I don’t know what my question is.

It’s Judi Dench.

College friend’s sister was Slash’s Chicago girlfriend during the heyday. Per her, a superb human being even without the stardom.

Closer to home, have a David Byrne story too depressing to relate.

Actually muscle (meat) is naturally gray/deep purple. The purple color is an iron-binding protein called myoglobin, especially visible in freshly cut flesh. Myoglobin mutates into two subsidiary hemes, oxymyoglobin and metmyoglobin, when it's exposed to oxygen; this is why the hue can change. When myoglobin hits…

Just introduce yourself. Nobody knows how you feel. Believe me, after you do this four times, you’re ready for the Golden Globes. (Anyone will assume that anyone who is confident enough to do this must be someone worth talking to.)

"You people don't even seem to understand..." [King Jelly Bean]
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form..." [authors of the Preamble]

So the framing of people is a fun difference.

Another is our main characters' very names. The passionate defender of the "divine right" shared by all takes a stand against…

Looks like she wrote her own bio: the r is missing on reats.

"PLEASE COME HERE."

Talk about greedy.

Precisely. And that's how strong the system is. I've got a college buddy who's as bright as anybody, studied film, is as talented as anybody, moved to the big city. (Not a New Yorker, this one.) A quicker loss of innocence has never been recorded in all of literature: when he figured out what the value system is here…

Don't worry; they won't.

I agree, honestly. But I've split time between the US and Europe (France), and I know it sounds like a cliche, but it's different over there - gradations, context, psychology. After all, it's been keeping the French film industry alive since Jules et Jim.

The ex-roommate in question is very American; the sardonic…

I was in a similar situation with my ex (he was a pro tennis player, but you'd only know his name if you're really into tennis). It was worse for me, though, because his big thing was always saying that he never expected me to have to say that every time we met wasn't a date - even if it was a date; and usually it…

How much worse, though? Totally true that espionage should get the death penalty - but what if it's a guy cheating on his wife's daughter? That happened to my ex-roommate - but it's complex, because he was actually getting back at her for having cheated on him; but to be fair, she'd told him that if he wasn't making a…

What about the Tarkovsky references?

It's a great movie. And Tarantino's a postmodernist, he's not even working in the same medium as these folks. Even if he were, he wouldn't qualify in terms of directing a shoot-out scene. *

If anything, Sydney Pollack's attempt at handling Schrader's Yakuza script would be another nomination, along with Melville. Nikit…

Whoa, somebody's on the Wickster, too. Cool!

I think this list is confusing great scenes with great movies. If it's shoot-outs we want, then we should go to the experts - Wick, Bay, Spielberg, Woo, McQuarrie. They're incapable of making great films, but we don't exactly listen to the Beatles for the drum solos, either.

H…

Oh - great, somebody's seen The Way of the Gun! Cool.

I know we wouldn't want to admit it, Spielberg's Raiders scene in Nepal is the best of all in terms of choreography and spatial clarity - too dorky for this list? And it's funny how Taxi Driver stands out. It's the only real film on here. Nikita is depressingly good, considering nobody will ever remember it. De Palma…

BUT WHADDABOUT DA PEOPAL WHO ARE MENZ

- particularly those in fraternities? They're the real victims here.

I do believe in the Pandora's Box theory: Al Gore forgot, when he turned on the interwebs, just how efficient an intelligence filter the institution called media in fact was.

(Jezebel doesn't know how to handle it,…

I'm sure this will never be posted, but not all the clutter in the universe vexes me as much as this article. It's called minimalism. It's a fad, and in a few years it's going to look as obnoxious as bell bottoms. We're going to look back on the fact that we willingly gave $231.839 billion to Apple in utter disbelief.…

I work for one of Google's major third party agencies, so I understand how Google knows how big your penis is. In fact, I just ran the app - now I know how big your penis is.

What I don't understand is how it knows what your penis smells like.