If anything, Bob Ross’s reputation has grown since his death. He was kind of a joke during his PBS run, but there seems to be a growing appreciation of how he changed himself from a hard-nose air force NCO to basically a Mr. Rogers for adults. And, he seems to have genuinely inspired many people to take up painting as…

And Garrison Keillor is very much still alive.

Judging by the track record of most of the Disney live action remakes, any and all controversies will soon be forgotten, because the movie will suck and it will quickly fade into the bottom of the Disney+ algorithm.

I still want to know, though, where the remark about Pennsylvania came from. Is this show actually set in Pennsylvania, and if it supposedly has continuity to the films (a Grease Cinematic Universe, or GCU?), what is the connection to PA?

Yeah, did I miss something? The review casually mentions “If you want to get historically accurate about it, does it stretch credulity that a 1950s Pennsylvania suburb would be this diverse?” No explanation of why this is set in Pennsylvania?  Were the Pink Ladies a girl gang with regional chapters?

Kid of the 80s here. I had to turn to the library to find out why my voice was cracking, why I was growing more hair, why my skin became greasy, why my crotch now had a weird smell, why I would get random erections, etc. because my parents were terrified of any discussions that involved even the lightest hint of…

Geography aside, culturally, Ohio is definitely Midwest.

To this day, I still find myself sometimes yelling in a Spanish voice ‘Who, does not want to wear thee ribbon!”

I was about to say, “Wait, that’s not a Hitchcock film!”...

Vitamin C’s proven role is as a cofactor in collagen synthesis, and a lack of it causes scurvy because the skin and mucosa can’t repair their basal membranes.  So, in the sense that vitamin C prevents scurvy, it does help prevent infections, just not in the way most people seem to think.

“Traditional Chinese Medicine” is only a thing because Mao promised everyone health care but his purges and the Cultural Revolution decimated China’s medical community at the time.

Funny story, I knew nothing about this film when I first saw it on an army deployment to Kosovo, but one of my roommates was absolutely thrilled to have snagged a DVD copy (I think it had just come out on DVD at the time). So, I watched, and lo, it was a pretty compelling movie, but it didn’t seem like the type of…

Or at least the American bastardization of that celebration.

One out of three for the Barrytown Trilogy isn’t bad.

I’m a non-Irish descended American who went to a very heavily Irish-descended university (Notre Dame), and I was always shocked that as little as I knew about Ireland, I often knew far more than people who proudly proclaimed themselves as “Irish”.

OK, we’re missing one here. The Snapper!

I learned the hard way that a mandolin has reached the end of its useful life when the vegetables start catching on the blade.

Thanks, I forgot how unintentionally funny that drunk scene with him was.

“Then, in Giant, he was the central presence in this sweeping epic—no mean feat, considering his co-stars were big-screen heavyweights Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.”

One omission I can think of... Massimo Troisi for Il Postino. It might have been his international break-through, but he died just after shooting finished.