah, a streaming site is coming in November. It also means that Hulu is losing Criterion. I like Hulu (everyone pisses on it and I don't know why), but having the Criterion Collection was one of the reasons I joined.

It also precludes the Academy actually appreciates film as opposed to either patting itself on the back for its belief system or giving an award to an old-timer who is going to die soon.

Yeah, Claude Rains never gets any credit. I think it is because he made it look too easy and he didn't do the Hollywood Thing, instead living on a farm in PA. But I think he is one of the best actors of that era. I watch Casablanca more for his performance (also because he gets off the best lines). Notorious would not…

As stunts they are equal. I think people would consider the one in Moonraker more dangerous because of the idea of falling without a parachute. Rick Sylvester's ski jump is beautiful but people don't consider it dangerous simply because of a parachute. Also, people don't ski near cliffs, but they do ride airplanes.…

"Happy Families" is a card game I used to play as a kid. There's four families and the object is to complete a family.

I could write about Bond films for years but The Spy Who Loved Me has the most fantastic opening credit sequence just for the gymnastics on the Luger alone. It has a great powerballad, probably the best ever, but it also has a great sing-song feel. You can picture the song being sung by all the patrons in a German…

I'll take mise-en-abyme. I can use synecdoche without fear of ridicule thanks to a good English teacher. I do not feel it applies to what I could not articulate earlier.

The opening provides a leitmotif (can such a thing be used in film? or did I misuse the term?). But I do disagree strongly with the idea that Capote is the superior film. PSH is an excellent actor, but the tricks used to make him diminutive take you me of the film. He assays well and goes beyond an imitation of…

He's a good actor. George Lucas is simply a lousy director and writer. He wanted a petulant child and didn't allow Christensen to act in the film. Even someone preternaturally talented like Portman couldn't make anything out of the films. Only Christopher Lee was worth a damn because he was experienced making shit…

I suppose you fancy the Holy See is Christian?

Heck, you'd need Indiana Jones to find God at Harvard.

If ever a title demanded its sequel utilize "Too", it was that one.

There's Grace and Frankie at least.

Oh Good Lord, he was brilliant in Amadeus. What a wonderful film.

In defense of Tom, he did fart Prospero's epilogue and it was at a time before Hollywood devoured kale like a horse.

I forgot he did The Name of the Rose.

What I find most hilarious about this movie is that F. Murray Abraham went from a Fruit of the Loom fruit (literally, he was a piece of fruit) to winning the Oscar³ for Best Actor and then basically didn't work. Sure, he got gigs, but with the exception perhaps of Finding Forrester, I cannot think of anything too…