I just hope the children don't hear about his habit of running with scissors.

Actually, Soon-Yi is Farrow's adopted daughter.

I can't help but imagine all these great cartoon characters observing a moment of silence and thinking, "The next time I open my mouth, I'll never sound the same again."

But if it does, who should direct it?

I checked another review that refers to the character as a corporal and a clip I looked at seems to show two stripes on McBurney's jacket. Maybe the review is in error.

Colonel John McBurney? I thought the character was a corporal in the book. Or did Sophia Coppola give him a promotion?

I did make a comment along the same lines yesterday if you feel like looking it up, although I was not quite as emphatic as you.

I think you could compare Trump to Shakespeare's Richard III. Both pursue power for it's own sake and, when they achieve it, use up all their energy trying to maintain it. Both are overwhelmed by a sense of illegitimacy as witnessed by Trump's insistence that he would have won the popular vote and his obsession…

"Holy Grim Reaper, Batman!"

How about a compromise? Suspend Maher for two weeks without pay, but only if HBO replaces it with "Real Time with Noam Chomsky." (Considering how tiresome Maher has become lately, Chomsky might actually be funnier.)

Personally, I would have preferred it if they dropped Kevin James & did a show with Leah Remini & Erinn Hayes.

I agree. I heard a story once that James Whale got a phone call at around two o'clock in the morning shortly after the movie came out. The caller asked Whale if he was the director of Frankenstein. When Whale replied in the affirmative, the man said, "Well, I'm not getting any sleep tonight and I don't know why you…

Yuck.

On the other hand, Moore didn't feel too strongly about using the Charlton characters. In the afterword to Watchman he wrote, "what we had here was a fairly straightforward superhero story. Any superheroes would have done." He seemed to feel that losing the emotional weight of using lost-established characters was…

I meant younger than the previous versions of the character.

You're talking about the scene where Aunt May says, "You know, Peter, since I'm your father's sister-in-law, that means we're not biologically related." Which will explain why they cast a younger Aunt May.

It might be they are looking at demographics as well. As time goes on, I don't know if younger moviegoers would want to go through the all of the prior movies to figure out all of the nuances of what is going on. With all of the planned movies, We'll have three movies each of Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, Iron Man,…

But Alan Moore didn't use the Charlton characters. When it was clear he was veering too far from the originals, the decision was made to make up new characters. Even if their antecedents are obvious, Nite Owl and Rorschach are not the Blue Beetle and the Question.

Whatever Trump is smoking, could he please legalize it? It might make the next four years tolerable. (Nah. Nothing is that strong.)

I watched the episodes again this morning and I think your purgatory hypothesis has a good deal of validity. Micheal's comment that letting his charges torment each other could last a thousand years implies that their time is limited. Perhaps Micheal and his cohorts are only allowed to directly inflict a certain…