As much as I have problems with it as an adaptation - and frankly, considering how different it is from the novel, someone should try a new adaptation - it's hard to read L.A. Confidential, and not envision Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe as those characters. Pitch perfect casting.

Ain't no definitive Penguin without a Batman!

Sorry. Too spooky.

SNL has pretty draconian contracts. Depending on whether or not that contract kicks in with featured or main cast status, she might be locked in for at least another year, movie stardom be damned.

He was still considered quite the prestigious actor for a quite a few years after sound: his The Lash was one of the few films Warner Bros. deemed important enough to shoot in 65mm Vitascope. And even as late as Massacre, his last name alone was prestigious enough that WB printed it larger than the title of the film…

but transitioned very poorly to the 'talkies'

*shrugs* The are plenty fantastic pop songs on Before the Dawn Heals Us…

Very much so. That's my problem with the film: it's a hack-directed tv-movie grade Bond knock-off, propped up solely by those sections of film where Lee might as well have been directing himself. That, and some great supporting acting.

That cardboard cutout had screen presence!

Spinoff Idea #16:Armando Ianucci directing a cutting satire of the Imperial military-industrial complex.

It's frankly what I'm hoping for: a heroically pessimistic men-on-a-mission film in space opera clothing.

Yeah, but dumb action films is kinda Vishcakes's thing. If he pans the film, you should be worried.

Alain Robbe-Grillet died too soon!

For exposing them to too much awesome?

And, interestingly enough, Out Magazine. His recent rave of Batman vs. Superman essentially champions it as a dom-sub gay fantasy, something he seems to have entirely omitted when writing about it in the National Review. Hmmmm….

Not important? Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment? Kamasi Washington? Emily's D+Evolution? Fusion is as hip as it's been in decade!

Her hosting gig on SNL. Bill Murray had a major hard-on for her during the whole show, and with good reason.

That happened a few times with early Womp It Up as well. I suspect an engineer messing up.

This podcast must eventually intersect with Don DiMello, be it as a second ep, or part of S2 of Andy Daly's Podcast Project.

I initially wrote him as a sort of nebbish-nerd, but along with that, he has an odd mix of enthusiasm, empathy and (usually well-placed) New Jersey prickishness that comes through in his improv work.