Will his costume have the button-flap jacket? Because if not, we do not have a deal.

I’d give him a break. Chaplin’s such a seminal figure in comedy that it’s hard to approach his stuff with fresh eyes. Much of his stuff looks predictable and unchallenging ... until you recall that he was the trailblazer for so much of that stuff, and that it wasn’t remotely predictable at the time. It only became…

James Remar is a great choice, but part of me wanted John Paragon.

I love Overwatch ... but I’ve never played ranked, and likely never shall. And I’ll certainly never play it with audio chat enabled or a mike. Life’s too short to give yourself an ulcer in game modes that attract the dregs of humanity, achievements & perks be damned.

The problem with Prince of Tides was less that Streisand got ignored, than the unwarranted plaudits it DID get. Saying that movie did not hold up is a massive understatement.

I’ve got fewer quibbles with this episode, merely because (as Shoemaker points out) it would’ve been so predictable to stretch the inescapably bad courtroom stuff out over half a season. This seems like a long-term narrative strategy that the showrunners realized wasn’t working out ... so best to power through the…

I have no idea what that has to do with anything at all, but thanks for sharing.

They’re cultivating mass.

When is it gonna be time to talk about Michael Douglas’s father?

To this day, no one’s ever questioned Daniels about his inside knowledge of the Lucius Clay case.

The essence of manners is to care about such things, total stranger or not.

Uh-oh.

It’s important to recall that we (humans, not just white people) are not so unlike him. We are not a different and better species; we are not composed of finer stuff than he is. We are a handful of seductive errors of thought, imagination, and will away from his condition. To imagine differently is a dangerous moral…

“Omnibuses.” Omnibus is already a (dative) plural.

Stuff like this from Morrissey no longer surprises me ... but in retrospect, it probably should never have surprised anyone. He’s an uncommon but not unknown type—the misanthrope whose misanthropy becomes all-corrosive, and ends up getting trained on the very people on whose behalf one became misanthropic in the first…

That’s like asking if there are people who like Christopher Walken’s weird, insanely mannered speaking voice. The answer is “Yes, quite a few ... even though his style is hard to defend on paper, and more than one of him in the world would certainly be overkill.” Same goes for Morrissey.

I’ll believe it when I see it streaming.

Well, the latter point’s not helping.

If a case as flagrant as Berganza’s can go unaddressed for years, that suggests that he’s the tip of a very large and unpleasant iceberg indeed. Unfortunately, I doubt this’ll lead to any sort of housecleaning. The DC/Marvel honchos who have the power to do such a thing seem to be (at least passively) part of the…

My friend’s a session drummer. He says that of all the humans on Earth, one of them by definition has to be the nicest, most generous, and gentle-natured ... and that that human might just be Morris Day (of the Time fame). A true shirt-off-one’s-back gentleman.