Thanks everyone, Fort Night it is!

Hi Everyone. I'm teaching a course on Screwball Comedy and I'm trying to wrap up tomorrow with an episode from something contemporary in which we can observe some of the elements of SC which have survived and we MIGHT be able to connect to the classic films we've been screening. I think Bob's Burgers might do the…

Ooo, very nice. Maybe! This also makes me think Jessica Chastain. Her role in The Help actually had some kinship there.

Maybe, really close I think, I just don't buy her as innocently childlike in anything.

I'm a grad student in film and we play this game in the department where we re-cast classic movies today and the only role we've never been able to fill with someone else is Rita Hayworth as Gilda. I just don't know who you could get who could so deftly balance sex appeal, grace, sweetness, and innocence mixed with a…

I'm glad to know this doc was done with some sensitivity.  I've been wary of watching it, but I'll give it a look now.  My family's been in L.A. for generations and my father was a trucker between L.A. and SF.  On the day of the riots, he was in the city.  I remember my mom crying and freaking out the whole day while…

THANK YOU Emily, for being reasonable about the atrociously "named" Charlotte Sometimes.  Affectation is the name of the game with her.  Her horribly flat talk-singing reminds me of a child learning to speak.  They move their voices up and down without any real intent, just to learn how it's done.  I will never…

Please don't kill me for this, but I still find the "Graveyard Shift" episode of Spongebob disturbing.  I even scheduled it in my annual Halloween marathon.