Re: My Dinner With Willem
A movie about Willem Dafoe meeting Paris Hilton? So, we need a funny-looking middle aged guy, and a vacuous blonde. How about Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller?

Re: 1980DavidBowieFr…etc.
In my defence, I said: "*something* of a trend". But, er, yeah, OK, fair enough. One of the AVC staffers said The Ten was pretty good as well (in another comments section decrying Lennon and Garant as filthy sellouts, probably the Balls of Fury review…). Unfortunately, only the mainstream…

Crummy comedy vs. Awesome comedy
So which side is Michael Ian Black on these days? Simon Pegg also worked on Black's original script to British it up. Apparently this meant de-schmaltzing it, and making it more "cynical" (because obviously we're all heartless bastards over here) although the "feelgood…

mcgarnickle
"I expect to hear the Michael Bay remake of Alien announced any day now."

re: Cheesecore
Apagado: Having just read the review of Air Guitar Nation, I'm thinking there just might be a "sport" involving mullets and headbands ripe for a big screen outing…

James Marsters - another story
When he first turned up on Buffy, I thought his accent was all over the place - his vowel sounds ran the gamut from effete public school tones to cockney barrow boy, and was a good (or rather bad) example of an all-purpose "British accent".
However, later on when you see his backstory,…

unicyclistperiscopes
You're right that there's no definitive British accent - I'm using "British accent" as a shorthand to refer to any accent from the UK, be it Bristolian, Geordie, Glaswegian, or whatever. Saying that, most American actors these days go for the upper-middle-class home counties accent, one of the few…

Jacobus
Are you sure Michelle Pfeiffer looking old in the trailer isn't due to make up? She looks OK in the photo here, and her character does age dramatically in the novel.

onetonwonton
I was going to say that if you want to keep the stop-motion animation in, we're going to need Wes Anderson to direct it. Which made me think … Bill Murray as Zeus?

!!!
Zsa Zsa the Ripper

Going blank again
I have to agree that this album has a great start and finish (c'mon, no love for OX4?), but the middle … well, I own it, and I'd struggle to recognise some of the songs in the middle.

risk
But anyway, Risk is really just a primer for the weekend-swallowing lifelong-friendship-wrecking monster that is Diplomacy. I think I only ever properly completed one game of that.

Phel
I'm British, and some of my friends have been organising games of Risk in the last few months (and yes, I haven't played it since I was about ten). Assuming you're American, this Risk-renaissance must be remarkably widespread.

Peeing Calvin explained
Put this link together for the story behind the peeing Calvin stickers:

Dammit
Beaten by seconds…you win this time Monkeylamb.

TUNA PIANO
Those are definitely two different short stories. I have no idea what the dinosaur one is, but recognised the one about the Declaration of Independence straight away. Still had to do a web search to find out what it was called - it's Button, Button by Isaac Asimov.

It's not just me, then.
Since I'm from the UK, I've always wondered whether the Starbucks coffee in America tastes better, and that's why they're so successful. Apparently it doesn't.

re: jimi hendrix comparison
Legendary DJ John Peel decribed the White Stripes as "The most exciting thing I've heard since Jimi Hendrix or punk". It's not really about the solos or lack of them, it's about visceral excitement, especially live.

blasted url
http://film.guardian.co.uk/…
interviewpages/0,,881736,00.html

More Walken
If anyone's still interested, this Guardian interview confirms both the unrivalled work ethic, and the punctuation removal: