So, basically The Starlost?

I’ve heard Carlin was a good guy, but I wouldn’t count him as an exemplar of humility: “You see, I’ve got this real moron thing I do, it’s called ‘thinking.’ And I guess I’m not a very good American, because I like to form my own opinions; I don’t just roll over when I’m told. Most Americans roll over on command. Not…

In Breach one contradiction I thought was interesting was that when we first meet Hanssen he seems like an asshole but when we get to know him better he seems more like a kind family man at heart, so it’s one of those cases where our surface impression is more accurate than our “deeper” impression.

House of Cards (which I just watched) was the first streaming show people talked about a lot and putting a whole season’s worth of episodes on the website at once was a big reason for that, so I’m guessing they weren’t expecting other streaming services to go with the old TV model of releasing one new episode a week.

I think it’s interesting to compare that film with Breach, another Billy Ray film based on a real person, considering that in that movie Robert Hanssen’s demeanor is pretty much the opposite of Hayden Christensen’s Stephen Glass.

I think it’s a good movie, but one issue I had was that I find it hard to believe that laying on the sad puppy act that thick would get people on his side. Would you be more inclined to like someone who’s that desperate for you to like them?

“Are you mad at me?”

I haven’t listened to any of the Firefly DVD commentaries, but I read that one of them mentions that the actors were encouraged to interrupt and talk over the other to sound more natural.

The Hemsworth analogy below makes me imagine Stephen killing Biden while yelling “Always be closing!”

And yet John Wilkes Booth is the most famous American actor of the 19th century. So much for “We want to hear his name no more.”

Joss is definitely the best-known of his TV writing family.

How well-known was Booth before that?

The thing that made me curious is that I’ve noticed a lot of progressives these days scoff at the idea that image matters when trying to push for justice. Like, back then they would’ve said something like “If the fact that Colvin’s poor, dark-skinned, and pregnant out of wedlock stops them from supporting civil rights…

Do you think that would’ve worked?

Blue states, red states, and?

James DeMonaco co-wrote the screenplay for the Robin Williams movie Jack.

Home-reno in Reno must be really confusing.

“Oh, and remember: next Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day!”

Crypto wasn’t a thing yet so neither was cryptobigotry.

“Ageing”?