(throws monitor across the room in a panic)

Please let the hidden message no one has found yet be that Bowie is still alive and hanging out with Andy Kaufman somewhere, waiting until we are worthy of their return.

They could just cut out every shot of him. Kind of a Garfield Without Garfield type thing.

Yep. It's a combo of extreme violence and a pile-on of cliches, the sorts of stories that happen in football all the time.

I can see that. But it all feels a little too overwrought here for me - it's very forced, and I don't think it has anything new or novel to say. As usual, it just says everything louder for the cheap seats, and I find that insulting.

No, you're right. It's all in extreme close-up, just to make sure we understand that this is a violent game of aggression, and over-edited to the point of total incoherence. Stone seemed to miss entirely that every play in football at least starts with a design.

In regards to that headline, no, no it doesn't. This might be an insightful movie to someone who's never followed pro football at all, which is to say, it is insightful to Oliver Stone.

Amen to this. Fuck the show and especially that troll Lorne Michaels, who would kowtow to anyone to raise his show's ratings. Remember he let Dice host at the height of his hatefulness as well.

It's from Top Five I think.

Exactly.

I can see that. I know nothing about sailing so I was intrigued the whole way though.

Yes, and like Pitt, he's always been underrated because he's so good looking.

And I'm a sucker for movies where people don't talk much and just try to silently figure something out, so I really loved it too.

It Depends on how you look at it.

Greatly amused by All Dogs Go to Kevin. This will likely become a reality, much like the recent Madea movie spun out of the Chris Rock joke.

Donde esta los pequenos keebleros?

He should have quit acting after All Is Lost. That was pretty much the quintessential Redford role and he was fantastic in it.

Wasn't there a similar storyline towards the end of the show, once she was in college?

I had one and used it in NYC for years. Then had it taken from me by the guy at a gas station a few blocks from my house when I was home from school on Xmas break.

Sad we won't have a regular column of this next week, but the fact that we will be receiving the much-promised, hotly-anticipated Compleat Phil Simms is a lovely treat to offset the post-election despair.