I'd Love In her Shakespeare!

I think Miller's Crossing as a little of The Glass Key in it too, A Grey Man. Tom Regan is basically the fixer.

Archie, you were in Persuasion?

My hoodie is very sharp because it's made from the finest Shar-Pei.

More puppy tweets:

Lots of movies owe a huge debt to Hammett, but other than the Loy-Powell Thin Man and (natch) The Maltese Falcon, I don't know if there are any great, awesome, definitive film adaptations. There is a version of The Glass Key, but I've never seen it.

Still, it's a long way from your response, Ellie, that Nabokov wants us to see the story through Humbert's eyes, and Lolita being a slutty little brat. She's…nothing, really.

Ooooo…the rationalist, that would have been a fabulous idea.

You're a true gentleman, UR.

And not surprisingly, none of the girl AV Clubbers are posting in this thread. Until now.

Lolita is a slutty little brat? No, she's a 12 year old being raped daily by a middle-aged man. Her behavior gets worse as the book goes on because she's being abused, not because she's selfish and slutty and a brat. This is where the reader—or maybe it was just this reader—is supposed to lose sympathy with…

No Country was an excellent adaptation of McCarthy's work. The movie version of the The Road was good, but it definitely needed more baby-eatin' cannibals.

I hope Hollywood never, ever touches A Wrinkle in Time.

I think Sheltie has a point: Christoph Waltz needs to be in every film.

Back to Austen, the version of Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds is the best film adaptation of one of her books.

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CLOACA TO MOUTH!

Do you have tenure yet, Professor, or are you going to go Amy Bishop on your fellow department members? I'm feeling like the latter is possible any day now.

Oh, fuck. You're right.

I think you exit the Ho, dear.