There was a script written for a post-divorce Disney-made “Toy Story 3".  There was going to be a recall of Buzz Lightyear toys.

“Monsters University” was the first alarming example of the “uh, we want another movie, but we can’t find a story” syndrome.  Just like non-Pixar product “Frozen 2", which sucked, and to be honest “Toy Story 4", which was better than those other two movies but was still a franchise running out of gas, popping out…

Memory escapes me but in Lightning’s big establishing character moment in the first movie, there’s this one guy in his pit crew that he keeps calling Chuck, I think, even though the pit crew guy isn’t named Chuck.  The pit crew guy yells “My name is not Chuck!”, or something.  I once saw a Cars toy of that character,…

The plot of the first one is about Lightning McQueen wanting to win the big race, which is as kid-friendly a plot as it gets.  I haven’t seen “Cars 3", the only Pixar film I skipped.

It’s a good movie. But there *are* some raps against it, namely Larry the Cable Guy, the fact that it’s basically a straight-up ripoff of “Doc Hollywood”, and how even though it’s a genuinely good movie, it’s a step down from “WALL*E”, which was a moment of pure artistic genius.

“Do the cars in Pixar’s Cars get old?”

All revolutions boil down in the end to whether the police/authority are willing to shoot. In Russia in 1917, they weren’t; in Eastern Europe in 1989 they weren’t. In Beijing in 1989 they were.

As I already mentioned last week, I can’t recommend strongly enough the biography, “Charlatan”, by Pope Brock. It tells Brinkley’s life story, but it also weaves it together with the history of “male vigor” quackery and other quacks, how there were legitimate doctors with real degrees in this era who thought there…

I was going to say “was there really a downfall and disgrace?”, and then I went to her Wikipedia article and read about how she got popped for shoplifting twice (and she wasn’t poor, apparently her estate was worth $3.3 million), how she became “estranged” from her adopted son when he was only 12 and apparently never…

That’s well-spotted.  Kimmel and Carolla came off like goofy 12-year-olds in grown-up bodies.  Rogan and Stanhope came off like creepy pervs.

Boy I wish we still had downvotes.

My God, I’d forgotten that “Save Me” was also in that group.  That’s got to be one of the biggest Oscar whiffs ever.

Funny how an angry mob ganging up on one person and screaming at her is portrayed as something cool and good.

It was amazing, how much the difference was when Stanhope and Rogan became the hosts.  Watched one episode, super gross, never watched again.

It would be weird that Twitter dug up some garbage from 20 years ago to get pissed off about, but we’re talking about Twitter, where not all that long ago people got all pissed off about a John Wayne interview from 1970 or something.  God cancelled John Wayne back when Carter was president but still, somehow, we got a…

I never missed an episode of “The Man Show” when Kimmel and Carolla were the hosts, but man, Jimmy Kimmel should probably just pretend that the whole thing never happened.

The fact that she brutally murdered two people probably indicates that she *was* crazy.

Yup. Poor Don Draper. Alcoholic, bad husband, ridden with guilt and demons from his childhood. Took his kid to see “Planet of the Apes”!  Found nirvana on a cliff by the ocean! Never let a drug addict choke to death, never killed a guy by setting off a bomb in an old folks’ home...

Hannibal Lecter, Walter White, and Don Draper are fictional characters, whereas Betty Broderick is a real person who really killed two people.  This is an extremely poor comparison (and Don Draper wasn’t even a fictional murderer, so it’s a doubly bad comparison).

“the focus here is on the woman as wronged victim”