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"Hollywood Nights" is a deeply felt song about ambition, loss, and wistful memories. No snark.

The characters aren't the same, but Day-Lewis's performance is remarkably similar in both films: his voice, his relentlessness, his stare, etc.

I was pretty tickled at Larry David not liking that Modern Seinfeld Twitter account. It was very in-character. I kept wanting the interviewer to press harder, and get Larry to start blurting out reasons why he didn't like the tweets — whether they were good reasons or bad reasons, they would probably have been

I'm totally reading that in Susan's voice, and its great!

As far as sobriety parties go, that had to have been among the best, right?

Well, minus most of it!

Debates about zoning changes to allow for strip clubs can get oddly hot.

Yes, The Price Is Right was always sweetest when you were home sick from school. But you had to build up knowledge of how the show worked by watching it during the long, hot summers.

"I don't mean to offend, but based on his appearance on The Tonight Show, isn't Cosby pretty much senile? I'd be all for watching a senile man amble fo"

No, it's a humorous name. When he gets riled up by the kids these days, he can say, "Quit ranklin' Jon Franklin!"

"Why is my gyno wearing Google Glass?"

Two words for him: matching luggage.

Honestly, I've just never been knocked out by Scorsese's entire output like some people are. The three I mentioned at the end of my other post are haymakers, though. They stand out from a body of work that I can recognize as well-crafted, but which I don't find utterly captivating. He obviously speaks to other

"Don't Come around Here No More" — the rising wail that leads into that demented outro gives me goosebumps just thinking about it

Costner, Billy Bob Thornton, Johnny Depp, and Russel Crowe need to form a band called Award Statues and never play music.

What's he going to do when Letterman retires? Did Dave ever think of that?

Similarly, I'm a little amazed every time I remember that CCR never had a #1 song. They had plenty of top-10 hits, but never had one go all the way to #1.

Whoa, Billy Joel turned into a neo-Nazi so long ago that I guess I didn't notice!

He'll probably Feel a Whole Lot Better after he posts in that other thread.

These puns sounds better with Southern Accents.