Stodgy author James Joyce? Is that the same stodgy author whose books we're widely banned and routinely burnt by the US postal service? Get off my fucking lawn already.

Simply more confirmation that getting old will suck. Taking a 27 year old's letters to his 25 year old girlfriend, and then juxtaposing pictures of them when they were an old couple - ha ha let's fucking laugh at the old dead people and the letters they privately wrote to each other. Jesus Christ can't fucking…

Killing Zoe.

Also lobbing in a plug for Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? 

Also lobbing in a plug for Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? 

Reed Hastings is the worst example you could pick to make your point, given that he did in fact create a successful company from scratch. 

HDB: Thoughtless, self-aggrandizing post.
Others: That sure was thoughtless and self-aggrandizing.
HDB: Why are you calling me thoughtless and self-aggrandizing?
Others: Because, specifically, of X and Y.
HBD: Thoughtless, self-aggrandizing reply.
And so on…

littlealex: the phrase you're looking for is "Ma-Sheen!"

No love for Nailin' Palin on the boards?

Cage was great in BL: PoCNO. Fair to engage in criticism of his body of work en masse, since the sum of his works is less than the parts.

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight.

Wonder what the next wave will be once the comic well is all dried up. I'd like to see a return to noir.

Just dead on the inside.

He was good in Ghost Town. He was solid at the Globes (and is back next year). Given that he's sitting on a gold mine (The Office now has a Chinese version in the works, following the UK, US, German and French versions) not sure why he needs to exert himself any more than that.

Actually more proof that success can often be found by carving out a niche and excelling at it, even if that niche is douchiness.

NYC is nice enough, but there are plenty of nice places in the world. I live in LA, but am not provincial enough to think this is the BEST PLACE EVER (and am well traveled enough to know that this is a better place than NYC).

CBS is probably right in characterizing 30-40 as limbo, but if one had to choose between young vs old it's definitely old.

As It Shall Henceforth Be Known
That word - henceforth - that you use. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Doc Brown: Cameron saved the Na'vi from coffee-swilling baddies - he deserves cent he gets.

Ditto Mr. K on Avatar: The Last Airbender series. We just ignored their pull dates and kept watching.