I disapprove, but I'm an asshole like that. Hollywood's ratio of good adaptations to rubbish is too skewed to warrant optimism.

Pointing out the ridiculousness of Vanilla Ice is a rhetorical redundancy akin to pointing out that the sun rose today, but one of those outrage moments nonetheless occurred recently when I saw a commercial for some cooking reality show he was on. He held up his rice-based dish to the camera, smiled widely and said,…

Her friend died of the plague… the BUBONIC Plague!!!

My knowledge of him is very limited. I do remember liking "FIgure 8" and listening to it a lot.

Yeah, any fan of '90s music can say this about so many bands, but… it is really unfair that MP is relegated to one-hit-wonder status. The first and second were good albums. The third (MP3) did one of the biggest miscalculations I've ever seen in music: the first single was a song that had been on a movie soundtrack…

I remember hearing that there was some sort of battle over which band was gonna get to use that painting for their album cover: MP or the Butthole Surfers… as much as I thought "Shapeshifter" was a good album, I have to admit that the cover is more in the Butthole Surfers mode, even if their career was all-but over by…

I picked '20 years' arbitrarily. I should've written 'subsequent generations' or something.

That's a weird story (and tragic, of course).

"Intolerance" gives film critics an easy out, i.e., instead of including BoaN on best-movies lists, they can simply substitute "Intolerance" and still recognize Griffith's contributions to the medium.

I'm speculating, of course, but he inherited some of his views from his father, who was a heroic confederate soldier in the Civil War… like most of his kind post-war, he believed the south was just fine before the north got all up in their shit.

Just finished a good book about the subject, juxtaposing Griffith and a black civil-rights firebrand who tried to get BoaN banned.

I know why it stuck with me… 'dat ass.

Yes. There was also a TV spot which, if my memory serves, had the sound of a boy reading the note.

I actually had such a similar conversation during a job interview, of all things. We talked about how much we missed the act of walking through video stores, music stores, etc.

For me "Sleepaway Camp" was an anomaly: I found the cover art to be generic, pedestrian. Then a few years later I saw the movie and realized that, actually, the movie was unprecedentedly twisted and weird.

Ah, yes, MJ's "edgy" phase.

Just having heard the radio ads for this, it sounds like yet another of the "We-Dare-You-Not-to-See-It-You-Racist-Prick! movies.

Even among those who have criticized Kyle and this movie, it's weird that they're missing what - to me - is the most notable thing about all this: Kyle was a liar, and much of his legend appears to be just that.

Ups and downs.

Totally agree with the "unpatriotic" point. Yes, given that it's a juicy expose that ties into the most popular and talked-about movie of the moment, you'd think media outlets would be horny over this story. But, so far, crickets.