The "Mark as Hitler" motif is one of my favorite running gags in the show— using Stalingrad as sexy talk, ending up (of course) in a German uniform at the reenactment, etc.

Meesa horta?

I love that when Mark strides into the office, on his way to rat on Jeff, he's whistling Deutschland uber Alles.

I would argue that Vigo simply had a lighter touch than Murnau.  Few things become a surrealist more than nonchalance.

Hear hear!  And Morris was famous for staying in character between takes.

Benedict Suffragebatch.

Hey, Seven Beauties was pretty funny.

Mark: (cold glare)

That's like calling O.J. Simpson to be your character witness.

Well, to be fair, he does somewhat resemble God.

I've read that scene, and though it's certainly sketchy I thought it might have some promise.  For one thing I like the way the conversation about the "hooded clit" potentially foreshadows the hooded figures who will appear later.  And I also just liked the idea of Steve Martin (or maybe Albert Brooks, why not?)…

There is, you'll agree, a certain 'je ne sais quoi', oh so very special, about a firm, young carrot.

It's true— I'm the last person to want Kubrick to go the rubber chicken route— and it's possible I'm simply misreading the whole thing.  It could also be a Tom Cruise thing, in that for me he always seems to suck the fun out of things.  (So to speak.)

"I'm Stephen King, and I'm going to scare the hell out of you!"

Bill the Butcher will be played by Steven Weber.

Once again I'm going to go with Toby Jones.

Yeah, he was going to collaborate with Michael Bay and Lars Von Trier.

Toby Jones, in the other version.

I don't know— of course Kubrick had originally planned Eyes Wide Shut as a comedy, with Steve Martin starring, Woody Allen in the Sydney Pollack role, and Terry Southern scripting.  (And that's a version I'd kill to see.)

It is the only way to speak of Nicole Kidman's vagina.