Its premise challenges the tired Star Wars “dark/light” binary

The picture here had me lost and then I looked at the Deadline article and immediately went, oh, of course. The Excelsior swagger stick captain in Star Trek III, Doogie’s dad, the SWAT LT on Hill Street - all the marks of a great character actor, where you remember the roles and not him.

Pauly Shore is beyond an asshole for basically stalking a guy who clearly relished his privacy and who was taking substantial effort to keep out of the public eye. I’m glad Simmons was able to ensure some level of protection from people prying despite this; he was a hell of a character and performer, and by most…

For those not familiar with trial procedure, judges have a wide range of sanctions available to them for attorney misconduct. This one is the equivalent of a nuclear strike.

The remaster was done by guitarist Robin Guthrie himself

There were some funny moments, but the longer it went, the more they had to stretch.

3 Body Problem was good enough for this.

If you do an encore with him, the single most random role he’s probably ever played was as Ishmael in the 3 am, purchased time slot for a single airing of the one off Winter Dragon to keep the Wheel of Time series TV rights with their then-owner for another few years.

Yep. No idea if anything like that actually happened but a great plausible scene of how you got stuff done in the Soviet Union.

The Times article has several actors who make the point that screen time is a significant factor of who might win in a category, hence the concern over men dominating an open awards race. I don’t think we’d really want to see a ‘Best Primary Actor (who appeared in more than 50% of running time)’ category, but far be…

before making a mark in The Dirty Dozen, a film which led to his breakout role in M.A.S.H

Yeah, it’s been pretty amazing to see what I remember spending far too much time wondering where I was going to sit, let alone eat, let alone find a power outlet. But I think you see what I meant about JFK in comparison back then, because while it wasn’t ever a particularly good airport, LGA was so far down that it…

JFK was always just ok at best, but I’d argue a significant part of its appeal to anyone in the Tri State area came from it not being La Guardia or Newark.

And here he hires his boss, DA Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp), as his lawyer for the trial.

I wouldn’t be surprised if nowadays when most people think of his pre-Price of Right work their first response would be his hosting of Whose Line is it Anyway?   Would make sense given it’s been on continuous reruns, where the Drew Carey show hasn’t.

I think the old show is continuously streaming on Google TV.

“Glen Powell was in a sex scene in Everybody Wants Some!!”

Shade or not, I loved Carey’s restrained WTF reaction.

You know, since GoT falls on my ‘nope, might go back and kill an hour on an episode or two if I have some nostalgia but ain’t never doing a series rewatch’ list, I actually had to look up the wiki summary of S5 to recall more than my hazy memory from a decade back.

I think the criticism of the last 3 seasons was entirely justified, but that they still don’t get nearly enough credit for cleaning up the mess of the books before they got overwhelmed (and more than a little arrogant in deciding not to bring a slug new writers in to the room when they started needing to create.)