I'm trash-talking television. Endless goddamned commercial breaks. I don't know how people stand it.

Okay, so those three people who came onstage after the win: mom, dad, boyfriend?

There are some rounds in which random (or "random") letters appear on the board without the contestants having to select them. First person to ring in gets to try to solve the puzzle.

I don't know if intelligence agencies screen for that, but it seems to me the most obvious thing in the world that if spies could be openly gay, it would be impossible to blackmail them for that.

"Legally Blonde" is so sweet-natured and charming, why would anybody feel guilty about it? Plus: fun performances from Selma Blair, Linda Cardellini, Raquel Welch, Jennifer Coolidge, and Ali Larter.

Yeah, I don't understand the deep abiding hatred. It was a completely ridiculous movie that couldn't withstand a moment's scrutiny, but it was all kinds of fun. We can have the occasional movie that's just an entertainment dispenser without the world coming to an end.

Some critics laughed at the obviousness of the body double (1977 Penthouse Pet of the Year Victoria Johnson, in case you were wondering), but as Pauline Kael pointed out, it's her fantasy, and that's the body she has in her fantasy. It makes perfect sense.

Oh, calm down. You could do worse things with your day than looking at Austin Wilde.

It sure is. Complete control of tone from first frame to last. Hitchcock said he liked to play audiences like a piano, and that's what De Palma does.

I don't know if anyone would argue that Snake Eyes is a good movie, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, and Gugino is terrific in it.

Once you've seen Vertigo, watch it again but see it through Judy/Madeleine's eyes. She watches a woman who is her exact double get murdered, and suffers the guilt of knowing she had a hand in that murder. She gets stalked by an obsessed detective who may or may not be in love with her. She gets turned back into the…

I'd say "A Dirty Shame" is Waters' weakest movie by a huge margin. It's weirdly didactic ("this is what an adult baby is, and these are what bears are…"), and you can see him groping for but failing to find anything that looks like a coherent plot. Selma Blair is fantastic in it, and I guess fans of Tracy Ullman might…

You could just say "titty-fuck". Or "titwank" if you're British.

The audience for the book and movie series consists of people who believe that their version of Christianity is the only correct one, that they and only they will be the ones raptured, and that everyone else will be left on Earth to spend the rest of their days moaning, "They were right all along! If only I had…

Is "Family Viewing" his best? I always gave that laurel to "Speaking Parts", which just devastated me when I first saw it.

Well, it really kind of had to be one or the other of them, right? I mean, as soon as you hear the setup, you know there has to be a plot twist, and there are only so many possible resolutions.

If he does get a remake off the ground, can he find someone to play Sophia who can actually act? Because Jesus was Estelle Getty ever bad. She made the show pretty much unwatchable as far as I was concerned.

JDR's character is the best thing about the entire show. I love her so much in that.

The genius of the show is that it's a documentary history of gay culture disguised as a variety show disguised as a reality show, and all these layers bring up issues of class, race, privilege, and gender-as-performance in a fascinating, palatable way. It's fun as hell and thought-provoking at the same time: who…

Pet Shop Boys put a short hidden track at the end of "Very" called "Ecstasy": the first time I heard it I was completely baffled because it sounds nothing like anything they'd ever done, as if it had fallen onto the CD by accident from someone else's recording session.