“No one at Pabst had ever screamed obscenities into the phone before
(Daren and Evan). . . . They were trying to manage through fear and
aggression,” said Bryan Cook, 36, a Pabst field marketing representative
who worked there six years before quitting in 2012. “They were 20-something billionaires whose dad had bought…

Pinker in Better Angels cites the rise of popular literature and the novel as one of the ways humanity grew less violent by learning to empathize with characters and viewpoints different from their own.

This review nails all the problems with the show, including one I didn't realize I had seen: Dion's lawyer's dad is Det. Giordano.

I hope she does read it to realize just how much of a sanctimonious POS she sounds like.

I think he was in the joint about a year, based on references to Schwimmer's character's dead wife having been gone that long and the burning down of the restaurant happening right after the accident that killed her.

To billion-year-old white Canadian Trebek, anything stronger than cream of wheat is "exotic".

Never saw Emergency! but looked up the intro to see if any choppers appear and none do, though was impressed, as @avclub-ffffda8ada4827900cbf65fd20281080:disqus notes, at the nod to authenticity by listing not just the character names but their accreditation in their appropriate medical specialty.

The Airwolf copter was a modified Bell 222, so same manufacturer, at least.

Knew about the Pushkin and meant "original" in the sense of the play that the movie was based on.

Their depiction of the near future felt very lived in and possible, something that Continuum never managed to quite do.

His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night… back when romantic comedies were actually both.

Didn't they bring a player back this season so that they had an episode with two returning contestants?

If she had wagered everything instead of holding back $600 that could not have helped her if she had missed, Stew would not have had a runaway and Kelly would have won.

That Prince of Denmark was no Hamlet.

That was all Shaffer and from his original play:

I've been shopping around my JS Bach screenplay Sebastian for years but everyone just assumes it's about a singing crab.

Saw it live without having seen the movie first or knowing much about it and it was far more psychosexual than I would have expected a play about a horse-eye-stabbing boy to be.

At least they got the halberds right.

The thing that drives me nuts is Constanze's accent. WTF is that supposed to be.

It may not be good music history, but it nailed the Baron van Swieten.