He's more like "funny uncle" funny.

That will be a headline on a supermarket tabloid by the end of the month.

I remember, when Kurt Cobain killed himself, someone stuck a microphone in front of Steven Tyler (whose band was still charting hits at the time), and asked his reaction. Tyler said something that came out sounding dickish about how Cobain took the easy way out, and that other people out there who were having…

"It's a boy — and what a boy!"
"Mr. Simpson, that's the umbilical cord."

The subversive genius of it was that his mincing-gay-voice character was also black; it's just that few of us ever noticed.

One commonly accepted formula is:

When Christopher Reeve died, I learned that he and Williams had been friends since Julliard. In hearing about how Williams was pitching in to help Reeve's widow with care of her kids, it reminded me of certain things I'd heard from Williams in non-manic interviews over the years, and I realized that he really was a…

Maybe, but my money's on a car left running in the garage. But anything that stops you from getting oxygen into your lungs fits — except water, I guess, because we have "drowning" for that specific case; and for all I know, lungs filling with water kills you in a way that's physiologically different than lungs…

There's another one where he's the *ahem* straight man, and doesn't really have a lot of laughs until the end, when he gets the most laughs (out of me, at least) by trying to convince Gene Hackman's character he's a really uptight, conservative. One of the biggest laughs Williams ever got from me was when they bring…

Don't forget Awakenings for the trifecta of his best performances. I don't think he makes a joke in the whole movie. I found him absolutely amazing in the way he captured the character's loneliness and a very generous heart that ached for his patients. DeNiro got the Oscar nomination for that, because he was…

No, but now I very much want to!

Really, if you're going to have that car, do it right, right?

About re-enactments: my favorites ever were in the "true-crime" segments at the end of a show called True Stories of the Highway Patrol, a COPS knock-off back in the mid-1990s. Most of the episodes would be camera crews following real state troopers around on their traffic stops, etc. But the end of the episode…

You say "late" like there's hope for something else one of these days. I'm intrigued.

Might this be a case of Disqus bringing us some out-of-town guests, kind of like when the carnival is in town?

I guess I have a soft spot for tattoos like these: the ones that exist for no reason other than that they kick ass. But most of the time, they would be better airbrushed on the hood of a Camaro.

Tattooed Spock would be a great username around here!

I've often wondered if a reminder of doing something really stupid like that makes a person stop and rethink future decisions, trying to avoid a similar mistake. Or does it just serve as a reminder that they got through that previous escapade mostly unharmed, and it hasn't been a big deal, so they'll likely survive…

I'm pretty skeptical of tattoos as an art form, too. I guess the more abstract they are, the more artistic they can look. Representational art and words tend to look really bad, while some of the scrimshaw-like designs of the Maori approach looking really beautiful*. And just like you can't impose a beautiful…

He's going to make some serial killer very happy one day!