Great review, Todd. I've got this waiting for me on the DVR.

1975. My first movie-going memories are seeing Empire in the theater and The Fox and the Hound in the drive-in.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are other nights of the week that they can show original programming. They do comedy stuff on Fridays as well. Such an arbitrary reason to stifle the creative direction of a show, when they seem so supportive of their shows' creativity otherwise.

She's an actress! What the fuck do you expect? These are people who are fawned over for playing dress-up for a living. Frankly, I'm impressed that she can talk when someone isn't telling her what words to say.

I never read the book as a kid, but I loved the fantasy elements of The Secret of NIMH as much as I loved the rest of the movie.

My school - Regis Philbin.

Not necessarily, there can always be flashbacks.

Strange statement…
"I look forward to making another feature, and I think I'll be able to if I can just avoid cancer, but I don't want to just make a movie because someone will let me."

Ex-pedicab driver?

I laughed quite a few times. I hope they give this one some time.

I just looked up the biography of Crowley I read, Perdurabo, on amazon. It's apparently out of print and worth up to $273!

It's really surprising that no one has made a good movie based on Crowley, Parsons or Hubbard's lives (don't know this Erhard chap). Especially Crowley. That guy was rock and roll a few decades before such a thing existed.

Why was A Man in Full unbearably awful? I enjoyed that book.

Some people's mommies must have drowned in mayonnaise. Or maybe some mayonnaise molested them as children.

I'm not saying it's not weird, I'm just saying that being terrified of giving birth (and the huge life changes that it causes) is a lot more believable motivation to act so illogically than wanting an extra night's stay at the hospital. After that initial craziness, I thought they handled the birth very well. Much…

@Dunk - it turned out that she was refusing to go to the hospital because she was terrified of giving birth, not because she wanted another night there. That was just her excuse.

People can totally be of equal hotness. If two people can be fives, then certainly two people can be tens.

Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh.

Why the fuck would the insurance industry need a bailout? Their annual profits still stand in the billions.

I'm OK with liking stupid shit. Hell, if I have a lower happiness threshold that most, that's a pretty wonderful thing in my book. I stumble upon America's Funniest Home Videos on occasion and still crack up watching people hurt themselves.