And he's also in that movie "The Town" with Jon Hamm, Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall and the blonde waif from Gossip Girl.

@bungle77: Mr. PrairieDawn and I had a great meal at Seablue earlier this year. (I should also mention, at the risk of sounding like a hopeless sycophant, that we chose that restaurant because Scott Tobias mentioned having eaten there and liked it. I did not have the energy to wade through Yelp and Chowhound reviews…

I too have my doubts about Ariel and Eric. She's mute for most of the time she and Eric know each other, so they can't even have a conversation. So stupid.

The Ramona books were my favorites growing up too. The children's perspective really captured for me what it's like to feel misunderstood and maligned by the adult world.

While we're on the subject of Stephen King stories, has anyone read "I Am the Doorway"? It was in an anthology my brother brought home when I was in 8th grade or so; in the story, an astronaut comes back from a mission with an eye embedded in his hand. Thanks to that lovely image, I've been terrified of isolated eyes…

She was also pretty mean-spirited in the animated Disney film, from what I recall. Perhaps not as much as in the book, but the Tinkerbell I remember from my childhood is not the spritely, talkative little thing I saw in the previews for that horrible looking Pixie Hollow movie.

The original fairytale scarred me when I read it in elementary school. I always remembered her throwing herself into the ocean and turning into seafoam at the end. Apparently she's then then resurrected as a daughter of the air (something I either missed or forgot from my first reading), and that's a good thing. But…

Do they reprise their Charleston dance at this swingers party? Because that was one of my favorite bits of the whole season.

Netflix is supposed to have a streaming app for the iPhone out sometime this summer.

There must be a Beanie Babies movie script somewhere, waiting to be dusted off.

My friend told me last night that she asked her boyfriend about going on an overseas trip, and he said he dislikes foreign travel because "you don't know what the legal system is like" in other countries. She said he also brought up "Taken" as an example of what can happen even in big cities in first-world countries.…

Cookie Monster, I don't stand much of a chance of a cameo either. You and I should make our own TV special.

That rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow also plays over the closing credits of Meet Joe Black, randomly enough. I heard it there first but associate it more with ER because I've caught that episode on reruns so many times now and bawl like a baby without fail. I also got choked up last night too. OK fine, I got…

Lamar, Brother Mouzone's assistant.

Oh, other people remember and love Road to Avonlea? Can we hijack this thread to talk about Anne of Green Gables? What's Megan Follows up to these days?

While we're on the subject of hating My Best Friend's Wedding, it is also infuriating that Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney marriage pact kicked in at the age of 28. 28????? When this movie came out, I was a naive high schooler and 28 sounded like a perfectly plausible age to have such an agreement. But now I'm the…

Rom coms
Most of the folks around these parts probably loathe rom coms just on principle, but there's one specific motif in modern rom coms that makes me crazy: Heroines that do horrible, selfish things to the people around them in their pursuit of "true love," all without consequence. Like Reese Witherspoon's…

zA co-worker of mine just came back from the Candy Expo in Chicago (official name: Sweets & Snacks Expo) with pretzel M&Ms, which I'm now eating for lunch. They're okay but don't quite deliver on the chocolate + salt combination as promised.

Mr. The Information, that is just gross!