This thing restaurants do where they convince people to cook their own food and pay handsomely for it is pretty clever.

Three words from Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” in the scene where the Great Depression hits and Kane has to sell off a lot of his media partner. Kane says he could have been a great man if he weren’t so rich, Thatcher says don’t you think you were a great man, and Kane basically shrugs. Then Thatcher says “what…

Holy crap, I wish I had seen this before I posted the exact same line.

I don’t, but by lip-reading I think they’re saying “daaaamn.”

“IN MY ROOM! WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS!  Where my children play with their toys.”

He’s in a terrific series on TBS called “Miracle Workers”.  Second season starts up in a couple of weeks.

Slavery would have become entrenched in the southern colonies whether they were in the British Empire or not. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was patented barely a decade after the war ended. The obvious conclusion is that with a lot of British colonial subjects—a *lot*—owning slaves, then the British would have taken…

You know, amidst all the teeth-gnashing rage about “Little Women”, it’s easy to miss that it got nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Costume Design, Music, and Adapted Screenplay.  But let’s get angry!

>If the British had won, my ancestors would have been free sooner.

As for the actual topic of this article, this sounds terrible and will almost definitely be garbage, and it will probably get bad ratings to boot, because let’s face it, “Young Frankenstein” as fantastic as it is does not have the latter-day cultural imprint that Disney musicals do.

I watched that ABC live special of “The Little Mermaid” and it was pretty terrible.  The props were awful.  Most everybody in the cast except for Cravalho was pretty terrible.  The best thing about the show was Cravalho, who is lovely, but for some reason they put her in an awful red wig.  Note to producers: just…

Just to understand correctly, your suggestion is to take the work that started out as a movie, then became another movie, then became another musical, and...make another movie, or another musical?

Cruise ship!

The first “Frozen” was pretty good.  The second “Frozen” plays like something that would have gone straight to DVD not all that long ago, but now Disney’s figured out they can just release any old tripe to movie theaters and make a billion.

To me the “what do people see in this guy” guy is Eddie Redmayne. He looks like he should be collecting people’s tickets at a movie theater, not starring in the movie.

This guy always looks like he was auditioning for a boy band and went in the wrong door.

This is one of those shows where it seems like there would really need to be a lot of nudity for it to be interesting.

On the other hand, you are horribly wrong.

That’s one of the best parts of the movie.  Apollo sort of strutting against an opponent he doesn’t take seriously at all, and Rocky floors him with an uppercut out of nowhere.

That’s good screenwriting.  If Rocky the palooka started giving Apollo the fight of his life out of nowhere it would be silly. So Stallone has the trainer 1) observe how hard Rocky is punching and 2) note that Creed isn’t used to fighting southpaws.  Good writing.