I love Islands in the Stream and Garden of Eden (Moveable Feast is enjoyable, but I can't get over Hemingway's bullshit in makig himself look way cooler than he was and making Fitzgerald look way worse- he literally changes real life dialog so Fitzgerald says stupid things that Hemingway said, and Hemingway gets the…

And it makes sense.  It's a winning tactic for them.  But it's clearly unconstitutional (in my opinion) because the entire purpose is to subvert the right to a trial.

Yeah, usually someone is appointed literary executor, and then they decide what to do.

There's no way there is nothing since, as mentioned above there are writings published in magazines that he never allowed to be republished.  I want more Glass family!

One of the biggest tactics used in modern law enforcement is overcharging.  They charge you with ten charges for every crime committed, so you have to plead to one charge (which should have been what you were facing) instead of risking trial for ten and a potential 20 + year sentence.  They are using this technique to…

This is sooo true.  I personally think police and prosecutors that lie or falsify evidence to convict people should face the sentence that person was facing.  Attempting to cheat and put someone away for life for a murder seems pretty equivalent to attempting to murder someone to me.  Yet the most unbelievable…

Have you seen Murder on a Sunday Morning?  I show that to my college Freshman every year.  That defense team, Patrick McGuiness and Anne Finnell, is unbelievable.  Those people are my heroes, and in that film we get to see them catch that ideal case for an idealist public defender, a truly innocent (and not even just…

I think most of us are hoping really strongly that Salinger's wishes are ignored and we can get at all that work.

Yes, he's the first one that came to mind for me.  Compare the writing in "The Sum of all Fears" to the writing in "Patriot Games" and then try to convince yourself the same person wrote each book.  Nowadays many genre authors never existed.  The name is created and owned by a production house who hire cheap grad…

It would also be fun to see a piece that points out how many of these are ghostwritten while the "author" is still alive.  You know those writers who have a new huge book every six months?  Other than Stephen King (who really seems to have an obsessive writing condition) most of those are written by grad students off…

I agree that copyright has gotten out of control (they are now granting specefic extensions into perpetuity for no real reason, see Disney) but I think it's ridiculous to imply author's shouldn't be able to leave the work to their heirs.  The financial motivation for most (many?) people is to provide a better life for…

I think it's  pretty natural to want to look into how the great villains of history got that way, not to show sympathy, but to try to answer the simple question of why (and to look at how they actually managed to pull it off so that you can try to prevent similar things in the future).  Its ridiculous to pretend like…

You are having a very uptight day today huh?  I guess in your long exposure to the AVclub back when it was good, you never noticed that one of the chief means of communication we use here is something called humor, in which we playfully make statements like the two gentle ones above you seem offended by.  It's a much…

Not really much point talking when we apparently have the exact opposite taste in films.  I found MOS one of the worst summer mega-movies I've ever seen, and I'm not trying to be a hater or exaggerating for effect.  When it comes to comic movies, I usually like even the ones other people hate (DKR, Watchmen, etc), but…

While I agree that Costner and Crowe were good, the performances are sort of irrelevant when everything they say and do is so stupid.  Pa Kent was ruined and all the Crowe/Krypton sci-fi stuff was so poorly thought out that it falls apart under the slightest thought.
Marsden does suck, I'll give you that, but his…

He felt like Superman to me, while Cavill felt like an empty pretty face.  Cavill barely even had any dialog.  Routh's Clark Kent was perfect, funny and charming and awkward, and his Superman felt noble and comforting.  I shudder to think what's going to happen in the sequel when Cavill has to be Clark and actually…

You think the Brandon Routh performance was a cypher, but you like the Henry Cavill performance?  Baffling.

Wow are you wrong.

Wow are you wrong.

Waterworld is actually pretty good, it just got killed because of budget overruns and bad press (before it was even finished).  The Postman was the real stinker.