*P.K. Subban looks at his Olympic gold medal, smiles*

I've not read the books;I just know what I've seen on-screen. And I saw rape. If the director intended something else, he or she failed.

Should've turned right in Albuquerque.

The HBO CEO of Tits should also be making a reappearance.

Dennis Franz played bent cop Sal Benedetto in Hill Street Blues in 1983; he was brought back to play good guy cop Norm Buntz in 1985. I think David Milch is fond of doing this sort of thing, if he likes an actor.

I didn't have that thought, first time I saw it (which was when it was first released), but years later I did have a kid, and happily he loves the movie (the first time he saw it, when he was about seven, he asked if I could find George Harrison's song 'Dream Away' for him on CD; since I love the song too, I was very…

One episode, but he still established himself as a pretty nasty and vindictive piece of work. As for the tough love - hey, whatever works.

Ptolemy: well, yes, of course he got schooled. You don't mess around with Ciarán Hinds.

Here's what Beaver says (read more by going to the link; his comments about the show are fascinating):

Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui
Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see
And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is to be!

Yeah, my bad for paying attention to subtle clues like lines of freaking dialogue. . . . I should maybe spend more time looking for subtext (although The Walking Dead maybe isn't the best show for that), or thinking up snarky comments to post here as soon as the show has ended.

Unless it was a different one-off show, it was probably the episode of Hollywood called 'Hazard of the Game', about stuntmen. The saddest story is about the death of pilot Ormer Locklear during a stunt. Actress Viola Dana was engaged to him at the time (1920), and sixty years later she could still barely talk of it…

I would love, love, love it if Criterion - or someone, anyone - would bring out Kevin Brownlow's superb 13-part series Hollywood on DVD. I recently dug out the VCR (remember those, kids? no? ask your parents) to re-watch my battered videotapes (just ask your parents) of the series, which examines silent film through…

Great, now you've got me thinking of Bill Owen's Compo trailing round after Bea Arthur's Dorothy (because it'd have to be Dorothy, right?), just minutes before I have to go to bed here on the west coast. Please, won't somebody think of the children?

Seconded!

Oh good, I'm not in a minority of one in considering the Dawn of the Dead remake even better than the original (and I really like the original).

When Joe divided the rabbit and gave Daryl his section, he said something like 'A rabbit's butt is still half a rabbit.' So when it was the half with the head that fell out of Daryl's bag, we knew it was the other guy's half. Daryl presumably ate his part along the way.

When Daryl asked how they enforced the rules, I really wanted Joe to
wave a hand at the half-dozen guys with him and say simply 'When we
started there were 38 of us."

If they're planning on playing baseball at some point, then sunflower seeds are a must.

Still hoping that they'll be able to fit coverage of Rome in there somewhere (perhaps over the summer?).