Yeah, Danny Peary's review of the film in Cult Movies prompted me to get the DVD. Although I am a lazy sod, as I've had the film on my shelf for years, but haven't gotten around to actually watching it.

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen” – King Lear, p.46.

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Quincy Jones, M.E.

The Civil War stuff was pretty goofy, but other than that I didn't mind the direction S2 took with Benjamin Horne's character. It was a kinda cool that, while other characters had darker sides of their personalities coming out, Benjamin's hidden side was "good" (although his efforts at reforming his ways kinda fucked…

I enjoy me some Frank Gorshin Riddler, just not in Twin Peaks.

Yeah, it's telling the way Earle was done away with so abruptly in the last episode, you can tell how much Lynch didn't care for the character (I never cared too much for him either, he reminded me too much of Frank Gorshin's Riddler).
Good thing Lynch re-wrote the hell out of that last episode - the version filmed is…

The controlled punches Leland throws against Maddie make the scene brutal to watch. The way he jabs and pulls his firsts back…Eurgh.

It's a shame that the A.V. Club stopped doing Homicide: Life on the Street Classic Reviews after the second (I think it was the second) season.

On a barely-related topic, I love the bullshit David Bowie history that Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper created in their audio commentary for Look Around You 2's "Music" episode:

If memory serves, the cereal mishap occurs in the film, but it's a subplot that doesn't have as much presence in the film as it did in the book.
I think if you look at the 1970s-1980s - the period in which the most Stephen King films were made - the only adaptations that really deviated from the source material were The…

Page 1 of Morrissey's autobiography, sung by Peter Serafinowicz:

There was a belated Firestarter sequel, with a grown-up Charlie McGee (not played by Drew Barrymore) making stuff catch fire and blow up when she gets sexually-aroused. The film also starred Malcolm McDowell in the role George C. Scott played in the first film.

The Long Walk would be difficult to pull off as a film. I mean, if Darabont was going to be faithful to the book, it'd be a couple of hours consisting of teenage boys walking, talking, and getting gunned down. It could be a terrific film, but it'd have to be low-budget and artsy and it probably wouldn't make much…

"My face! My valuable face!"

And because there was already an actor called Michael Hall, Michael Anthony Hall had to use the stage name "Anthony Michael Hall."

So after wasting loads of people she starts fighting crime? Reminds me of the bizarre idea someone had in the 1980s of a Dr Phibes television series "that would have recast the doctor as a benevolent crimefighter who uses his makeup and technological wizardry to ensnare criminals." (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

There was a Carrie remake in 2002. It was a TV movie that was supposed to serve as the pilot for a TV series. I've not seen it, but apparently Carrie survives at the end. Well, I guess she'd have to have done, otherwise what would the series have been like?

I think there are more than a few King adaptations that are fairly true to the source material - they don't deviate from the books as much as they streamline them. Examples being Christine and The Dead Zone, and (granted, these are more like guilty pleasures), Cujo and Firestarter.

So, who's the best fake Elizabeth Taylor?
a) Helena Bonham-Carter
b) Lindsay Lohan
c) Sherilyn Fenn
d) John Belushi

…and right there is the best possible title for a book about Jim Morrison's Miami trial.