Bowling episode. Make it three.

He's the Wiz! And nobody beats him …

She's 57

Local Hero is a great movie.

Yes, but that wasn't a bonus puzzle, which means that it was an extremely unusual decision to "take a shot" after just one letter.

There's a great Esquire article about her: http://www.esquire.com/blog…

Me too!

Fair enough, but it remains a mystery why 2001 was nominated for original screenplay. I know it wasn't based on the novel (they were written at the same time, though my edition of the novel contains a notation saying it's based on the screenplay), but it was based on a short story called "The Sentinel."

Let's not forget the OS from Her ….

"Women are all same face color, hair color, eye color."

I guess Beth Grant wasn't a big enough name.

The "property values" one had unexpected bite.

Laurie Metcalf played that scene like she was in a drama, and it was much better for it.

There were elements of A Simple Plan, Shallow Grave, and every other variation on Treasure of the Sierra Madre in there, but I think Vince Gilligan's presence is the biggest clue.

No, that had Dylan McDermott. This has Dermot Mulroney.

My favorite line is "There's a Haldeman and an Ehrlichman. There's no Herlichman!"

EB White and James Thurber might have something to say about that.

"those sorts of characters were typically treated as a joke, relegated exclusively to comedies, and consequently weren't actually all that progressive."

Except that doesn't really apply, at all, to a typical Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, or Katharine Hepburn character.

"He did allow … the possibility that it arrived from elsewhere in the Milky Way."