Hail, Caesar!; The Bad and the Beautiful; Bowfinger; Singin' in the Rain; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; the deleted scene in The Godfather where the studio boss who earlier gave his underage starlet a pony is hanging out in her bedroom; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Adaptation; Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

Ever since her beautifully acid performance in Brick, I've been waiting for Nora Zehetner's career to take off. But after seeing her cameo in The Brothers Bloom and a few episodes of Mad Men, maybe that's not likely to happen. Was she a one-hit wonder? Is she good or at least fine in the Mark Maron TV show?

When it comes to performing exorcisms, she's really in a league of her own.

This sitcom needed like eighty more cooks.

"I've never seen Hollywood Homicide. Was it good?"

"The Ponies That Trot Away From Ponylas" by Ursula K. Le Pony-Guin

For me, it's this one and Harvey Danger's "Sometimes You Have To Work On Christmas (Sometimes)".

That kid knows too much Star Wars trivia. Why, I bet that smartypants is still a virgin!

What's a TO (or T&O) map?

Oh, how did that go. I think the pro-tippers were angrier at the anti-tipper because they had been waitresses and relied on those tips before turning to crime. But it's been awhile, and I like your riff too. http://www.citypages.com/ar…

I actually saw a staged version of Reservoir Bitches once. The (male) director was trying to be edgy. It was ok. The funniest bits were when the Mr. Orange analogue kept shrugging off her pain, and Ms. White apologized for being tetchy, blaming it on low blood sugar. The re-director had re-imagined Nice Guy Eddie and…

Ladies with speaking roles? Episode 2 also had the sanctimonious librarian, the cloner who was chummy with Jango, a Separatist leader with a bunch of neck rings, and a shapeshifting assassin (who might be best described as trans?). Oh, and a robot waitress. They certainly didn't have many lines, but the Separatist…

I thought this article was going to be about legendary video game designer Doug Church. Oh well.

No one remembers Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. There was Antonio Banderas, and Lucy Liu, and they were American DIA agents (not CIA, not DEA, but DIA) that were hanging out in Vancouver for some reason. A man falls off a building, and a trainyard explodes, and that's all I can remember of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.

There were a pair of YA books I adored when I was a kid, "The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids" and its sequel, "Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness". I forget where the parents were, but the entire nation fell into civil war between parents and students. There are heroes on both sides, but…

"I'm Mr. Mister! Look at me!"

I'll use that at my next wine tasting.

I completely agree. Just reworking the movie into four chapters (The Great Houses, Dune, Muad'Dib, and The Prophet) added so much to its structure, but all those other things you mentioned were fantastic. It's so beautifully baroque. This guy (girl?) made a trailer for it: https://youtu.be/MK5eoV93oyg . Really the…

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Like feces thrown by a monkey, time flies.