I think you're on point with intimacy in musicals. "Once" is nothing if not an intimate movie musical, and the Broadway production of it, for lack of a better term, made everything Broadway sized. In the most popular stage musicals there's this terrible habit of trying to go big and broad, and it does struggle to…

Maybe not better than Garfield Minus Garfield or this new Cathy CK one, but I always liked This Charming Charlie, which is Peanuts comics with Smiths lyrics: http://thischarmingcharlie….

I definitely agree with you that documentaries need to be judged as something more than news reports or editorials with video. Too many people believe docs are boring because it's like watching the news, it's watching 60 minutes (not that there's anything wrong with 60 minutes) or something even more tedious. And yet…