I think the tradition of the rapture derives entirely from the book of revelation, a piece of such mad and strange vision that most christians often downplayed and ignored it - it is, like you say, a distinctly American phenomenon, taking all sorts of symbols from the book that were specific to the time it was written…

I know that after I saw this, I read up on how the movie came about. From memory: Campbell had a very strong background in ballet, and this was her dream project. She was shopping around for a director, Altman was looking for something, and he was like, "May I?" and she was all, "Wow! Yeah! I lucked out on this one!"…

Flophouse fans might find this review underrates this episode. In terms of wormholes of insanity, I still found it fairly wormholey, I think I would rate it three wormholey boners out of four.

A Kiss Before Dying?

Good points, all, but it's Elmer Bernstein. Elmer writes music for murderers, Elmore writes murderers.

James Woods in The Simpsons when he's scraping stuff off the Kwik-e-Mart microwave.

I'll fuck anything that moves!

Given the tone of the movie based on viewer reactions, this seems most apt:

The first thing that comes to my of the things I really like is (SPOILER):

If you look at The Dark Knight Returns, he hits a lot of conservative targets - hates Reagan, hates George Will, most talking heads, etc. but a lot of who he goes after isn't that different than what might be in a coloring book put out by Sarah Palin: youth are moronic scum, hippies are too busy getting high to take…

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And one more thing: what you choose to call hell, he calls Nyquil.

Divien: the bottled water for the spiritual seeker who's in too much of a rush to really read the label.

Rubber Cop: the authority figure who polices your use of latex in an aggressive, hands on manner that secretly pleases you.

If you can sing that line while playing a ukelele and wearing a retro 4 Non Blondes hat, I think we have on deck our next MPDG.

@K. Thrace I want to be sympathetic to your points, but I can't. If you look at the reviews of Chapelle's shows that have been part of this comeback attempt, the problem isn't a disruptive crowd, or him not doing his famous bits, but that he doesn't do much of an act. He'll tell wandering stories without any heart or…

I see Fassbender, easily, for Christian Grey. The problem with the Anastasia role is that I find it hard to think of any actress who could pull it off - the writer seems to have mixed up "first year college student" with "mentally handicapped". Actresses that I think can play the character easily lookwise, Amanda…

They're no longer on speaking terms. However, given how pr0nography works, that might not be a problem. And it's even more non-problematical once you read some of the book's dialogue.

Wait…this guy's Thomas Pynchon? Last week he told me he was Sidney Poitier's kid. Does this mean I'm not going to be in the movie version of Cats?

The photo of that "happening party" looks more like a promotional still from a Todd Solondz movie.