If this movie existed I would watch it 1000 times.

She's wearing that dress where she practically is naked, anyway. Or maybe that's later, when she's on her date with Tony Curtis. The silver one with the open back. That for me is THE Marilyn Monroe costume, not the famous white halter. It seriously looks like something the censors should have thrown a fit over.

See for me it's The Seven Year Itch that I can't stand. I didn't even finish it, there's something so mean-spirited about it to me. And my ability to care about some ass wanting to cheat on his wife is pretty much nonexistent at this point.

I've wondered if his diversity is actual one of the reasons he isn't better remembered today (outside of classic movie fans, anyway). It can be hard to see a through line in his films because they are so different. Who could guess that the same guy made Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard? I wouldn't have. Whereas…

My favorite Tony Curtis story is this - after returning to New York once he got his Hollywood career started, Tony was on his way to a premiere when he drove past his old friend Walter Matthau standing on a streetcorner in the rain. Upon which Curtis stuck his head out the window and yelled the following:

I remember that ensemble vividly.

That's… a very apt comparison. I will say that in Sex and the City's later years some of Miranda's storylines (dealing with her Mom-in-Law's Alzheimer's etc) were still very good. But she was always the most well-rounded character, to me.

That would have been very clever, I think. There were a lot of things Entourage could have done that would have been interesting… they just didn't do any of them because the people behind the show got so caught up in it being a power fantasy for a certain kind of dude.

Ari could be funny, in a terrible sort of way. And Lloyd was the only decent person in this show, at least of what I saw.

I have a theory that once someone gets rich enough money just ceases to have any meaning at all. So they throw it at marble floors or $15K purses (there's a sucker born every minute) because they feel like they HAVE to spend it. And everyone around them does the same thing, so crazy prices for ordinary things start…

Am I totally awful that I sometimes do get comfort from that schadenfreude? I may never see even the smallest corner of the kind of wealth these people have, but at least I'm fairly content with myself and am not waiting for my yearly 'wife bonus'. Ugh.

When I first heard the news about this I wondered why so many cloistered religious communities seem to have this happen - I thought I might be experiencing some confirmation bias or something. But I think you and Ruck C just cleared up why shit like this seems so common to these hyper-religious types.

Matt Weiner can produce plotlines in which a woman gets raped in her office and is later prostituted by that same business, a dude cuts off a nipple (*eye rolling forever*) and gives it to a coworker, and like three women have gotten terminal cancer and then he's 'disturbed' that people are cynical about his work?

I think the Chaplin and Keaton bit was okay, but really it makes me wish that they'd worked together at some point during the height of their powers. That would have been amazing.

I'd say he's both vengeful and hurt, really. He has legitimate pain, but chooses to enact it on other people. He's a great creation, and an illustration that they can make an addict character unsympathetic without the reason for that being his addiction.

Thing about addicts is that they don't actually need strong triggers to relapse. Conventional wisdom tells us that this should be so, yet it's just not true. When my dad relapsed - one that culminated in his addiction getting so bad that he became homeless - I'm not sure he'd even had that bad a day. He just came home…

The latter part of the season did feel kind of inconsequential in comparison to Watson's struggles earlier or Kitty's arc, and I agree we need more Joan next season in general. Using her new business for that would be a good idea, since it also gives the writers an easy way to incorporate more non-murder mysteries.…

I think to a certain extent something being labeled a classic is always a matter of taste. After all, Citizen Kane doesn't have an original plot in any real way. It's got the basic structure of Shakespeare's tragedies/male antihero media - some old guy screws up his life and everyone else's by being an asshole; dies;…

There are a lot of great images in Excalibur - the part where Mordred rides out in that freaky mask, surrounded by bodies hanging from trees? Ugh, so creepy.

I admit I thought the same thing when I read that, but I don't really understand why they'd avoid saying so in this day and age.