True, but Cabaret has a world-weariness that most musicals don't. Also, Nazis.

Wow, never heard of that. I just Google imaged her… indeed!

Those are astonishingly awesome. If somebody had those shoes when I was in 8th grade, I would have gladly killed him with my bare hands and taken them from his cold dead body. Easy.

Iron Maiden
Are so awesome and epic that I was astonished when I read their biography about 10 years ago. They are like the most normal guys, started a band in reaction to punk (that is, they kept their hair and solos long), got a contract, got big in England, fired their (sorta punk, mostly drunk) singer, got a new…

Benjamin Braddock: Plastics? I like the sound of that.

Brody: Mayor, we had a shark attack at south beach this morning. We need to close the beaches for the 4th of July weekend. The shark will lose interest and in a week or two everything will be fine.

Oh so what
Tell it to Vaughn Meader.

I went back and watched Raiders after being disappointed by Crystal Skull (not by Ford as Jones, no, he was great) and realized that NONE of the sequels to it were necessary. Raiders is its own sequel, and completes its own character arc nicely. The "return of Marion" was already done; it'd been 10 years since he'd…

Cronenberg's adaptation of The Dead Zone may have jettisoned various plot points and whatnots, but it certainly captured its melancholy and sense of things lost that can never be regained. Good stuff.

These days I keep running into younger folks (mid-20s) who LOVE the Dark Tower series, but as someone who was a teenager reading King throughout the '80s, I just can't get interested. These people haven't read It, or Salem's Lot, or Misery, or Pet Sematary, or Night Shift, and for people who claim to love King but…

I know what you mean, but that curse will revisit us all: "All right grandpa, Radiohead was cool at the turn of the century but dude! It's 2050, get with the program!!!"

I don't listen to the Doors much anymore, but I always appreciated Morrison's love of the literary lifestyle, even if the drinking and raising hell parts were easier for him than writing deathless literature. He got me to step up from Stephen King to Baudelaire after reading No One Here Gets Out Alive, so props to…

"Hold your breath/Prepare for the worst/The ugliest man in the Universe!" i.e., Jeff Goldblum wearing a toy elephant trunk.

The Tall Guy
Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson (mmm), Rowan Atkinson, parody of Andrew Lloyd Weber. Love it.

Butter on toast is fucking delicious, how can you deny it? Watch the video at 00:26—better than any "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"!

I'm pretty sure Keaton is on record as saying she hated the Kay character, for all the reasons noted above.

No love for…
Roky Erickson's "I Walked with a Zombie" from the Lewton/Tourneur movie? Best lyrics ever:

"He us right"? I'm the donkey. HE WAS RIGHT. Ramsay is always right.

"he us right"? I'm the donkey. HE WAS RIGHT. Ramsay is always right.

I love everything Ramsay does. Yes, the UK version of Nightmares is lower-key; the editing isn't as ratcheted up for tension and conflict. As someone who managed a restaurant for a few years I get a perverse pleasure out of watching the arrogant idiots who think they can run a restaurant overrun by filth and vermin as…