Which he immediately followed with "but I'm one to talk" because Olivier definitely wasn't above some death-defying stunts onstage in his younger years.

I too just rewatched The Great Mouse Detective.

Heads.

Oh no. No.

Oh man, back when I worked in theatre, my boss would play "I'm Alive" at least once a day. Like, if there was music on, there was a one hundred percent chance that that was going to come up. Undeniably catchy and emotional, but I burnt out on it fast.

If STP had released their first album in 1972, they'd be remembered as one of the great, classic hard rock bands. If they'd done it in 2002, they'd have been called the saviors of rock. But they did it in 1992, and as such will always be underrated. Can't remember who said that, but it's true.

"I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once,Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script."

I saw that episode! I was mostly watching for Jennifer Coolidge and wasn't particularly bothered about Cranston either way, only to watch her flounder and him knock it out of the park. Dude was in character from the moment he saw that denim vest.

There's a story in Live From New York about when Sid Caesar hosted, and he was apparently baffled by the notion of writing thirty or forty sketches to get, I don't know, twelve or fifteen, whatever an average number was for the show at the time. Like, you're wasting an awful lost of time and effort generating…

And, if Double Down is to be believed, something else done more or less for ratings.

Years ago I read a piece about an NYC ballet company, and the guy they're interviewing says, yeah, a huge percentage of male ballet dancers are gay. For the ones who aren't, well, you're spending a huge amount of time with incredibly athletic women who can put their feet behind their heads with minimal effort . . .

I'll always treasure Wallflower's line that Watchmen was Snyder's passion vs his lack of intelligence, and passion ALMOST won.

"What're you doing in here?"
"It's a bathroom, take a wild guess."

In one of extras for The Shield's season 5, Forest Whitaker talks about how viewers, both cops and civilians, reacted with serious hatred for his (admittedly obsessive and loony) Internal Affairs character. Whitaker's just sitting there going "[Michael Chiklis'] character shot another cop in the face! How am I the…

I think it's one of The Thing DVD extras where he says that he didn't get any work at all for about two years after the movie was released. Like, there was a good stretch where he honestly thought he'd never get to direct ever again.

Lean into it. Never a question in my mind. Hiring a less attractive actor in the role would've reduced the number a bit, but people likes what they likes.

I've heard at least one version of the story where Reeves was forced on the production by powers above, perhaps even as a condition of getting the movie made in the first place. Been a while, but I think Coppola said he'd originally wanted Johnny Depp.

I like Biff manipulating his past self. He knows how dumb he was back in high school, so he's able to throw out some obvious BS like "let's say I'm a distant relative" and know that younger Biff will accept it long enough for him to make his pitch.

All of them. Same as it ever was.

Brook's standard line is that he wrote all the jokes about blacks and Pryor wrote all the jokes about Jews.