Well, I've been saying it - Pitt's become the new Clooney (now starting to recognize the outside world, politics, but taking it without hysteria), Clooney's become the new Connery (becoming more suave as he gets older), and Connery just plain has to die to make room.

On the flip side, proportionally, comedians tend to have messed up childhoods. They become comedians because, largely, you either find something funny about it, or you go be a dock worker and drink yourself to an early grave.

Maybe somehow we can switch Andy Rooney with Ed Rooney.

It wouldn't be the first time
That's why you get shit written down. Even then, he'll lose.

Boyd truly thought that the Hand of God would protect him as he was doing the Lord's work. Sure, there would be casualties on the field, but to have them gunned down before they even got into the full swing of the work? The poison is still flowing; it's not gone by a long shot. And at the first signs of blowback, his…

Regardless of subtlety or the lack thereof, what sets Starship Troopers apart is the COMMITMENT to the message. It neither shies away nor tries to oversell it.

Deadline.com gets the scoops, sure, but Finke doesn't understand the line between smug and snarky. Can't stand her writing.

Aren't you supposed to be running right now instead of correcting your own grammar?

I'd like to also add that this show rarely has "external" symbolism. At the center of the show, no matter what, it all circles around Walter, even if he isn't there directly.

Or maybe Gus is just, y'know, an articulate drug dealer, the likes of which Walter never could be.

@St. God —

I liked Dilbert better
When it was the Drew Carey Show.

I was going to pop the cyanide
from the whole blogger HBO show, but after that "self-aware" line I have to remain alive for you, Sean.

Yup, I'm done. I put that cyanide tablet in my back molar for just such an occasion.

Re: Walt, in the recap I noticed they put a big focus on the interviews that, when casting, they casted people not to fit into characters, but actors with talent that they could see themselves living with in Hawaii. They can write the characters to the actors' strengths.

"I'm so disillusioned!"

Err. That's MORE of a profit than Gone Baby Gone, is what that's supposed to say.

@teadoust: $10 million budget, barely anything spent on marketing, and it made $13 million back.

Interesting
Whip It for a debut commercial film wasn't a bad outing. I remain cautiously optimistic.

It's okay, when you're out killing Exley's father, you just don't have time to know these things.