“Whatever you think of his comedy, Hollywood at large is clearly drawn to his talent. Either that, or he and Lorne Michaels have some devious blood pact situation going on.”

Exactly. My immediate thought about what the biggest difference would be is that the show had an ending and the books will not.

If the books never come out then they cant end the same way as the show.

Hopefully your tombstone won’t read “he got regularly outraged on behalf of sexual harassers”

If there’s anything I know about Gilbert Gottfried, it’s that he would want nothing more than to have us make tasteless jokes about his death less than a week afterwards. Afraid I can’t think of any right now, but RIP regardless.

Sometimes you eat the bar...

Are you high? Male baldness is not accepted by society. 

Oh neat, someone read the Sparknotes of The Communist Manifesto!

yet a fair number of working class people have a problem with LGBTQ+ people or the amount of melanin in someone’s skin. What’s your class warfare doing to protect the marginalized?

I’m down with that. What’s your timetable on that? Can you get this revolution rolling before my friends in Texas lose more rights to being considered people?

Well, until you have an idea for what that “something is” — and I’m not hearing one — I’ll keep voting.  For all it’s flaws, voting is also at least an attempt at identifying what people collectively want, which is important when you’re . . . you know . . . . using government’s coercive power to force them to do…

I’m asking that the author (and you) take seriously the thinking of people who vote for more moderate liberal candidates, and that he acknowledge that the coalition for those candidates include lots of people who are well aware of how unfair society can be. Black voters tend to care a lot about electability. That’s…

I’m sure black voters, who largely backed Biden, would be interested to learn that they’re “unaware of how actual people are affected by the cruel class striations of society.”

“Memorable film actor?” Seriously? In addition to being a steaming hot physical presence, he showed the kind of commitment and nuance in his work one rarely sees now. Another ‘small’ film - Altered States (folks might have heard of it) was daring for a 1980s film and it has held up over time.

Really? There’s way more blood specifically in Daredevil than Avengers. The first episode of Daredevil has a shot of him leaning up off the ground drooling blood into a puddle.

Yup, that’s pretty much it, I think. Look up causes of narcissistic personality disorder and you will surely come across findings that will confirm your suspicion.

Man, I know French Dispatch is one of Anderson's more divisive movies, but I was hoping it would get at least a screenplay nod or something.

And yet they probably haven’t seen Streets of Fire (1984). I love that movie and it’s a good early performance by Dafoe and probably where his psychotic villain character that has been used over and over (including in the Spiderman movies) first developed.

Where you can also see Christopher Lloyd — which most younger folk only know as Doc Brown from Back to the Future. And of course Andy Kaufman which most younger folk haven’t heard of at all except maybe in the biopic Man on the Moon where he was played by Jim Carrey, but even that was a while ago.

Hell appreciate DeVito for his really weird directing run!