Now wait just a goddamn minute, this better not mean Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar is cancelled.

“Maria Alexandrova”

Here are two possible explanations, which may be complementary.

Paul McCartney had a pretty great Bob Costas interview.  I remember specifically him talking about how Michael Jackson had bought the rights to his songs.

Meh. “Into the Unknown” was just as inferior as everything else in that movie. The whole film was a half-assed knockoff, the sort of thing that would have gone straight to video back in the day.

Don’t get me wrong, I *liked* seeing the topless women.

I’ve never seem any of these films but I sure did enjoy the Abridged Scripts at The Editing Room.

Ha, here’s the first line from a Tom Shales article at the Washington Post:

That movie was hot garbage.

The only man to appear in a Pixar film in live action.

My dad loved that show, apparently.  Just one of a million things I’ve long meant to watch.

Lots of Catherine the Great stuff going around.  Amazon Prime has some Russian series called “Ekaterina” starring a very very good looking woman as Catherine the G.  Three seasons to date.

The sole value of this franchise was as a delivery vehicle for showing topless women.

One of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets is that Tom Cruise is actually a really good actor.

“What I mostly remember is she seemed mostly interested in using the books to write softcore.”

Wanna see an ugly rich guy house? Check out the monstrosity that was built at the end of Cielo Drive, on the site of the Sharon Tate murder house.  Looks like somebody chewed some bubble gum, swallowed it, and barfed it back up in a house-shape.

I don’t know you but I’m happy to recommend terrible things for you to watch and read!  Start with, I dunno, “Full House”.

“You’re not allowed to tap out until you get to the one where Lestat time travels and drinks the blood of Jesus”

I remember reading these books around the time frame that the Tom Cruise movie came out.  They’re garbage, just utter crap.  I stuck with the vampire books up until the one where Lestat was the singer in a rock band.  Was foolish enough to read the first “Mayfair Witches” book, which was also bad, and featured a…

Resolved: this, one of the greatest books in English literature, has never been done really well. The less said about the Gwyneth Paltrow version, the better. And the David Lean version, while it has its moments, suffers from John Mills being at least 20 years too old to play Pip, as well as an unsatisfying ending.