Agreed - the most romantic thing about Manhattan is the way it's shot. In terms of being a cinematic love letter to New York, sure, it's a romantic movie, but Woody's character ending up (more or less) with Tracy is a terrible ending, whether or not you know Woody's real life travails. And everyone else behaves…

This so looks like something my friends and I would've gone to see after school on a Friday in 1995. Probably would've been better than Con Air!

Maybe you had to be a preteen girl to really appreciate it, but Natty Gann getting into fistfights and hopping cross-country trains to find her dad put her at Leia levels of awesome for me as a youngster. Also, she tames a wolf. It's pretty badass.

This comment deserves its own "Good Job, Internet!"

Good point about the marriage being well into the future. Maybe the engagement is for his daughter as much as for him, to give her a sense of stability in the meantime. At any rate, I hope it works out. Patton seems like a good guy who went through a terrible thing, and Meredith Salenger seems like an awesome lady…

The lack of female writers is disappointing, given the show's huge female fanbase and the fact that Scully is such an iconic female character. But, to me, the worrisome thing is the lack of experience, especially coming off that disappointing new season. I mean, who knows, might be a good thing to have fresh blood…

Indeed - I feel like the "he's right, she's wrong" aspect was a little more nuanced than most people remember. And their roles and beliefs did shift and even reverse sometimes as the show went on. Particularly around the fifth season, when Scully begins to open herself up to more "extreme" possibilities surrounding…

That was one of many huge missed opportunities in the revival. To recognize how Mulder's fringe theories have become somewhat mainstream since the original run, and what effect this would have on Mulder, an otherwise reasonable, educated guy. Would he become the "Scully," trying to debunk bullshit like Pizzagate? I…

Upvote for Jay Som - I was surprised that Everybody Works didn't make the list.

There was also a heavy 50s kitsch vibe in a lot of 80s pop culture touchstones - Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Earth Girls are Easy, the John Waters oeuvre and the B-52s off the top of my head. The new-wave adaptation of 50s-era thrift store clothes and design seems to have brought a little color and humor into an otherwise…

This actually sounds potentially worse to me than firing the directors. How hard can it be to do a credible Harrison Ford? He's already got the squinty part down, and it's pretty much just alternating deadpan and aggravated cursing from there on out.

I dunno about their ilk, but, as a huge GBV fan who has also been out of work since the start of the year, I kind of wish Bob would take a short vacation from recording albums until I have some disposable income again.

Wow, only a couple weeks of shooting left? Yeah, this is dire. Between this and having to rewrite Leia out of Ep 9, this whole Star Wars re-launch thing is feeling unexpectedly shaky all of a sudden.

Ask your MD - there are actually monitors now that you can use at home. I used to work for a PCP who used them. I think the typical cost for someone without insurance was around $200-250. I think if they discovered possible apnea, they would then refer out to a sleep specialist, who would be the one to fit you for…

Get it checked out, Corvus! If you do have sleep apnea, a simple CPAP machine will help you sleep so much better and, in extreme cases, might even save your life. Not to sound ominous or anything, but it's better to do a sleep study and rule it out than not.

Yeah, this is a peculiar diagnosis - I think the reports at the time described a "passenger in distress," but if she had sleep apnea and fell asleep on the plane, that would've likely been a very peaceful, distress-free way to go. Not to scare any of you with this condition, but my dad died as a result of his quite…

I'd love to help you, but I shamefully admit that I went the bootlegged blu-ray route. What can I say, I just like physical media…

I'm guessing it's the Fox ownership issue, but it seems like they'd be able to come to some sort of revenue-sharing agreement by now. Otherwise, what's a lawyer for?

Yes, thank you - the loss of Brian Epstein was roughly a thousand times more impactful on the breakup of the Beatles than the introduction of Yoko Ono. Suddenly they went from four guys with a boss to one guy trying to be the boss of the other three, clearly not a built-to-last dynamic. And yet, so much easier to…

Second this - definitely the best Stones book I've read, and a great companion piece to the film Gimme Shelter.