So, you're not covering Lancelot Link?
VanDerWerff, you're back to covering The Cleveland Show. That's what you get for not hailing to the chimp!

and then there are the show queens
I collect cast albums, one of the most self-renewing genres of completism. Once a filmmaker dies, his output is finished. There will be no more Hitchcock, Altman, Curtiz, Welles etc. films ever made, so, aside from an unearthed opriginal cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, acquiring…

Is Chitlin-circuit a thing?
Because I very much want it to be a thing.

No, the OP's was way funnier.

forget Isla Fisher
Based on that picture alone, she should be expecting a call from Baz Luhrmann any day now. *That's* the look of a Myrtle Wilson.

Use the brown!
USE THE BROWN!!!

Oh, the quotes…
"Julie Taymor, who has been pitched over the side of the volcano like so many thongs and left to smolder among the shale and burnt char, or whatever."

I blame scientology.
Sheen is sounding more and more like Tom Cruise with every press release.

da noive a dat guy!
Bruce Vilanch is calling someone else's jokes lame?

The book of a musical generally refers to everything that's not the songs: story, structre, characters, plot, dialogue, etc. etc. etc.

Croonchy Starts were awesome.

how will this help?
It's great that they're starting to ask for help from people who actually know what they're talking about, but Bogaev can only do so much. Aida, Tarzan and Starlight all have awful scores. Making terrible songs slightly better is just a band-aid. On a corpse.

Following your directive and masturbating furiously.

I'm just hoping Batman Returns in time for my eleven-episode marathon of The Mary Tyler Moore Hour.

As a nod to fans of the original, Carol Anne's phone will have a "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!?" ring tone.

Follow Franco
Please start ending every AVC article that way. Or at least the newswires. Follow Franco.

absofuckinglutely brilliant
"1966's It's A Bird… It's A Plane… It's Superman, which thanks to Spider-Man is now pretty much the Long Day's Journey Into Night of superhero plays."

I don't know what it is you're not getting here. If Superman wouldn't look great compared to Spider-Man, then you're saying that Spider-Man is the better show. Or are you saying that they're both equally terrible? Or is Superman more successful because is as "not one but two memorable songs" (which, by the way, isn't…

So I'm not the only here who's read Not Since Carrie.

It's 2011
and Sean has linked to this article again!