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And canonically, Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) is his grandson, I think, which is pretty swell.

My parents went to law school with Kasowitz and have said he was a schmuck then, too.

can't they just leave a good thing alone?

Gordon could've at least had the class to name the team creating the musical—composer/lyricist Michael Friedman, bookwriter Robert Askins, and director Alex Timbers.

Spawn's always been canonically black.

Spencer is pulling double-duty, with both his Marvel work and his terrific crime caper The Fix at Image.

There is something moderately satisfying about a vocal ex-Scientologist playing a psychiatrist.

Dan Gregor doesn't just work on CXG—he's also Mr. Rachel Bloom.

[citation needed]

Biggie and Tupac, obviously. Unite the East and West Coasts in peace and harmony at long last.

I was going to bring up Patrick Stewart as a counterpoint, but I looked up some pictures of him with hair and he's just as handsome with it.

So this is the version from the Swedish part of Ghana, right?

I presume nobody is speaking up for "Melanie" on account of it could easily pass for a non-Weird Al song. Because that's the only excuse.

Can it truly be said not to hold up well when it was no good in the first place?

I guess I'm the only one digging Scooby Apocalypse, then?

Yeah, Swiss Army Man was batshit, but it was also gorgeous and at times almost unbearably moving (to me, at least).

If that isn't one of the fake TV shows in Stay Tuned, it should be.

You're not supposed to talk about that.

"Unnecessary" is a kind word for From Time to Time, which is, charitably, terrible. 250 pages of atmosphere, followed by a sudden realization that the book needs a plot, so it's all crammed into the last chunk of the book.

For whatever it's worth, she was tremendously good in the play, which itself is fascinating. It's a monologue, but the production involved extensive staging, and I could easily see it being expanded to include additional characters—the pilot's family and coworkers are all discussed in the play.