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That was John Denver.

Unfortunately, genital pagination remains a commonplace in many cultures.

Dead Ringers would definitely be on my list.  The detail and nuance of both performances (Bev and Ellie) is tremendous.

I just don't think it's that fine a line.

The "long pig," they called it.

Ever read Wisconsin Death Trip?  The state's just bursting with potential.

It's Conrad Pooh and his dancing teeth!

Unless the space-door was closed.

I can't imagine how it must have affected your feelings regarding mime.

Every episode of Knight Rider was scary.  The car talked.  Terrifying.

OK, so either Little House on the Prairie or The Waltons did some sort of episode about a possessed doll when I was a kid, and it really scared me.  So that's the scariest TV episode ever.

I would argue that Duel remains one of the very best arguments for Spielberg's sheer filmmaking prowess— a better one than his more critically acclaimed and awarded efforts of late.

I had the same experience— as a kid it was magical and awe-inspiring, but on an adult rewatch I was a bit shocked by how little connection I felt with it.

Absolutely, and he was happy to use mistakes, when they worked.  George C. Scott slipping on the floor of the War Room for example— he fell and rolled and came up still talking, and Kubrick (correctly) decided it was hilarious and kept it in.

That one I actually completely accept.  The mapping of the sets would have made the anomalies in the design a pretty baffling oversight— and it makes total thematic sense to have made the hotel into its own kind of maze.

From one of the many Kubrick mini-docs on a DVD somewhere, I recall a reference to him doing this during McDowell's dining sequence with Patrick Magee in A Clockwork Orange.

Much as I enjoyed Room 237, and much as I approve of encouraging irresponsible speculation about things, I always feel people miss the point about Kubrick's perfectionism.

I learned a surprising amount of my vocabulary from Edward Gorey.

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