People like Alan Flusser always held up Fred Astaire as the style icon but I always thought Kelly won that battle hands down. Astaire's style was a bit too foppish and dandified while Kelly always looked ready to throw down! And as mentioned above (and by others before) Astaire's clothes always looked too tight and…

Yeah, despite any preconceptions anyone might hold about musical being a bit 'fey' , Singing in the Rain is as athletic and robust an endeavor as what I saw on the Super Bowl. And goofy, comic-relief Donald O'Connor's "Make 'em Laugh" sequence is insane and almost exhausting to watch. They did a take-off on "Glee" a…

Also in 1966:
Adam West's TV Batman (and the theatrical release)
Fantastic Voyage
Star Trek
Mission Impossible
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

I think some of the episodes tank, but they do so spectacularly - while singing and dancing. Takes some of the edge off.

Zooey DeSchanel is the new Parker Posey. Not a great development for the old Parker Posey.

I somehow made it through "Some Kind of Monster" but it was tough. In some ways, it's a really good film. It's disturbingly honest and no one comes across as much of a worthy human being. I give everyone involved credit for that. But it's not pretty.

Ha!
OK I was hatin' on these guys at first but they won me over with the goofy Siskel and Ebert bit at the end. That and their appearance in the "Winnebago Man" doc has made me a fan.

Yeah, if I remember correctly in the early days the Conan show had Richman on a whole bunch of times. At least more often than would seem warranted by his obscurity.

Senor Bagofcrap really piqued my interest with "toad in the hole." So I did the wikipedia thing, so anyone interested in sausage/pudding combinations can check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Watch that "Hollywood.TV" clip
Sweet mother of Jesus what a brazen spectacle of Hollywood freaks and losers. Where do these awful, terrible people come from?

OK Modell, so you say Mr. Brain Wash is fictional but you really have to draw the line of demarcation a bit clearer. Was Thierry Guetta an actor? Or are you saying that Banksy just set him up to be famous and sorta Punk'd him? So, would that make it fiction? Geez, this can get real meta, real quick.

Well, that's kind of a relevant point —Borat being (or not being) a documentary. Sam Donaldson wasn't faking his reaction to Borat and he wasn't performing. So doesn't that mean it's at least partly a documentary?

Do it English dude!
Sir Rick of Gervais's Joan Rivers shtick made me watch at least 3/4 of the usually dreary Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Club should be blowing him.

Also: Man-Hands.

TV Critics know how to party
This series about the T.C.A. soiree has been great. That said, I can't think of anything that sounds more tedious than 10 days of TV hype and blather from executives. Ten days? God, that sounds like 8 days too much. But it's been a good read.

At first I was all, But then I was like…
Sean O'Neal is pretty damn funny but sometimes I find it difficult to separate the jokes from the actual things-that-actually-happened.

The not-profitable news gathering entity is the wave of the future to some degree. The aging tradition of using a vehicle designed to sell snake oil while simultaneously pretending traditional journalism is some higher calling is fading away thankfully.

Oh oh oh Oh…

It's plan logic. The outcome of "unknown con" and a "known con" are both surprises to the audience.

that should say:"…when you re trying to decipher and read subtitles and absorb visuals simultaneously."