Me too. In fact, I once asked him (during the Q&A after a reading at Barnes & Noble) if he would sing in the voice of Billie Holiday, but he refused.

I'm angry because you incorrectly included the word "the," which threw me off figuring what song you were referencing, and then when I googled and found out I wanted to punch myself in the head because I love that song.

It was there in one scene, but it disappeared soon after. I figured they might show her wearing some kind of jury-rigged scarf, since their shirts don't cover their necks at all.

The hit man tries to strangle Alex with a belt, but hours later she has no visible bruises and can speak without a problem?

I don't know about it being invented by National Cash Register, but we used to call it NCR paper, and I was told that NCR stood for "no carbon required."

Hey, writer: The plural of Duplass is Duplasses.

I believe you mean "Nice stems."

Not sure if you've heard of Humans of New York, wherein a photographer, Brandon Stanton, asks interesting-looking people in NYC if he can take their photo; he also does a brief interview with them, and he usually includes a quote along with the photo on his blog. Back in 2012 he happened to see Elaine Stritch…

The film may be equally prejudiced to all, but I've always found it bizarre that the TV edit censors all the N-words but leaves in "chink." It also censors Lili von Shtupp to "Lili von Shhh" — because apparently we need to protect children's ears from dirty words in Yiddish — even though her name appears on a sign…

I totally agree. I don't watch many shows with child actors, but she's the worst I can remember.

I find it less weird than someone calling a movie "Napoleon Dynamite" and claiming they'd never heard of that as an Elvis Costello pseudonym.