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Total nonsense. HEAVEN AND EARTH is wonderful. U-TURN and ANY GIVEN SUNDAY may not be major works, they're both very entertaining.

It was produced by Fox, though, and was one of their flagship shows.

Where's the cast of SMALL WONDER?

You should've asked Plimpton about the excellent and near-forgotten SHY PEOPLE (1987) with Barbara Hershey and the late Jill Clayburgh. I think we can do without reading more about THE GOONIES.

Julia Kent's featured on that soundtrack, which is really cool. She's an amazing cellist/composer who's often compared to Zoe Keating, but her work is really unlike anything out there.

God, I love Finkleman's THE NEWSROOM. Funnier than the American, British and French-Canadian versions of THE OFFICE/LE JOB.

It's a shame that THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE likely isn't going to be shown on PBS due to Americans' deep-rooted fear of genitalia.

I doubt you've seen any of them

I still really want to see RED HOOK SUMMER.

The only other Western screenwriter I can think of who worked with such an amazing roster of filmmakers is Jean-Claude Carriere (Milos Forman, Luis Bunuel, Volker Schlondorff, Oshima Nagisa, etc.)

Regarding the film of THE HANDMAID'S TALE-Atwood herself rewrote the script, and according to Harold Pinter, completely mucked it up.

As far as living playwrights writing in English go, you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody better than Tom Stoppard. For ARCADIA alone he deserves the Nobel.

We'd be living in a much better world today if the Mondale/Ferraro ticket had won in '84. Unfortunately, not that many voters tuned up at the polls that year, and the majority of those who did failed to use their brains.

MUNCHAUSEN's release wasn't postponed for a long period of time, although Columbia struck very few prints of it, which pretty much doomed its commercial prospects. It's such a remarkable film.

H*E*A*L*T*H has nothing in common with M*A*S*H beyond the acronym title and the fact that it's a satire, too. Oh, and they're both owned by Fox.

Stop (Bill Gunn, 1970). WB still hasn't given it a proper release more than 40 years later, but it's screened (very) sporadically, and it's wonderful.

The Joost Swarte collection looks amazing. Along with Everett Peck, he's one of the best illustrators to emerge in the pages of American magazines during the last 30 years.

You're very welcome! I'm trying to see at least half a dozen of them.

I can't believe he called POSSESSION "obscure". A new 35mm print of it played to sold-out audiences in New York earlier this year, and there's a huge Zulawski retrospective in Los Angeles this month: http://www.cinefamily.org/f…

THE MUPPETS was an abomination. Terrible songs, awful script, and the characterizations were all off. It felt insincere and hollow, a la SUPER 8