You are correct. Realtors would now prefer for you to call it "Clinton".

I was thinking the same thing, that's what I meant by saying it must have been a memorable encounter. I can easily believe that he thought or said something like that to his agent back in the day, though; it makes sense given how RB and HB were seen at the time (and Beagle didn't like how the RB Lord of the Rings…

I don't think it was specific to kids' media; I think it was more that there was a lot of new crazy stuff going on in fantasy and science fiction from the late '60s onward— the "New Wave" writers, who had grown up on Disney and Tolkien and early Heinlein, started throwing those familiar elements into a blender with…

I'm not really sure. This article makes it sound like the 2007 (25th anniversary) release is at least better than the 2004 one, but also fucked up in some ways, and that that's the version that Beagle's publisher (after settling the rights issue) is now selling, but that there's also another version from Lionsgate…

I can't back this up in any way, but I kind of feel like "letting their song be used in a commercial" is generally thought of a little differently than "author selling movie rights". Commercials are selling something unrelated to the song; they're hoping to partake of its popularity, but they're not about it. And…

I'm guessing that that encounter was a memorable one, because in interviews since then, Beagle has used that exact same wording (including the rhetorical question about H-B) to describe his own initial reaction to the studio deal. He didn't know anything about Topcraft at that point, and had no expectation that…

Side note: When the Wind Blows wasn't exactly meant to be for kids; it just inevitably got treated that way, at least in the US, since the author Raymond Briggs was mostly known for his earlier children's books. Wind was sort of a sequel to his non-children's book Gentleman Jim, which was a satire of working-class…

Heh… you probably wouldn't have been surprised by the length of the Q&A if you knew what a massive cult following Beagle has, especially around this book and movie. I wasn't aware of TLU at all until I married a fan, but based on the various e-mail news updates she passed on to me, lots and lots of people were…

He really is incredibly well cast. The Richie in the comic was one of Delano's attempts to bring lots of different kinds of fringe counterculture characters into Constantine's world, and an interesting one because he was the opposite of John in terms of all-around competence and coolness, while still being good at…

I've been lucky enough to see P-cide a half-dozen times (once on a double bill with Brave Combo). They're still around, but playing very little and only in the SF Bay/North Bay area. I wish they'd put out more than one record!

Obligatory surreal and obscene BIEBERCOMIC.

For non-purists, Brave Combo is a very long-lived, very fun band that plays basically any kind of music that can be played fast with horns and guitars and accordion— mostly polka, but also plenty of other Eastern European and Latin American music styles. Their 1999 album Polkasonic (which won the Grammy polka category…

I imagine that the press release was written while making the Dreamworks Face, so as to make it impossible to distinguish between "this is a bold adventurous action" and "we are confused and suffering."

The movie of The Andromeda Strain also did a good job of removing most of Crichton's constant infodumps and technical digressions, and pushing the remaining ones into the background where they just help to provide atmosphere, rather than asking you to join in a 5-minute geek-out over how cool their computer voice…

Chris Carter explains (spoilers for X-Files seasons 3 and 6). Of course he talks as if Scully is a fictional character on a made-up show, but that's just what they want you to think.

Hobbs did say "Do you see?", but we don't get to see his POV, so it's unclear what he meant. He was looking straight at Will though, not at Lecter. I kind of suspected he meant something like "Hey, guy who just shot me a dozen times, you have kind of a crazy desperate look in your eye; maybe you too understand what…

Nothing happens to her in the books, although when Will is mentioned later on, after he's retired, it's unclear whether he and she are still together. Book-Will ended up in a somewhat more fucked-up condition than movie-Will.

Nah, she just accidentally skips a step in between figuring out how to identify the killer and actually finding the guy. She's the one who realizes he's making a garment, and that he knew his first victim and shared her interest in sewing, which would've quickly led to Gumb through his mutual acquaintances with…

I get excessive kicks out of gratuitous internal rhymes and slant-rhymes, so "In the hole of the soul of Count Olaf there's no love" cracks me up every time. Ditto, "The goal of Count Olaf is getting control of the fortunes of urchins and orphans." I was pretty word-nerdy as a kid too, so this probably would've been…

No idea, but it has an IMDb page and everything: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…