That seems remarkably dumb.

There’s a shell of a man in those also named “John Cusack” but there’s no way that’s the same actor.

“Folk soundtrack”? What tracks would you consider folk? Okay, there was one Simon & Garfunkel track on the soundtrack, but even that was from their post-folk period. Rock isn’t all heavy metal. Bowie, the Beach Boys, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rob Stewart, etc. are very much rock.

When the LA Times published, “It’s ‘The Bachelor: Campaign Trail.’ Which of Biden’s veep candidates deserves the rose?,” they deservedly received a lot of backlash for publishing such a sexist piece. They even apologized. I’m disappointed to see this trope used again here.

I get the distinct impression that they fall prey to the most common misconceptions that most people who didn’t watch much Star Trek seem to: That TOS was actually “The Wild Wild West,” only set in the future, i.e. a show about guy who was constantly screwing, getting into fist fights, and finding himself in…

Yeah, the first episode of this sucked pretty hard. Loud, frantic, noisy and annoying show’s overriding tone. The dialogue is delivered in such a ridiculously rapid fire fashion, as if to disguise the fact that it’s not actually clever or funny or worth listening to.

I dunno, I feel like I’ve seen a million mentions of Hamilton being in super tip-top shape in T2. Including in this very article.

The video for “You Could Be Mine” - not just promoting new GN’R at peak GN’R, promoting this movie, but showing us all (well, a lot of) the craziest CGI effects from the movie that we had no idea could even be done - was and might still be the purest hype object I’ve ever seen.

The M67 uses an M213 fuse, which burns for four seconds. About seven seconds pass between the actor beginning his run away from the prop at 3:35 and the pyrotechnic going off around 3:42.

I’m trying to think of another actor who gave such an astonishing performance as she did in “Gone Girl” and who has so utterly failed to to land another project since that measured up to it. She actually reminds me a lot of Gene Tierney. Both played femme fatales for which they were Oscar nominated, and both had…

1) So... The Mists of Avalon?

Subs would never close with a warship on the surface. That’s suicide. But at night they would surface and lie in wait, at least before radar was common. Shoot, then submerge would be the tactic.

So much this. Roger Ebert once discussed a Motown documentary he had loved with a musician who had grown up in Detroit. The musician explained all the things they got wrong, to which Ebert said “that’s why you can’t watch a documentary when you know the subject.”

I was suspecting that the author wasn’t old enough to know or remember what it was like. Even those short films they used to run on Sesame Street (me & my llama, the girl who bakes cookies) looked so depressing to me as a kid. Like they were extras in the French Connection or Serpico.

Because journalism is its own discipline that requires years of practice and study to get good at. People who can master multiple disciplines are rare, and by the time you’ve mastered one you may well be too old (for all practical purposes) to start a new one.

You know what’s weird? I knew this was based on a book, and I was ALSO just thinking (which is to say, thinking aloud over on Twitter) that I associate this movie with Funny Farm because they were both big HBO-watches for me during my “watch anything with the old SNL guys” phase (which was a little weird because this…

I mean, it’s not like it’s great to walk through Downtown Crossing late now — there’s not a lot of stuff open anymore so foot traffic is dead and there’s a lot of people scoring/dealing. The Combat Zone at least had people walking the street.

I was from a small town in the western U. S. and in 1968, I was at the Port Authority Bus Terminal at night. That was enough for me.

Maybe now, with the wisdom that sometimes comes with age, you’ll be better-equipped to enjoy it.

“Henry? This is your mother. Carl says the computer is broken again. Can you help him fix it, with only his description of what’s going on, from thousands of miles away? This will only take all day.”