In his films he was billed as “Robert Downey (a Prince)“. Putney Swope has moments that are still observant and hilarious. The film is in black and white, but the faux commercials made by the advertising agency are in living color.

I still can’t figure out what this show is about.

You have a point, but this also helps me know what to avoid.

a) Too distracting!

When burning candles for a long time, e.g. until they are extinguished, line a tray baking sheet with foil and set it in the bathtub. (For magick.)

I’m gong to have to try this now (while I condition my hair, I guess), but an entire six-pack seems rather excessive, not to to mention maybe it’s not a good idea to get plastered in the shower?

Or, as the South American Indians said about my husband’s first wife’s lemon meringue pie, “Ugh! What is this stuff? It’s sweet - and sour! It’s gooey! It’s disgusting!”

I always get him mixed up with Jake Gyllenhal.

Hey - once in a while it’s nice to have  a movie based on children’s culture that doesn’t involve explosions and mayhem.

Yes, and he turned into females more than once, though his fellow gods weren’t supposed to mention it. If any of the MCU characters were to be bisexual it certainly ought to be Loki, the trickster-shapeshifter.

When I was about seven years old and a reader of everything, I began puzzling over words like “a few”, “many, “several”. “A couple” of days later must mean two days; but “a few days”? “Many kinds”? “Several”? How many was a few? How many was several? At the dinner table one evening I kept asking “How many is several?”…

No, that was RuPaul in the big Afro and tight white outfit.

I have always mused about the bra and panty set I saw in their catalog some twenty years ago, which were decorated with sapphires. The bra alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wondered, which Arab sheik is going to be the purchaser? And how carefully would you have to wash those panties?

Hey, people lie about their weight, lie about their age -- why not lie about your height?

Y’all eat that rice all the time, right?

The even weirder thing is that it looks like she spray-painted the symbol for women’s liberation. Like a child who thinks she’s writing a dirty word.

Just as well... It was terrific the way it was. Just enough hint of Hurricane Karina and internet conspiracy theories, and I didn’t even notice that it was a version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

At least as a dancer you get some exercise.

I haven’t read the original novel but it is supposed to be excellent.

I really liked “Lou Grant” back in the day. Thre were a lot of issues-of-the-week , many of them broaching subjects for pretty much the first time. Such as, drunk driving is bad; if a public figure tells disparaging ethnic jokes in a private setting, does the public have a right to know about it? If someone dies tragi…