Call me a crazy outlier, but I would really rather read this as an article.

As I recall the whole setup was sort of a fantasy about men living the ideal emotionally-arrested boy-man lifestyle, complete with plenty of toys and always-accessible buddies for games and palling around. Joey and Chandler’s apartment, writ large.

I recently rewatched the beginning of the first Police Academy movie and ... yep. ‘80s Steve Guttenberg handsomeness checks out. Or we could call it “appeal”—it’s as much as about charm as looks.

Alright listen Tom, some of us like babies, OK? This was a whole lot of cute little baby, front and center. Plus three extremely handsome men. In other words, this is a movie for women. (Not all women, I know, I know. But I sure enjoyed it as an ‘80s kid, and if had to be banished to a desert island with nothing but a…

And she names a whole bunch of comedians just to tear them all down and say they’re all terrible. She fails to name one single comedian she actually likes, which makes her criticism of any comedy suspect, imho, especially in a piece of writing of such insane length.

I laughed quite a bit during Nanette. It’s not categorically unfunny, it’s just not for everyone.

Good advice, thanks!!

Say you really like many of Stephen King’s other books but you’re not otherwise into fantasy as an adult.  Yea or nay to trying the Dark Tower books?

This was a little snarkier than it needed to be.

Rob Morrow was the Edward Norton of his day.

Yup. Her speech about how nothing was about her anymore once she had a husband and kids failed to win my sympathy either. If they had gone more Arrested Development and had her be absolutely awful it might have been more fun, but they walked an unsuccessful line with her character.

My husband had a subscription to Mojo Magazine for a while, which is basically all about disputes between current and former band members, any/all bands, major to vanishingly minor, between the ‘70s and the ‘90s (it also has lots and lots of obits). If you read this post and were like, “where can I read more stuff…

Steppenwolf survey: are you Malkovich or Sinise?  

Exactly. They got the audience *invested* in him moving on.  

Maybe you’re right, there’s an awful lot of book there to work from.

The original miniseries did a lovely thing replacing that whole TV show thing with Kathy Baker as a lone DJ.  One of those moments where the adaptation does it better than the original.  

He’s more than halfway there just being himself.

I thought Sheridan did ok, and he looked right. It wasn’t his fault the special effects were so weak. But Molly Ringwald was so, so bad, she took me out of the story in every scene where she appeared. Plus she and Gary Sinise had all the chemistry of a used Kleenex left out in the rain.

The chapter(s) with The Kid stuck out for me as eminently cuttable, too. But worse than that was the scene where the TV station got taken over by rogue soldiers (which may well have been in the first version, I’ve only read the uncut one). It reads like the worst of a white author’s 1970s racist fantasies. Half-hearted…

That’s why the ending is so frustrating, because it seems to endorse his problematic Robin fixation, instead of having him evolve and move on like people do in real life, mostly.