Targets is a great debut movie, and one of the films that kick-started the “Roger Corman Film School” trope.

I had heard of Platt, originally as Bogdanovich’s wife and professional partner who got ditched for Cybil Sheppard(???), and then later as the screenwriter and Associate Producer on Pretty Baby, Executive Producer on Broadcast News, and Producer on Say Anything, War of the Roses, and the documentary Roger Corman:…

Girl thankfully gets an entire season on the YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Podcast — close to a decade after she died.

I enjoyed it -- it’s silly, but as network promos go it’s one of the better ones, right up there with “Trouble Sleeping? Take Sherlock!”, filled with bits of Holmes annoyingly awakening Watson at all hours....

Mac, don’t do it!

Can he play Der Fooey?

More to the point, Rowling was working off popular fantasy tropes that are racist, sexist and homo/transphobic.

Because that garbage fire isn’t going out on its own, but is spreading and starting to look a lot like Donald Trump?

The Ferengi as Jewish has been kind of obvious since they were first introduced in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

You think Nazis are Socialists, don’t you?

You’re right insofar as a lot of these are common fantasy tropes, but I’m not sure that excuses Rowling for using them.

and her boss is also her father, Dr. Rob Griffith (Jason Isaacs).

Ridley Scott seems incapable of that -- his movies are either (occasionally) great or usually meh to WTF?

At least you avoided it — I ended up in Learning Disabilities class for two years because the Army-run Junior High I was attending didn’t know how to deal with gifted kids!

TMZ first reported her death, which law enforcement authorities confirmed.

Well, you will shoot your eye out, loveinthetimeofcoronavirus.

Well, if you’d been shacking up with Phil “The Unabomber” Laak for the last 17 years, you’d probably be beating people’s asses at poker, too.

necgrey — then you’re not gonna like the film versions of Dune Messiah, Children of Dune or God-Emperor of Dune one little bit.

Hey, if Garth Marenghi says it, you know it’s right!

“With luck, we will see each other again in Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money.”