They know well in advance. When I went to a taping a few years ago, they handed audience members the date on a little postcard so you know when to tune in to the show you were at, though I guess that could always be pre-empted by unexpected circumstances.

I kept scrolling and scrolling the comments waiting for this one to pop up. I was watching it alone late at night and at a particular moment my body let out an involuntary and inhuman groan followed by some intense full body sobbing the likes of which I’d never experienced before or since. Usually I’m more of a stoic,…

I quite liked Ace in the Hole, The Apartment, and The Lunchbox which I watched all for the first time this summer

That reminds me watching season 2 of Jack Ryan on Prime and halfway through an entirely Spanish-speaking scene, I realized there were supposed to be subtitles, but when you turn them on you’d get subtitles for all the English parts too, so you’d have to flip them on and off constantly.  Or leave them on all the time,…

I haven’t started listening to it yet, but there’s a new 5-episode podcast about Almost Famous with interviews with all the key creatives involved. I presume that’ll be the proper oral history you’re looking for: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/origins-with-james-andrew-miller/id1266445999

OTGW is 75% why I clicked on this article and was sad to see it not covered

That’s hilarious that even in an audio-only format he’ll still portray animals

Well, as long as he finishes M:I7 & 8 first, go for it

It’s been 12 years, but I still think this is the definitive Mario 2 jazz cover:

I’m glad this was mentioned! She has an interesting book that combines recipes with behind the scenes material from filming Hannibal

Everyone likes to comment and pile on about the “lasting cultural impact” of Avatar (basically echoing verbatim a popular Forbes article from five years ago that in itself seems to strangely have had a lasting impact on how the internet perceives the movie). The reason why this, Titanic, and presumably the next Avatar…

Since reading about it somewhere, I've always been curious to see (or even just hear) a young Jodie Foster and Johnny Whitaker performing Love (from Disney's animated Robin Hood) at the 1973 Oscars.  The best I could find was a screenshot: http://digitalcollections.o…