Soooo, is he still your kids' dentist, or….

I wanna see a version of The Stranger with his proposed casting of Agnes Moorehead as the Nazi Hunter. Nothing against Edward Robinson, he's great, but can you IMAGINE what that movie would have been like with Moorehead?

Haha OH BOY would HUAC have had a field day with Welles.

The editing on F for Fake is sublime.

Yeah, it's hard to shake the feeling that his failures, real and perceived, are as much a part of his legend as his successes. He was, at points, SO successful, SO famous, SO lucky, that it because compelling to contrast the high points when it seemed like he was SO unlucky, seen as a washed-up failure, etc.

It would probably be more accurate to say it's the only film he had final cut on and as much money as he wanted. He certainly never had the freedom again he'd had with Kane. But his post-Kane career is still studded with worthy films (and performances).

Actually, when the cast started getting reports of people freaking out about the broadcast (which started coming during the live broadcast), everybody starting nervously sweating, wondering how much trouble they were all going to get for this. (Very little, as it turned out.)

I try not to fixate on good teeth in period pieces, but every single character looked like a walking advertisement for a dentist's office.

Agreed. Great acting, but…well, I realized at some point I start dreading a movie when I know it's based on a play, because the chances are good it's going to be unbelievably stagey, and without the intense energy and the sense of connection that comes from watching a play performed live. I eventually got to the…

The Salesman and Fences, both on Sunday, which made for a pretty emotionally harrowing Sunday.

Hey wanna hear something rad - I ran into my roommate at the Women's March in DC. Neither of us had known the other was coming. That's right. In a crowd of over five hundred thousand people, I didn't just run into someone I knew, I ran into a person I lived with.

My sis and her boyfriend went, and they said the subway was so crowded they had to go to the end of the line in the opposite direction and ride it back when it reversed.

The call and response chants were the best. Call and response is a really powerful sociolinguistic phenomenon, plus it's easier on the throat if you can take a couple of seconds between chants.

This is admittedly easy for me to say, since I'm not the one who has to live with her or deal with her influence on any of my family relationships, but I vote screw it all and let it lay. Your MIL sucks, and that was an ungracious response, to put it politely, to you helping her at her request.

So did I! It was fucking epic.

I can say this both from personal experience training a dog and lots of reading on dog training: dogs are highly situational learners. They can learn to perform an action in one physical location/set of conditions, or with one trainer, and then balk or be confused if you change any of the conditions (different…

The truly astonishing thing about that scene is that both the writing and Dave Foley's delivery make it feel almost identical to an ordinary back-and-forth between Dave and Jimmy.

My guess is too many people and not enough cell towers.

I had a pretty rad time at the Women's March the other day, but one of the happiest moments of the whole thing was after I got home and was able to catch up on Facebook (zero cell service on the Mall all day), and a friend who had not been there, and was therefore able to follow media and social media coverage in real…

Like inserting a multi-second pause as a car continues to fall down a South American jungle cliff?