I'm…impressed, I guess, that anyone even remembers The Big Hit.

"They were going to make me a moderator for this, and I wasn't even in their fucking internet community anymore."

I'm Cherokee Jack!

R.I.P., Detective Dixon.

Agreed about Main Offender. "Wicked as It Seems" in particular still holds up pretty well.

I don't really have anything substantial to contribute, except that this is my favorite movie of all time. It helped that I saw it in the theater during its 50th anniversary revival in 1999, then went to Vienna for the first time a month or two later. I was thrilled to get to ride the Riesenrad (giant Ferris wheel)…

Idiot Control Now….of cock?

YOU shove off!

According to some of the other obits I've read this morning, Lee was transferred to the SOE at some point during the war and his military files are still sealed by the MOD. I know that whenever he spoke publicly of his wartime service, he refused to share any details but instead lamented the things he'd done and seen…

It is indeed pretty great.

Welp, looks like I will finally have to break down and buy a Xbone/PS4 now.

Avocados at law!

When I'm 99 years old and drooling all over myself in the rest home and unable to remember my own name, I will still remember the introduction to Quantum Leap, verbatium.

That's apparently what they called it in 'Nam:

We're coming up on almost 10 years of promises that Swift and Changeable is "just around the corner."

A great article about my all-time, hands-down, favorite movie. My only (very minor) complaint is that I wished it talked a little more about how much funnier the movie is, compared to the book. Much of that comes from Bernard Lee's Sergeant Paine, who plays the perfect straight man to both Martins and Calloway, as…

In the American version, Joseph Cotton did a slightly different version. It's available on the Criterion discs as a bonus feature.

I think Scorcese has said somewhere that it's an explicit nod to that scene.

"I'm English, not Irish."

This album comes up surprisingly often when I'm drinking with my friends, which probably says something about all of us that I don't want to think about. (We're old. And alcoholics.)