I'm actually weirdly grateful for Katherine Harris because she made possible Laura Dern's performance as Katherine Harris.

I got the sense that Blacksmith's crime was not showing up, which resulted in the gun fight.

Actually… he did quite a good Henry Higgins to Kiri Te Kanawa's Eliza Doolittle. :-)

So why has Johnny Depp been allowed to age and take on a variety of
offbeat roles, while Ryder has been relegated to secondary parts as
wives, mothers and girlfriends?

Gotta say, completely disagree. KoH was the movie that convinced me that Orlando Bloom was legit, and made me a fan. The criticism I keep hearing is that they should have cast older for Balian — but if they'd cast older, they would have had to lose Liam Neeson, and he was perfect in this film.

Me neither! I love that movie (the Director's Cut, that is) — it's easily in my top 5 of all time. And I seriously think that it works as a counterpoint to Gladiator — in which a lot of the story beats are exactly the same, but the heroes are 180 degrees opposed… one whose grief is (mercifully?) overshadowed by rage…

There are so many good anecdotes, it's hard to keep track!

I love that album, too. If I think about it too deeply, though, it can be hard to listen to — considering it was what he did as therapy right after Linda died, No Other Baby and Lonesome Town are pretty heartbreaking.

Nah, that was The Long and Winding Road, and the goopy-string-adding culprit was Phil Spector. Paul hasn't forgiven him to this day — apparently walked out of an awards ceremony a few years back when Spector was being honored.

Not to mention title-checking it in "How Do You Sleep?"

Oh, man, one of the sweetest interview moments I ever saw was with George Martin and Paul McCartney, and George Martin was earnestly explaining to the interviewer that the Beatles' drug use during Pepper had been greatly exaggerated, and it wasn't like they were high the whole time… and Paul so kindly and gently said…

God, I love that song.

As far as Old-school Paul goes, I have a weakness for "Baby's Request," from the Wings era.

That was my take — her revelation that her motivation was Mischa, not Hannibal, was pretty satisfactory for me, in terms of explaining her. And her line about some beasts not being caged, I took to be about her, not Hannibal, as well. She started off as being imprisoned by virtue of being a jailor; so she basically…

I know! It was kind of appropriately sadistically funny, though, given that it's Favre, and he just. won't. go. away.

So Hazzard County was one big Sundown Town, apparently.

For all of Paul's complaints about Long and Winding Road, he still adopted most of it on his tours.

I do! My reaction to the list was… "How dare they not pick Day Tripper for D! What did they pick inst… oh. Well. Okay. I guess that's all right."

This is my story, except swap out "Hey Bulldog" for "It's All Too Much." So I'm completely unable to be objective about HB, because its discovery brought me so much joy.

(claiming long after the fact that it was about the US Civil Rights Movement)