Pretty much agree. Albert Brooks would have been an inspired choice, though.

Huh, I have a hard time imagining Hanks in the role, as Harry is so neurotic and prickly and quippy and [additional qualifier dancing around just describing the character as “Jewish New Yorker”]. Per wikipedia, it looks like Crystal had a lot of influence over the character in the final script though. To be honest, I…

It may be a generational thing, but I’d venture Treat Williams was best known for Hair and not a teen show that aired on the WB, fifteen to twenty years ago.

RIP

He isn’t smart

“I feel like I was very quick to distance myself from him when I started making more serious films. But the reality is that, like, he’s the reason I have everything I have.”

Tom was just fucking with him.  Greg is going to get a huge raise as Tom’s assistant.  He’ll still do 100% shit work and coffee fetching, but he’s not really going to have his pay cut.

Yeah, I seem to recall Trump making a victory speech on the eve of the most recent election.

Plus that haircut is definitely Fuhrer-curious. 

John Cameron Mitchell playing a parrot named after a Roman emperor is an all-time great left-field cameo.

I mean, 2 things are true here:

They’ve done some excellent character work with Connor this season. I would probably punch my brother in the face if he ever spoke like that about my wife (though he never would), but Connor stayed level headed even as he told Roman to fuck off. Connor actually looked — dare I say? — presidential in that moment. And…

I can’t believe this week’s episode had me cheering Conor forking Roy. first for telling the GOP candidate to take a hike and second for taking Willa’s feelings about Oman seriously. Is their relationship the healthiest on the whole show?

Also, the best line: “A bit car-bomby.”

She had me until approval on costumes? The fuck?

Billy Bob Thornton directed an adaptation of 'All the Pretty Horses' in 2000. The Coens were the first to do it right, but they weren't the first to do it.

How can the article confidently open with the assertion that only 3 novels of his have been adapted when there’s that Matt Damon film “All the Pretty Horses”? I didn’t even have to look that up and I barely follow this stuff. 

I thought he was one of the lesser known Dr. Who’s.

Hmm, looks more like Richard E. Grant, to me.

Well, the male lead appears to be played by Bob Geldof, who was a figurehead for starvation in the 80s. May as well make use of  his field of expertise if it’s there.

Every time I think about Connor I crack up because of his eulogy for (Mo)Lester where he refuses to commit to anything beyond “Lester was a man, and now he has died.”