ANASTASIA: Say you love me. Just say it.

Waldo Salt won the Oscar and the BAFTA for his screenplay to "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). Excerpts from his draft screenplay (2/2/1968):

This cover looks so awesome — the guy getting duplicated, the shadowy couple running across the exaggerated-perspective landscape, the impossibly peaked rock formation in the distance, the great typeface and color scheme. So disappointed that the book has little to do with man-duplication.

au contraire, M. Ebert
Funny, I have just the opposite view as Ebert. Something can only be (fine) art if it's the creation — the singular vision — of one person. Other than that, it's commercial art or performance art (acting/music). Paintings, books, sculptures, poems, symphonies, photography, plays (the writing,…

So in the last 50 years of video games, the first one you thought was art-worthy is "Red Dead Redemption"?

burn, hollywood, burn
As long as it keeps the Mexicans in their own country and out of mine, I'm happy.

Jackson's LotR was an OK generic fantasy action movie. It was *not* the Lord of the Rings. Jackson gave no indication that he comprehended the spirit of books.

Stacy or Casey
I like Casey Affleck for the roles he's been in, but how do you replace hulking, masculine, brooding intellectual Stacy Keach (from the 1976 version) with Casey Affleck?

Regarding the cover
I thought the cover art was good so I looked up the artist. Was difficult to locate because the official DAW website had incorrect information, and many other websites (like booksellers) also had wrong information. Phipps's copy of the book is DAW #266 UE1337 from 1977, for which DAW listed…

A.I. and GoNY
AV Club writers, I'm embarrassed for you. "A.I." is, at its heart, the Pinocchio story. The robot boy even ends up staring, frozen, at a Pinocchio sign. So of course the good fairy/aliens have to turn him into a "real live boy" at the end, if only for a short time. This ending doesn't ruin the…

wistfully remembering the original Sneak Previews on PBS
Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune): "Until a leaden third act, it IS reasonably entertaining."

great news
Got to believe more of these old films are squirreled away somewhere. Just a couple months ago came news that a long lost movie from 1913 that starred John Ford's older brother had been found (in good condition) in a barn in New Hampshire (see http://news.discovery.com/h… ).

"Red River" has already been done; it was called "Rawhide".

"they did a good version of covering his rise and fall"

A series based on the worst movie ever made? What a great idea.

Carol Burnett has priority
If they had to give this award to a woman, Carol Burnett should have been given precedence over Tina Fey (and both of them have precedence over Tomlin and Goldberg).

hypocrisy
May 3, 2010: Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming writer Mark Boal — a journalist embedded with his Army unit in Iraq — based the film's main character on his life.

the photography
"…best-shot sitcom of the '60s"

The Addams Family was not a "subversion of Eisenhower-Era family values"—it was a very faithful transliteration of (the spirit of) the original cartoons, which go back to 1938.

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Great! Now I know where to go to get away from these shitty, shitty bands. And Mexicans!