I love those Aladdin songs. The three Ashman/Menken movies (Mermaid, Beast and the songs Ashman wrote for Aladdin) are the high-water mark for animated musicals— brilliant, brilliant lyrics. As soon as Tim Rice takes over, the lyrics become arch and generic. With Howard Ashman's death, we lost a truly first-rate…

O I am all sadded now. deadwood.

Zach Snyder is our own Leni Riefenstahl: a brilliant formalist who fetishizes human beauty and worships force; his films are beautiful on the outside and rotten underneath.

I am humbled!

Needless to say, we still celebrate Bentham's inventions in a circular PanoptiComicCon.

"Mmmm" cried Ferrophage Zeta-Re2343x, "someone buried tapas!"

Batman...

Do we know for sure that this Mandarin's backstory hasn't been retconned? Maybe Sir K.'s version is some kind of Anglo dude who's taken on the identity of an Oriental Potentate.

The one that always gets me is "Every Day a Little Undeath."

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Maybe I'm missing something— but it sure seems to me like the creator of Larry Potter (& Lily) and the Muggles got mightily screwed by Rowling and Scholastic.

brings to mind the weirdly literal-minded approach of Robert Altman's Popeye.

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