And yet Pussy Galore comes from one of the first Bond movies, back when the formula wasn't set and they really were trying. (Also, in the book she's a lesbian [until Bond — ugh — "cures" her]; "Pussy Galore" is a reference to what she does, not what she is.)

That was a deliberate plant by the writers to set up something that would be paid off on the show.

He also starred in Walkabout, another film in which a White guy drives into the outback and kills himself and sets his car on fire. (And whose title describes the plot of this episode, more or less — oh, and also titled a key episode of Lost.)

There was no Best Supporting [anything] category until 1936.

Not only that, but the Rea one was actually called Crime of the Century.

""innocent" is (at least in my usage) an exact synonym for that legal term"

He's okay, but he's no young Stalin.

Was I surprised by this post? Yeah. Was I surprised? No, not at all.

Actually, this was Cagney's final performance: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

By that logic, how could "September," "October," "November," and "December" ever mean anything other than the 7-10th months?

Yes to the second part, meh to the first.

Her name wasn't actually Wendy; it was Melinda Lou (Morse, after she married). "Wendy" derived from a childhood speech impediment.

So is the SBK plot continuing into next season? Otherwise it sounds like we're meeting SBK's leaders, learning about its infrastructure, and resolving the entire plotline within a single episode.

1) Who was the recognizable actor?

You say "intriguing," I say "bad screenwriting."

In a world where Andy Daly is doing those Carmax commercials….

I remember seeing Martin Brest in person c. 2007, four years into his post-Gigli slump. He looked pretty beaten down by life.

The shark-jumping episode was a full three years before Ron Howard left.

David Bordwell paraphrased Poe's criticism of a contemporary writer when discussing the subject: "Do not confuse obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity."

Beautiful.