I thought we were celebrating the death of that insufferable John Adams. He's obnoxious and disliked, you know.

Sorry, I misread your post.
I'd be curious to know what Obama is waiting for. Why doesn't he just ban the flag and 4th of July NOW? Why wait til next year, and miss out on a whole sweet year of dictatorial power?

There's one other way to be sure. Go to a doctor. If the doctor's office charges you some crazy outrageous amount, you're probably in the US.

Yeah, the ninth year of their presidencies is when presidents REALLY get up to shenanigans. Remember all the crazy shit Nixon did in 1977?

I was kind of disappointed Lolly didn't actually stab Alex.

I saw one of these!

That would make an excellent hastily-produced 1970s Roger Corman film. Or an excellent episode of Kolchak.

I can imagine some admiral saying "We should have let Riker kill him."

I thought that, too.

If Coke had turned them down, they could have just had Don on a road trip through the Appalachians getting sodomized by hillbillies and coming up with Mountain Dew.

Maybe not. At this point, there had been two dreadful seasons and one good one. If the show had gone on for several more pretty good seasons, Picard might well have been remembered as "the captain during those shitty seasons," and the consensus might be that the show got better after he left.

A little late, but I worked at Sea World from 1987 to 1993. What a crap hole. AMA.

Me too.

The actor contracts were up for renewal, so it was entirely possible that he would die.

The TMP score wasn't synthesizer driven. It was a big brassy orchestral thing.

Sounds good. Maybe after this, Paul Feig can do a version of 2001 that's all chicks.

Like Kevin Smith's Superman, it is a well-polished gem!

Well, disagreeing with people is what the internet is for.

So he's late Hook-era ca. 1990 Spielberg.

I'm ok with the 82 results. Gandhi, Tootsie, and The Verdict were all better than ET. As far as Best Director goes, I don't think ET was a better directorial achievement than Gandhi or Das Boot. The real 82 snub was Alan Pakula not even getting a director nomination for Sophie's Choice.