I just went back and listened to this episode yesterday, and it's amazing. She just seems like an insanely cool woman, one of those people you could listen to for hours. I can't find anything about her podcast with Moon Zappa, though - I hope it's still happening!

I re-watched the original trilogy recently, and I know there are fans who like to dump on Hamill, but I think he plays the arc of the character really well. Especially in Empire - he's basically alone for most of the movie, acting with a puppet. Not to discount the great puppeteering (sorry, Muppeteering?) behind…

Agreed - I saw her the night the Cubs won the World Series. She was amazing - encored with Amelia by Joni Mitchell.

Indeed - it took me a little while to get into Shriek, but when I got it, I got it big time. I've kind of been digging this Flock of Dimes album more than Tween, though.

If memory serves, he does actually want the pool for the family, but when his fantasy of the family is marred by Cousin Eddie, he briefly replaces him in the fantasy with the woman from the earlier scene in the department store. The neighbors in this one were the yuppie couple that he hated, one of whom was Julia…

Or maybe a smaller, more manageable group? I thought Kimmel might pull it off - it was a decent enough, Lettermanesque idea - but it was too much going on at once. He was trying to engage with the first couple, who were just into their phones, while it looked like there might have been some fun business happening…

That was my thought - when he was like "everybody say 'Mahershala!'" - is he trying to do an "Oprah, Uma!" thing? Because that didn't work….

The roughest part was that half the tourists barely looked up from their phones.

I remember hearing that joke back in the late 80s about a girl with unshaven armpits, but back then it was Tina Turner in a headlock.

Oh, I look like a human Muppet, but I make up for it by not liking Def Leppard or Journey. I'm still playing vinyl, though I've slowed way down with buying so much of it, mainly due to lack of space. (I live with my boyfriend in a tiny apartment in New York, and at this point, I can't even find room for another set…

Agreed - my evangelical Christian family looooooves this movie, and I've always thought it's a little odd that they quote it endlessly around the holidays. This year, though, my mom said something that enlightened me - her take was, "yeah, this movie's kind of raunchy, but the thing is, at the heart of it all, Clark…

This is cool timing - I was watching the Kennedy Center Honors with my mom, and she wondered aloud if Al Pacino and Beverly D'Angelo were still together, which led to us looking her up on Wikipedia - what an interesting life! I sincerely hope that her life gets really boring soon so that she finally writes that…

Good Lord, slow dancing with HDS at the Viper Room, what an image. Please, please, Beverly D'Angelo, write your memoirs!

*in Hans Moleman voice* I would watch that!!

You know what I love about this scene? As a female record geek who has worked in record stores, and been talked down to/ignored by men in record stores, Rob doesn't just immediately assume that it's her husband's collection. His default assumption is that it's hers.

Mr. El Barko and I saw Lovitz last year…we were in the mood for some stand up, price was right, and we loved his work on SNL back in the day, so we didn't bother to read any recent reviews before we went. His "act" was basically just a two-hour-long, cranky-old-guy rant…comedy-wise, it was extremely unpolished,…

Second that - every time I go to CA I end up eating pho basically every other day, and there are multiple great restaurants to choose from. Then I come back to NYC and there's, like, three places in the entire city and none of them are anywhere close to me and I go into pho withdrawal. (Seriously, if any of you have…

They just need a better makeup job. Kate's face doesn't look like it's melting enough.

Agreed - I walked out of 20th Century Women thinking, "finally, Annette Bening will win her Oscar." Not that Meryl isn't one of Earth's Finest Humans, but I think at this point even she's thinking, "jfc, you guys, enough already."

I read Princess Diarist back in December and, while not her best work, I found myself dog-earing pages and thinking "YES, THIS" numerous times throughout. There's not a lot of new making-of-Star-Wars intel, but I was in a similar relationship with an aloof older guy when I was in my early 20s, and it all just rang so…