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Dead on. The puzzle part was fine but the human part was flimsy and corny.

So in that sense we are all post-Boomers?

No, that's not it. A character actor is "oh it's that guy again" actor. They start out just doing it for the job in small roles but over time acquire greater clout and personality. Over time they might even move up to lead actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman is an example of this), but they're really just there to do the…

Another thing about the US is that less than 10% of the population lives near New York or LA, while about 20% of the British population lives in the London metro area. If you're a great actor in a small town it's so much harder to try to branch out and find work.

This isn't anything new and I don't think it is related to homophobia. Look at Harrison Ford and how late he got started. He was almost forty when he became a star. Dicaprio is on the opposite end of the spectrum but his lack of support didn't come audiences but from the industry itself. Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Tom…

He probably needs an asshole prodding him along, like David O. Russell. There are some guys out there who are super combative and only respond to that, so those two seem like a perfect pairing.

Technically true but he's not good at it.

That's like Silas Marner which is easily Eliot's worst book and a total slog but it's so fucking short that it's on every Brit lit syllabus. The same goes for Tale of Two Cities and The Old Man and the Sea.

This is dead on.

Agreed. It should be the basics, a year or so of algebra and then stats.

Not a journalist, but someone from the Daily Mail, which should never be indicated as ever doing anything journalistic. It makes Horowitz's comments worse coming from a interview with a paper that's often referred to as the Daily Heil.

Yes. They want to be taken seriously as a journalism, and they've been spending a lot of money on editorial. For better or worse, it's one of the futures of news.

Yeah, they don't really work. If you want to interview someone specifically without the panel, do it then. Otherwise, extend the monologue by a couple of minutes and the panel by a few more, and you're fine. Also, note that a bunch of their correspondents have flowery language as a gimmick.

Right. So if you're in a town with a 70 mm, you could watch the new Star Wars at midnight, open presents, sleep it off and then go watch Hateful 8 in the evening.

It was odd that Farscape didn't get a mention. But it's probably more pan (at least in the variety of species way) than bi.

so you know more about Community on Yahoo than Dan Harmon and Joel McHale?

You're right. Community on Yahoo was a success but everyone's contracts were up and to renew them would be much more expensive. If that wasn't an issue Yahoo would've been interested in another season.

Kimmel might've nuked his nerd bridge with that video game bit.

The use of Springsteen throughout was pretty well done and anyone can listen to the sequence of the songs and see the arc of the show.