No Love For Hair?
Seriously, the revival cast of Hair is stirring and gorgeous and rocks quite intensely with a really exceptional set of voices. Is the AVC too cool for musical theatre greatness? I was hoping for at least a nod from Noel Murray.

Okay, I suppose the book is a good enough reason to skip a rotation. I've actually not heard of either of the movies mentioned, but I'm sure it will be worth diving into the terror.

Another Nathan Rabin Notion
Are we getting another MYOF some time soon? Has the series just been pre-empted by Thanksgiving and the Best of the Decade film coverage, or is it (gasp!) over?

@Writ Large: Dammit! You stole my line!

Also, thankfully, not Stanley Crouch. Or is pretention jazz writing a different beast?

I read "Howard's End" two years ago, yet completely missed the parallel when I read "On Beauty" earlier this year, until I saw it mentioned in a review. Then I felt like an idiot.

White Teeth and On Beauty are both extraordinary—they attempt different things and both succeed in their own ways. I wouldn't want to choose between White Teeth's extraordinary breadth and On Beauty's greater depth, especially when the prose in both is so gorgeous, the characters so fully realized, and the plotting so…

Also, the list does not take into account either supporting roles or work in animated films, which would skew the result more—particularly for women, who are all too rarely the leads.

Well yes, thus the question of whether we'll see more of it.

I'm Just Waiting
For the first study of whether being a fan of Twilight causes women to internalize the really creepy gender politics of the series. Will we start seeing a bigger incidence of women seeking out and staying with creepy manipulative fucks because it's "true love"?

I need to give Nashville another try—I last saw it in high school, and was incredibly frustrated by how meandering it was. Hopefully I'd now find it a little easier to just go with it. I found McCabe and Mrs. Miller even harder to like. Maybe the intervening years have made it easier to accept unconventional…

Finally, a calling in life. As long as I don't actually have to watch the shitty movies.

Jeffrey Wright is so amazing—his few scenes in "The Manchurian Candidate" remake are exceptional. And if "Cadillac Records" hadn't disappeared so quickly, he would have attained the genuine stardom he deserves. And why didn't more people see that? It was really quite good all around—amazing performances, and not as…

Anika Noni Rose
Poor woman, had to get through this before she won her Tony and did the movie of Dreamgirls. bet she wishes she could expunge this one from her IMDB page.

Angels in America
Glad to see the love for "Angels"—I think it's just about the best adaptation that could be made of such a profoundly theatrical work. (The least successful scenes, in my opinion, are the ones with the effects—it's just not as good when they're fancy as when they're obviously fake.) In addition to…

Are we sure that's not a devil doll?

@ Zugzwang—I also rented "Y Tu Mama Tambien" with my parents. We didn't realize the difference between "contains explicit sex" in a foreign movie vs what the same phrase would mean in an American movie. By the time it got to the end, we were extraordinarily uncomfortable. Then I watched the last scene again the next…

Also, read them and get to know writers so you can guess whose tastes are similar to yours and whose aren't. Critics read your mind, they can only say what they like.

I had high hopes too. I like the cast and Nair, and Earhart's a fascinating figure. Maybe they'll make the good movie about her some time.

Olive Storm?
Anyone able to explain what those things floating around Defoe's head in the picture are? I'm not willing to see the film to find out.