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My immediate thought was that Stan had gone behind the CIA's back to warn Oleg.

I'm not sure that's true. I think it may be correct in light of the shifting political sands of the last half century in America, especially with regards to non-Anglo whites and Catholics who gradually rose to social respectability over that time– and were disproportionately represented in the media– but that being a

Sicko worked pretty well. I'd call it his second-best film, with all the rest distantly behind it.

Documentaries in the '80s were a funny time. Between Roger and Me and The Thin Blue Line, a lot of critics seemed offended that people were making docs that were interesting. It hails back to the same attitude from the '70s when NPR would run news stories that were just interviews and background noise with no

Bowling for Columbine has aged so badly that it's embarrassing that that was the one that won an Oscar.

Clint Eastwood went from B-movies to television to Italy before being scooped up by Hollywood proper. By the time he was doing studio pictures, it was the mid-late-60s, borderline New Hollywood.

Dude's gotta eat.

He flew to Ljubljana, so probably Italy. Austria is also a likelihood, being neutral and all.

"Your name is Philip!"

It won't get better until studios stop making films with the express purpose of winning awards. That's all there is too it.

Because that wouldn't be lame enough.

It's not as if the "selling out" mentality on the other side is any less detrimental to the viability of artists. Projected concepts of artistic integrity have already been adopted by employers to justify not paying any artist whose work they "commission."

Lil' fuckin' Yachty.

It's Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever?

No one in the music industry in 2017 can be worth that much.

I thought we were watching You've Got Mail tonight.

Nothing like seeing Elon Musk and Peter Thiel in the credits for Thank You For Smoking. Though it kinda makes sense that they'd both go in on that one.

Or build a City Wall to keep out goddamn Mongolians.

Nah. The protests were organized and supported by lobbies, but if the protesters were paid, there would have been a lot more of them. The Tea Party protests rarely amounted to more than a leisurely sprinkling in the double digits, mostly comprising people with free time.

Weird thing about the 3rd Amendment: at the time it was crafted, the military was widely seen as the greatest threat to democratic values, but since the Civil War, the military has been viewed as an agent of democratic values. And that this idea has since been born out in other countries.