You don't have to read all of Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. Just flip to a random page and read for a few pages. She repeats her one idea so many goddamn times that you'll get all the info you need,

I wasn't too big a fan of Ratatouille, either, but there was definitely some dust in the air during the scene where the critic rushed back to his childhood memories.

Yeah, Scott! Watch Glenn Beck for ONCE in your life and learn something! For example, did you know that ACORN is a worldwide Illuminati-style organization that threatens to turn the U.S. into a socialist hell? ONLY GLENN BECK DARES TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH, TONIGHT AT FIVE EASTERN!

Argh
This may be a really poor time for an Iranian movie like this to come out. You hate to see what appears to be a new "Not Without My Daughter" come out just as Iranians are exposing what a varied, sophisticated, brave culture they have underneath the facade of their Islamic government.

Ebert's review
Ebert didn't even review it, he just tied together a string of vicious one-liners about it.

"Alright, cut the shit!"
That moment in the Dalai Lama sketch when it suddenly veers into the Fat Kids Camp competition when Odenkirk angrily tells everyone to "cut the shit — we gotta beat the fat kids camp!" is the greatest sketch transition of all time.

I was following you
The scene where Josh and Sam are walk-and-talking until they realize they're aimlessly following each other was one of the greatest moments in the entire run of the show.

So…
"Not a suicide" means "auto-erotic asphyxiation, but we're too classy to say that outright so add two and two together, everyone," right?

I like the idea that as a 7-year-0ld, you thought, "No way. Box office returns for this can't possibly justify that sort of investment, even with ancillary rights."

Samantha Mathis
In her bio for the recent Broadway play "33 Variations," she surprisingly does not include Super Mario Bros. in her film credits. She must have forgotten.

Proportional Response
The scene in the situation room, when the general (it was Fitz, right?) explained the airport-bombing scenario to the president, and made it very clear what the consequences were going to be, was a great moment of veteran generals explaining to a new and newly-hawkish president what the…

Yeah, it didn't really work too well for me. Except for the cartoon parts, which were great, especially at the end. "They truly were…an Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

One minor quibble
I love TWW, and especially the first two seasons, but that climactic scene in the pilot episode always struck me as laughably lazy writing. One of the most veteran members of the Christian evangelical movement, and a reverend to boot, needs to be reminded of the First Commandment? And just in time…

My deep condolences to you, JOG, but no one is suggesting you read DFW as a way of legitimizing or ennobling his suicide. He's just a smart good read, is all.

Boxy Brown is unquestionably the best recurring character in the show.

I'd go even further and say that CTL is the better book of essays to start with than "A Supposedly Fun Thing." The subjects the essays cover are more accessible (e.g., porn awards, radio talk show hosts, and Sept. 11 in CTL, compared with Wallace's own childhood, David Lynch, and a literary critique of television in…

I read a review of TA when it came out that made the same point as Tobias, and it ended with a line I thought was pretty clever: "The Bush Administration has to date initiated an elective war that has cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. The worst thing Tim Robbins ever did was The Cradle Will Rock."

Hearing a difficult to pronounce name always makes me say, "Hansel? …HAN-sel?"

"Meet me at my office at sunrise. You know what they say about sunrise…"
(long pause, then the sheriff walks off)

I still use Homestar Runner's "Baleeted!"