It being the first sitcom I ever watched in nighttime syndication, I didn’t realize how weird a show “Soap” was, tone-wise. But it was ferociously entertaining, and she did steal virtually any scene she was in, which was also the point of her character.

The thing I could never get past with this movie was its lighthearted treatment of prostitution. This of course isn’t an original take, and was even sent up on Saturday Night Live with Mike Myers playing the businessman.

Agreed. The foster brother thing in SPECTRE was basically the nadir of the gritty-reboot-tortured-soul-origin-story trend in screenwriting... and it’s not like it’s always been bad, even, but it felt really fucking strained when applied to a character known for wry quips, drinking, and aforementioned sex with absurdly…

The actress, Gabrielle Carteris, has made a good career for herself, if not necessarily in front of the camera, so kudos to her.

I was wondering if someone would mention “Bartleby.” Yeah, its existence does really back up that “nothing new under the sun” viewpoint.

Just personally, I was very glad I didn’t see this movie when it came out because I was basically living Peter’s existence (things got better). I was just out of college and my friend got me a legal temp job at one of the many businesses in our “Tech Center.” I was disenchanted with it all and was really starting to…

A buddy got free tickets to a monster truck show in 2004, so a few of us went and we didn’t have a terrible time. The beer goes down easy at such things.

Really? I guess it’s all a matter of perspective, but I remember that being a pretty big deal, and there being a real question of whether or not he would overcome the scandal.

Food for thought: same year “The Simpsons” premiered. 

“The fact that people found humor in what happened is equally disturbing.”

Hey, you may not have heard of her, but to the white 60+ crowd she’s quite the celebrity.

From what I remember of smoking pot and listening to music in college in the early to mid ‘90s, I never really saw it as a compliment to say that something sounded good while high. I remember that while high pretty much ANY song would blow my mind, and then you’d listen to it the next day and be confused...

Many people probably remember the scene from “Singles” where Matt Dillon is at the table with his band and they get their latest review. Matt Dillon tells them to read it out loud but skip anything negative. In a bit of pretty good comedic timing from the Pearl Jam guys, the guitarist is quiet for a while as he reads,…

My wife always found the song “Summer of ‘69" to be a tearjerker (which I guess I KIND of understand, but whatever). She was authentically disappointed when Bryan Adams said it was actually a sexual reference. 

I can’t really predict anything from the trailer, but I’d agree that the Mike Nichols film very much captured the spirit of the book. It’s just hard to make a movie out of the book because it switches gears so abruptly. It’s like, one moment it’s a WWII version of “Animal House” and the next it’s an existential…

I hope I’m getting the quote right, but I remember when Jon Stewart came on a talk show hosted by Tucker Carlson, and they started arguing about the latter’s journalism malpractice, and Carlson tried to deflect the accusation by saying that Stewart wasn’t a responsible journalist, and Stewart yelled “I follow a show…

I just reread the novel some 20 years after the first time. I hate to use such a canned term, but I forgot how politically incorrect so much of the book is. I can easily think of a half-dozen scenes there’s no way they’d include in this remake (counted two separate uses of the n-word, for instance).

My father was in the military, and one day we were discussing the novel “Catch-22" (I think on the day of Joseph Heller’s death, actually). He referred to the scene where the superior rolls by in his Jeep and yells at Major Major “You’ve been promoted to squadron commander. Don’t think it means anything because it…

Re: “Cold Pursuit”

Depending on when you came up, this guy was ALWAYS around, and I mean that as a compliment.