Interesting about Rock Star. Honestly I didn't think it was all that — meh, you know? (And Jennifer Anniston wasn't helping. The woman can act, I've seen her do it, but Friends seemed to derail her career a bit).

wait, is that for real? (Is he a friend of Jeffrey Epstein?)

Honestly I have to respect a guy who does that much work tho. Like Caine, he saw acting as a job. A great job, a job you get to hang with movie stars, all that — but a job. And if you want any kind of security you work a lot.

I've seen the Departed, The Fighter Boogie Nights and some of Rock Star (which I wasn't super thrilled with, but I'd watch it again to see if you are correct). I've said it before: Wahlberg needs a top notch director who can bring out the best in him. I don't think it's entirely an accident that his more acclaimed…

OK so Sophia is pretty deep in the uncanny valley and it's weird. But knowing what little I do about AI the answer she gave to the "Are you single" question says as much about the programmers as it does Piers Morgan.

Does cereal get moldy? I mean, the cheerios I had once in a plastic container must have been in there for months, and they were ok. I do note that in a non-airtight container you can get bugs, I don't know how good the seals are on those wax paper bags inside cereal boxes.

I've had quail. Again, pricey, but worth doing. I don't think anybody actually eats cats, by the way — I'm told the meat will make you sick. Geoduck? NEver tried it though they have it in Chinatown. Sea urchin was at sushi restaurants. It's not terrible, but I just couldn't get into it.

I had camel at a restaurant in Jordan. It was in a kind of pastry shell, served with rice, and chopped up with seasoning and some vegetables (I think it was raisins and green onions, and some other stuff I can't recall). I did not find it tough though the portion was pretty large, like for two people I think.

I've had buffalo. It's in the supermarket here in NYC. Bit pricey but pretty darn good.

Dunno if anyone covered this, but horse meat does have a pedigree in the American West, there are any number of accounts of it being eaten by people when the horses were no longer able to work. That said, it was usually poor people, which is one reason for the stigma. As well post WW II there was a gigantic marketing…

I thought I would be one of the few who noticed that rainbow pattern. It was a nice touch, visually.

That's some Land of the Lost level production and effects values there.

Yes, it's interesting because the whole folk music movement in the US took on a very radical turn going as far back as the 30s. Dylan, by the way, was seen as less connected to the political traditions of the genre. Dylan never had to deal with being blacklisted, for instance. Pete Seeger? The man walked the goddamned…

Lot of stuff here, and I haven't scrolled through it but I am curious what other people think about this: I was born just before the Beatles broke up, so the albums are a big part of my childhood, as were the Beach Boys. That is, they wre inthe collection of records that adults would have around and that us kids…

@Lisa Weidenfeld—
As to why the trio of Allison, Helena and Donnie could be found, they got out there in a minivan, and you need a semblance of roadway to get into a forest in one of those. You can't bushwhack it unless you're in a big off-roader and that leaves a trail of destruction in its wake that would be…

Donny hasn't got any hand to hand skills, he had no gun, and he is facing at least two guys with rifles. Playing white knight was not going to be smart.

I'm going to agree on the Ramones, and add the Grateful Dead, Prince, and the Kinks (though I suppose the latter could still theoretically happen?)

But wait, when I saw that scene I saw Jimmy take the grifter's money, but also put some back, no?

You may have hit on some of the things that made the movie not work for me as I would have liked it to. The romance angle was simply wrong; part of the point of the books was that Arthur isn't going to get anywhere with Trillian and that's what made it funny. (And with decades of hindsight I realize it was a much more…

I read the books first, and liked the TV series well enough, but watching it again 30+ years later I notice that the problem seems to be timing. It's like they couldn't quite get the beats that made the books so funny when we read them to each other as eager 12-year-olds. I'd argue that the animations get the timing…