Well, “Video Killed the Radio Star” kind of sums up early MTV — standard-def video, Look At Me, Ma! video effects, dorky-looking musicians running around trying to act while models wear weird fetish-y outfits, and “sets” either borrowed from studio backlots or cobbled together ten minutes before production had begun.

Yep — we always come back to Reagan....

I know what you mean — I hated Reagan with a passion, because he’d been Governor of CA when we moved back there, so I saw the damage he was capable of (besides, he was a B-Movie actor, not someone intelligent and competent!).

And that’s the problem with trading on a “Professional Nice Person” persona. You pretty much have to be that way all the time....

Glamour industries like television and publishing do tend to start off as low-paying jobs. When I first met my future wife, she was working as an assistant to a literary agent, and was making $0.50 an hour more than I was working a minimum-wage job! When I look back, I wonder how we both even survived living in NYC…

You’d still think, for reasons like this, that unions would want to take some action, if only to prove that to their membership that they’re still worth the dues they’re paying.

Yeah, SAG cutting health insurance was — special.

You’re awful protective of Ellen DeGeneris, Spiderweb.

Why, yes!

When Harry Truman was President of the US, he had a sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here”.

Still, it will all be worth it for a Prime Kermodian Rant, like he did for the theatrical cut.

Which, unlike any version of this movie, is actually extremely good at worst, and excellent at its frequent best.

You got it in one, Laserface1242!

Really liking where your head’s at, dirtside.

It’s the same problem Apple has, Spiderweb — they carry on like they’re still a couple scrappy dudes building personal computers in their parents’ garage, not a $2 TRILLION dollar global behemoth having their devices built under sweatshop conditions in China!

Didn’t care until it embarrassed her personally, and might affect her Public Ms. Sweetness&Light reputation.

Far as I can tell, we don’t know which she is, which leads to the musical question, “Are you a Sociopath Who’s Gotten Really Good at Tearing Up on Cue, Ellen — or are you just so entitled it never occurred to you to find out?”

Sorry, Froot Loop — my Bollywood movie group went on an Old Hollywood Musicals kick right before Shelter-in-Place hit (three of our four regulars are older with compromised immune systems, and the fourth’s a Grandpa to a two-year old from his HIV-Positive daughter!), so we saw most of the Ruby Keeler musicals from…

ROFTL, Janet! How about 42nd Street, where they had a 1:1 scale of Times Square set on a theater stage?

This - so many times over.