I've find it interesting how during my life the pendulum has swung so dramatically. If you were a pre-adolescent in Reagan's America (as I was), the Just-Say-No propaganda held that marijuana was no less harmful than the "harder" drugs, and using it once would just ruin your life. It wasn't quite as severe as the…

Would I be the most unhip person on the planet if I admitted that when I see things like this my first thought is "Some people have too much time on their hands"?

I could be annoyingly technical and point out that the first episode ends with Nicole Brown's friend telling of how he was there when she returned from her first date with O.J. with ripped clothes, but I think you're more talking about did his character foreshadow anything.

Sounds like he's in need of some restraint.

I always saw "Under the Dome" and "11/22/63" as companion pieces, of a sort. They're both long, later-career books that show him in top form.

Making progress on the very-long-but-definitely-worth-it O.J.: Made in America. I'm at the point where they're doing a timeline of what happened the day of the murders.

I think one of the poignancies of being young is that, when the summer ends, you know there's always next summer, but you also know that by next summer there's no way you're going to be the same person you are now.

Wow, I remember seeing that as a little, little boy and thinking that it was a rather tense, emotionally raw experience.

How long was that vacation in "Dirty Dancing" supposed to be? The whole setup seemed odd to me. It's like, you have this scenario where the young people spend their evenings/nights amongst each other, with no oversight, and with the employees having their own cabins… it's like, why is the father so shocked when he…

It was pretty realistic how, after their girlfriends went to Europe, the two guys initially greeted their status with exuberance (freedom!), but after a while became bored and felt left behind, hence the impetus for the road trip.

And the camp manager's hoping the head cook's pedophilia doesn't get out of hand.

I was literally talking about that movie just the other day. I had missed a fast food breakfast by four minutes, and found myself pissed off about it beyond all measure. I told my wife about it and she pointed out that that's such a cliche occurrence that it has been featured in many movies and TV shows (and hence…

Obviously they're not movies, but the golden age of "The Simpsons" had many episodes that capture what summer's like as a kid… the aforementioned "Bart of Darkness," "Kamp Krusty" and "Summer of "4'2."

"Squirm"!? Holy shit. I was not expecting to see that movie on any AVQ&A list.

Although they're not necessarily "leads," I point to another '80s horror movie re: what I think is the greatest disparity:

Yes I have read "The Invisible Bridge." Friggin' loved the The Exorcist chapter (which, if I remember correctly, was where Perlstein posited that the reason the movie resonated so strongly was because so many parents felt they had lost their children to the counterculture, e.g., "That thing upstairs is not my daughter!…

Halloween III is a wonderfully discordant movie. It's like, you could probably point out 20-30 things about it that range from don't-make-any-sense to fucked-up.

"…exceptional performances from John Turturro, John Goodman, Michael Lerner, and Judy Davis…"

Objectively speaking I think those are factual statements. I've always said I'd like to live in a world where "Barton Fink" had as large a cultural footprint as "The Big Lebowski."

The whole Lipnick meeting is a masterpiece of writing and acting.