Philip Pullman is reason enough.

My thought exactly!

It was nice to look at, though, especially on the big screen.

Perhaps I have no taste - I was all but shrieking with laughter at Animal Behaviour... but it does go on a little too long.

They do, but it’s not like rolling off a log.

Thanks! I remember Joie Lee from “She’s Gotta Have It”. I really enjoyed her in this episode, too.

I was trying to read Ilana’s T-shirt in the last scene. It looked like “Gay slang was invented by White Women/Gay Men/Drag Queens/something else/ [each crossed out]/Black Women.”

I do think that the host should have been in at least one movie. Even Johnny Carson was in a movie once. No one seems to care about the movie connection anymore, though.

I wish they would go back to showing an actual scene from each nominated movie instead of a montage of clips that don’t show why this was considered a top-notch film to begin with.

Started out with Friday night’s “Ancient Aliens” epidosdes; saw “At Eternity’s Gate” (Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh - is that “pop” culture?); watched the Short Animation Oscar-nominated movies. In past years many of the nominees have been quite dark, as “animation” often does not equal “amusing cartoon”. There was…

The other night I was looking for some fiction to read before bedtime, but everything that was close to hand was either fairly dense or in small type, and by the end of the day my eyes are tired. I went rummaging among my daughter’s pre-teen/YA books and found “The Music of Dolphins” by Karen Hesse (in large type!), a…

Also the fact that they never had to replace any of the actors, except for the one who died, which was a reasonable excuse.

I thought it was pretty good. It felt much more like a story told from the inside instead of the outside.

Bound has a cameo by Susie Bright, who was the sex consultant for the movie.

I don’t remember the daughter, but I do remember the Count kissing his dead fellow prisoner goodbye before he makes his daring escape from the ship.

ven though the central character has a ridiculous relationship with a femme-to-the-max Southern belle (in red, no less), I was pleased to see a couple of lesbian characters who *actually looked like the lesbians I know*.

I always wonder how the weathercasters get to the places having terrible weather. If travel is a nightmare, how do they make it?

He was truly an actor’s actor.

This did cross my mind. “Taken 4"!

I read on the internet (so it must be true) of bars where there is a sign in the ladies’ room to the effect of “If you are feeling uncomfortable ask for Rhonda [or some other name]”. You ask the bartender for Rhonda, he says “She’s working in the kitchen,” and he shows you out the back way where they have called you…