You know, when you put it that way, maybe Baldwin just doesn't quite understand the concept of acting. "And let me tell you about the time I met Ian McKellan. Bastard doesn't even have a big wizard beard. That was all Hollywood bullshit."

Huh. I just saw the trailer for this earlier today, and I had no clue what the plot was. There was no hint of an evil estranged grandmother. Literally the only things I learned about the movie were a) it is about an adorable little girl who knows calculus, and b) she has a one-eyed cat, which her classmates think…

Yeah, sure. Like a real human being is named "Scoot McNairy." Very funny.

I hope this pun thread doesn't take off.

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Ugh. What truly staggers me is how many otherwise normal people say burning your country's flag should be illegal.

I don't know about being "too hip," but I'm actually waaaay more interested in this movie now that I know it's emotionally honest magical realism. From the commercials I had seen, I thought it was some disposable "sci-fun" comedy along the lines of Pixels or something. I'm glad to read this review.

I think we are reading it basically the same way - Solnit seems to be saying that Hem's supposedly masculine prose style is actually hollow, mannered, and sentimental when he has deluded himself into thinking it's the opposite of those things. And I would argue that the distance between the "masculine" style and the…

Well, it's not a competition, and smart people disagree about texts. Solnit is an astute critic and a talented writer. She has done lots of good work that shouldn't be dismissed, even if we do think she has missed the point of Hemingway's work in a pretty major way.

Hey, everybody! An old man's talking!

"Good evening. Tonight my guest is AFL/CIO chairman George Meany, who will be discussing collective bargaining agreements."

Personally, I plan on leaving the clowning business to all the other clowns in the clowning business

And how much did you pay for
The chunk of his banjo?
The one he ruthlessly smashed
At the end of the show?

I don't care about the pretentiousness, I'm just really worried about that banjo. Seriously, that's bad for your instrument, Sufjan. Don't be like that.

Yeah, for some reason, all the ones in the article have four but the ones people are sharing here in the comments have a fifth category. It's a common strategy to have elements with a chance of appearing, so that could be it. Or it could be that the ones in the article were just an earlier version of the program.

"Based on a short story by Raymond Carver"

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There are four color-coded categories here: description/subject/setup/twist ending. If they actually used a new descriptor in each category from each episode of the first three seasons, that would be 102^4, or 108,243,216 possible combinations, putting odds of getting an exact match of an existing episode a little…

"Paul! Paul, it's Marvin! … Your cousin, Marvin Cézanne?"

And yet he isn't even one of the top three most talented Baldwins at resisting success.