Thanks Gwen, for all the articles over the years and particularly this one. Columbo is the all-time greatest in comfort food TV. It’s filling and reassuring, and even those rare times when it’s not all that great, it’s still good.

That’s why I said “somewhat.” But compared to where we were earlier with the armorer, when she was the focus of public ire and it looked like legal the hammer would fall hardest on her, the OSHA findings are a pretty significant turn. But yeah, as I mention elsewhere, even this could be extremely short-lived if the…

His regular body dies. IIRC, the pod was damaged by Colonel Freddie Lounds and his human body got lethally exposed to Pandora’s toxic atmosphere, so the only option for him to survive was for the Magic Tree to transfer his consciousness into his awesome blue avatar body.

Well, there is still the matter of how those live rounds got on set and made their way into the gun, which remains unexplained. NM OSHA focused, appropriately, on the various industry safety guidelines the production didn’t follow. However, someone had the bright idea of loading a prop weapon with real bullets, and…

I’m not sure on legal merits that Baldwin should take the brunt of it. The NM OSHA report, for example, doesn’t contradict the limitations on his role as producer, and seems to place most of the blame on the armorer’s superiors: the Line Producer, the Unit Production Manager, and, most of all, on the AD who actually…

Imagine your life being so empty that your hobby is producing unpaid pro-Johnny Depp propaganda. 

Exactly! He’ll do just as good a job of looking stern while his face is photoshopped onto a poster where he’s standing with a bunch of people who’ve done guest appearances on Criminal Minds.

Is “Mormon” an offensive term now, or is this just a soft change of emphasis?

an armorer who took on too much responsibility by also being a prop director

So very much this. In many actions you can waive personal service, agree to service through your attorney, and then you never need to meet a process server.

It’s neither lazy nor dumb. If you think so, pick a celebrity and try handing them a piece of paper—say, a birthday card. But you have to hand it to them, personally. You can’t give it to a secretary, or a bodyguard, or the concierge at their hotel, if you can find it (celebrities often check in under false names).…

Doubtful. They can blame the process server, as they have, and there are legitimate reasons why the server would opt for this method of service (movie stars are often much more difficult to locate or approach than the average person). Also, if it’s the scenario I mentioned, the comeback is: “We offered you the chance…

Not necessarily. Family courts are weird. If you want to establish a custody arrangement, and successfully reach an agreement, some courts consider that action closed, and then if you want to change that arrangement, or enforce it, it’s often considered a new action you have to start separately. You then have to serve…

People avoid process servers, often just for the heck of it—to annoy the other side and make them spend money trying to serve papers. In this case, it’s more likely that it was simply a matter that Wilde was staying in Vegas incognito, and/or she has security to keep fans/press/people obsessed with her boyfriend away…

You could even say the best two Terminator movies.

Eh, I’d say it was also Gravity. I was the one person who didn’t catch Avatar in the theaters, so Gravity is my high-water 3D experience. Aside from that, most of the time, 3D didn’t add anything, to the point where I wondered if they’d made a mistake when they gave us the glasses. Some of the time, it made me…

It was a big movie, but I think the stuff that made it a cultural thing were the special effects and 3D that, for once, looked like more than just a gimmick. I don’t remember people referencing the story or any of the dialogue all that much when it was out—even to make fun of it. It didn’t have an “Hasta la vista,…

He’s Zuck’s friend who gets screwed over when the Napster guy shows up. He’s really very good in the role, particularly in the scene where his girlfriend goes ballistic on him for his Facebook relationship status being set to “single”:

Or, “No, I do not want to star in a movie where Spider-Man fights a luchador...”

I thought “HBO’s not wrong in the slightest” referred to the fact that you typically don’t get to demand a retraction of fiction—not to the idea that the portrayal was accurate. It wouldn’t be unheard of, but it would be extraordinarily hard for West to sue for defamation based on Clarke’s portrayal in Winning Time.…