Angela Lansbury was nominated for playing Jessica Fletcher for 12 years running and never won. Jon Hamm will never catch that.

It was "Three Stories", so it was at least the *right* episode of House. I'm more surprised that it beat the pilot of "Lost" than "The Wire".

There is a model for Best Pictures, not often followed, it involves stories told over at least a generation's length of time and passive leads. The leads are often children (HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, THE LAST EMPEROR), but not always (FORREST GUMP and GONE WITH THE WIND both fit; for that matter, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, and…

It's not so much that he's funny in it as that everybody else is a comedic actor in a comedy who does nothing funny at all, so you're all prepared to laugh and you're just sitting there watching in silence, so whenever he shows up, he is a bit funny and it is a big relief.

I don't think of Pryor as "fast talking" like Murphy or certainly Tucker, and yet I agree it probably came from Pryor somewhere.

Keep in mind, John Landis was talking shit about Murphy for years before that movie came out. He said something about how Murphy should've supported him during his TWILIGHT ZONE manslaughter trial, and Murphy publicly said "I really wasn't sure if he was guilty or not." *then*, after that, Landis was REALLY angry at…

If you open it up slightly, and look at the two movies he wrote which were made directly before HOLY MAN and the only film to be made after it, HOLY MAN is the best of the four.

This comment makes me wish that the movie had used "Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)?" in the end credits.

"The next time someone tries to talk to you about how A Beautiful Mind presented such an astounding portrait of mental illness…"

"just because they went straight to the source to get ideas. "

"You know who said that, the old Bluesmasters."

It's not even that complicated, it's an old old joke.

People are lumping in what he said (which is criticizing himself for caring too much about white people liking "black music" more when it is done by white people than by black people) in with a common criticism of Zep ("they stole from black people") because people get knee-jerk defensive about the fact that Zeppelin…

The way you wrote it, it isn't a joke. The Other Man says "Jamaica", it's just that the first man hears it as "D'yer mak'er" because of the accents involved.

I have to say, in my memory of this album, I always rank this right alongside "The Crunge", and I will skip it instantly. But if it comes on the radio, Bonham's drums kick in and for about ten or fifteen seconds, and it is in their top ten songs ever for that brief time. He has plenty of better performances, but…

"cross cultural exchange" is only possible when two cultures are on approximately equal footing. When one culture is banned from television and the other culture takes that first culture and makes hundreds of millions of dollars off it, and then denies the first culture credit and financial support, they are not on…

They wanted to motivate people to change the side faster.

So, only the stuff that got them popular was stolen, once they were at a point when anything they put out would sell, they didn't need to steal as much. I guess good point? Full disclosure: I think III, (untitled), and Houses of the Holy are their best albums, I don't like the stuff after that nearly as much, and I…

I love that song, but I have a feeling it is just obscure enough that nobody tracked down an influence. If they really could crank out a song like that without stealing, it makes the fact that they stole as much as they did kind of worse, because if that is all their lyrics and music, then they were perfectly capable…

"imo there is not a single act that Zep stole from that could have had their huge commercial appeal if you look at all the elements combined. "