I actually was tempted enough to click on the stupid thing. It turns out some other actor from Flashdance died, and apparently that was their justification for going with a still from the film featuring Beals.

Never heard of it.

Can the Internet now also get rid of the listicle that keeps popping up for me around here: "37 Celebrities Who Died and You Never Noticed"? Or at least change the photo that's used from Jennifer Beals, who is in fact very much alive?

I guess it comes down to how you define "destitute." Here's the IMDB write-up from the page for Limelight, which jibes with what Keaton's widow and biographer have to say in that same book:

That's a rumor that's persisted for decades. I'm not saying I know it's definitely not true, but this is what I said in response to a similar comment below:

Check out Buster Keaton Remembered, written by Eleanor Keaton and Jeffrey Vance. Both Keaton's biographer and his widow agree that Keaton loved his appearance in the finished film.

A variation on an excerpt from this review would read something like, "Alas, Citizen Kane fails to make a case for Kane as one of media's towering figures. His big 'Declaration of Principles,' in which he sets out everything he believes in, are later violated one by one, and while the initial flash forward suggests…

"Sadder still, Limelight’s climactic benefit concert features the sole onscreen collaboration between Chaplin and Buster Keaton, with the latter in the tiny role of Calvero’s former partner. It’s a total bust. Keaton, who was six years younger than Chaplin (so only 57 at the time), is given little to do apart from…

In the history books it's referred to as New Hollywood cinema. IFC has a great documentary about it—featuring many of the directors, actors, and screenwriters associated with it—called A Decade under the Influence—and there's another doc (based on a very good book) called Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that covers a lot of…

I think it is probably the reason, yes. In the discussion over in the Experts Review dozens of people were complaining about it (or upvoting others that were complaining about it), saying that it makes the rape of a woman all about the reaction/redemption of a man.

I'm thinking of how now book readers are complaining that the show excised Jeyne and gave Sansa that story arc with Ramsay, while non-book readers (and some book readers—the shit being said in the Experts thread last night often amounted to it'd-be-okay-if-it-were-Jeyne) are complaining that Sansa was too central a…

Newbies, alternate reality, 5 years ago: "Ugh. This show already has too many characters! Who's this Jeyne Poole I have to follow now? And what a ridiculous name!"

Go-Go's or Tears for Fears?

Simmons just got publicly fired, more or less, last Friday, and he's been maintaining radio silence since then.

Disqus posts links to stories between sites that use it for comments. Anything that's outside of AVC's normal wheelhouse (like sports) or that has even a whiff of larger social implications (like when allegations against Woody Allen were back in the news) and you'll notice non-familiar avatars and "noms de…

I'm a Pats fan (born and raise, going back to 1980, and through thick and thin i still admit it), but if I ever switched allegiances it'd be to the Packers for that very reason. I wish more cities had that kind of public ownership over their sports franchises.

He has to bitch about something every week. If it wasn't this it'd be something else.

Wouldn't Lady Stoneheart make a nice replacement for Frances Farmer?

I had an irrational (emphasis on irrational—I know it makes no sense) dislike of her for the longest time because she got credit in the mainstream music press and on MTV and blah, blah, blah for offering these trailblazing confessional lyrics about female sexuality and illicit blow jobs , when Liz Phair (and others…

And for not having any characters I really even give a shit about, unlike RotJ.