Nobody asked her about her truly career-defining role, far exceeding any movie or album of hers? I speak of course, of the magical dumpster-living singing waif in the 2003 episode of Clone High, Snowflake Day. Edit -- Sorry, wrong article.

I know that’s the common jokey interpretation, but the whole point is that he gave the bratty kids their appropriate punishment in the way classic German tales like Max & Moritz did. The lesson is “don’t be a brat” which a lot of kids could learn from.

Not really, it seems accurate. Zach loves the potential of cinema so much he doesn’t infringe upon it by making movies that are better than mediocre. That way the potential remains untouched and pristine.

And conversely that someone can be a great artist and be a terrible person.

There’s the whole idea of “attractive nuisances”, though. If a neighbor kid trespasses into your yard and drowns in your pool you can be (successfully) sued for not restricting access to it by a fence or something.

Although if you remember Ferris had to decide on whether to get a computer  or a car from his parents. They certainly aren’t hurting, but probably not stinking rich people who’d give both without a thought

He’s a kid. He may be tenure track but it’s unlikely he would have tenure yet. And as I said earlier, NYU has special subsidized apartment buildings for faculty so they can live in the city . Those salaries look good for places like Des Moines but not so much for NYC (or even Washington DC where I am)

Exactly. I have friends who are professors at NYU. They even have to have special apartment buildings owned by the university that they rent out to professors because there's no way an academic can afford to live in Manhattan paying market rates.

Unfortunately it’s a real thing. Imagine if Hunter had died and Beau lived. Things would look rosier for next fall.

They don’t even need to write a script! Just use Brecht’s play.

Hey, compared to 300, it was practically a documentary!

I think you are confusing bomb with another explosive, dynamite.

It was basically the Douglas Adams’ Restaurant at the End of the Universe ending played as if it were serious — the ancestors of humanity are incompetent aliens!

That’s the problem with the Internet. It’s pretty clear the reason Westworld went off the rails was that the fanbase figured out the whole thing and so the showrunners felt they had to do something different even if it made no sense just to prove the fans wrong.

But Jack’s father was dead, so why would we trust anything he says? Ghosts are evil.

And why does he not just eat the other five?

Was Alan Dean Foster too busy?

Like the series, it’s mixed in meaning. The movie was based on a book by a surgeon at an actual MASH during the Korean War, but yes, why was Altman making a movie of it in 1970? Clearly, the anti-war and anti-military feelings the author had about the Korean War were applicable to Vietnam.

He himself made Gipper references just like Arnold made Terminator ones!

Not to mention the obvious parody /homage to him in The Venture Btos, Henchman 24.