Probably because John Gielgud came up with it first.

Actually Cumberbatch is quite wrong, the English actor whose name sounds like a fart in the bath is Edward Woodward.

Maybe his good idea should be to recommend someone who is actually a good composer, instead of a manager.

I don't think Bob Orci's temperament would be suited to having to deal with weekly reactions from fans. How about CBS commissions a new Star Trek show, once Bryan Fuller is done with Hannibal.

You mean Jerry as Superman, Jason Alexander as Lex Luthor and Wayne Knight as Brainiac.

Yep, I can only imagine Jackson didn't cast him was because at his advanced age the insurance might have been too much. I mean, between Ian McKellen's insurance and the greenscreen budget there can't have been that much money left over for casting interesting actors (Brian Cox as Thorin for example, Nick Offerman as…

Absolutely, it's also a big departure from the generally more realistic-seeming design of the Lord of the rings-films.
Mostly, I think the design of the Hobbit suffers from too much of a muchness. I understand that with a cast of characters mostly consisting of stocky men with beards there is a necessity to have them…

I always pictured Brian Blessed as one of the dwarves. I mean he's the oldest person to have attempted to climb mt. Everest without oxygen. With him as one of the dwarves they would have traversed the Misty Mountains without so much as a peep from an orc.

I'll wait and see how it looks onscreen, as the dwarves (mostly) turned out alright, despite the crummy promotional images. But this really doesn't look much like the Beorn from the book. It seems to me that Peter Jackson is far too concerned with making every character look unique, resulting in a rather overdesigned…

Well, what does Miley have to rebel against? She's a brat with a silver spoon, the only thing she has to rebel against is the general public's sense of good taste. It's all rather pubescent, this whole quest to see how vulgar she can be, possibly with a vague intent of trying to be authentic.

Oh good, I always turn to ambassadors to the U.N. when I need to know something about diapers. And when it comes to Samantha Power, that's all I really want to know. I mean why ask her about her experiences as a journalist in Bosnia during the civil war there and how that shaped her opinion on humanitarian…

I can get behind that idea. Let's just hope that at one point while you're frozen they don't decide to do some research on your brain.

On the contrary, if that were so I'd have to be in favour of a doing away with of essentially all of civilisation. The artificial and manufactured is fine by me. My question is simply what the reason would be for this near immortality and eternal youthfulness, once you remove such trivial answers as vanity and a fear…

Doesn't answer the question of why you'd want to stay young forever. Immortality just seems like a bore. Plus there's just something rather undignified about people who can't accept their sagging skin.

Before I read the rest of the article, can I just ask why aging is such a problem?
Quite frankly, I can't think of any reason why we need anyone to stick around longer than roughly a century. Just get over your fear of death and accept your imminent decrepitude with a little grace.
I'd rather be an old coot enjoying a…

Bloody kids, what's wrong with getting another completely unsuitable, but equally cute, wild animal as pet that isn't an invasive species; Japan's very own Raccoon dog?

It's because we can't tackle the big problems collectively that we feel this need to become so fastidious with what we eat and how we live. It's not entirely dissimilar from the situation in the seventies. Hippies tried to change the world, but when the world proved to be too big and angry to change, they turned…

I was thinking about lighting and heating mainly, but it would probably only be a little more expensive than regular greenhouse farming. The fact that you could do it in the city ( America has plenty of empty and abandoned warehouses that could be converted) would definitely defray costs though.
And it would be nice to…

No, the point of this article is to get you to think about how your eating habits impact the rest of the world.

Oh, I know that people in the countryside often have far less squeemish attitudes towards the less anonymous bits of the animal. Unfortunately the majority of the population lives in the cities and their appetites generally dictate the market.