And don't forget the Joe Henry/Madonna cover: Guilty By Association. Pretty good, pretty good.

Yeah, I haven't seen it either, so fair enough. I guess I'm more sticking up for Dowd's questioning of the changing of facts, timelines etc, or at least for the idea that it's not automatically wrong to do so. As far as how well that applies to the film itself…I'd have to actually see it. :-)

Well, what I took Dowd to mean is that if you're eliding, condensing, etc, for the sake of story or even character development, that's one thing. But it's another if you think your story gets as some sort of essential truth. If you elide, condense, etc, to "arrive" at that truth, then your story inherently doesn't…

Oh is that what we're calling terrorists now in our ultra PC age?

I'm guessing IV will have to prove itself at the box office in order to get any Oscar consideration. My intuition, based on nothing but what I gather to be the film's tone, is that its commercial prospects are limited…which means its Oscar prospects are too, since the reason for a mass-audience aversion would probably…

That's what she said.

You go ahead. We'll tell you whether it's interesting. 😉

Danny Huston seems like weird casting anyway…why cast someone as Nixon, then cast a guy who actually looks quite a bit like Nixon in another role?

That's almost as good as my sister singing Another One Bites the Datsun when she was about six. I think it was Freddie Mercury's "uh" at the end of the line that got her.

Well, you're in luck.

Yeah, but you're his brother, you would say that.

Well, it is the best kind of masturbating.

And by the way, Merry Clayton's own version of the song is terrific too. Not as great as the Stones', but great. And I prefer her version of Southern Man to Neil Young's.

Sh!

Haven't seen it since it was on. Late 80s, I think? I remember it very fondly, yet wonder if it will hold up on the other side of "the golden age" of tv. The season long "arc" structure was mindbendingly wonderful at the time. Now that that's pretty common…?

Another good example of how the show did a nice job of having a character in each organization kinda "mirror" each other, without hitting you over the head about it.

I saw a partial reunion of The Wire on the Internet a couple weeks ago when I watched that Bad Lip Reading thing of The Walking Dead.

Now even the vulgar masses can do it.

Don't cloud the issue with facts. But seriously…fair enough.

Haven't you heard? The minute Nora Ephron died, we were supposed to consider everything she did brilliant.