I liked this comment. Well said all around.

Blue Heaven is the unofficial sequel. Written by Nicholas Pileggi’s wife, Nora F’ing Ephron, Blue Heaven cast Steve Martin as a mobster “trying” to live a straight, anonymous life in the suburbs. Ephron wrote it based on convos she had whenever Henry Hill called to speak to Nicholas. 

Not only are they adapting existing characters, character traits, and personalities, but there were several attempts at scripting this movie previously, all of which helped to inform the direction of the version that was ultimately filmed. This was a film built upon the creative work of a number of earlier versions,…

His Poirot ( Death on the Nile) was on PBS last night.

Now who’s that floating outside my bedroom window?

Good Bye, David Soul. Whenever I read (4 times and counting) Salem’s Lot, my favorite novel, I picture Ben Mears looking like you. Yes, King’s description of the character makers him look almost nothing like you, but thanks to your performance in the 1979 film (I saw it as a film, I was 1 year old in ‘79, lol), yours i…

Back then Starsky and Hutch was the second most badass show on tv, the first being S.W.A.T. of course. He and Glaser had great chemistry together, good memories.

The latter terrified the crap out of me.  RIP

The solution is simple - tell them not to tour. Fuck us, they won’t do what we tell them, they do loads of concerts; problem solved.

Rage Against the Dialysis Machine

What else do we really need from them?

Like... he's not even telling goddamn jokes. He and his defenders try to pass it all off as people being too uptight, but one of his supposed 'jokes' is him literally just saying that trans people are holding LGB people back. That was it. No 'punchline', no nothing. Literally just that statement.

Meh, give it a decade or two and they’ll be back together when they find out that Medicare doesn’t cover their hip replacements or whatever.

he SUSPECTED people were laughing at the jokes for racist reasons and there’s really no reason to think he was right about that.  People identified with his comedy, the fact that a white crew member laughed at a joke about whatever probably meant his family was like that also.  People don’t often just say “what if it…

I think there’s also a misconception that the punchlines are offensive, but funny. The bigger criticism is that they are offensive and also not funny. They aren’t somehow incisive and nuanced takes on the things that divide us. They are hack-y jokes with punchlines that are essentially “Trans people, amirite?”

I saw Carlin twice in my life. Once in late 2000, when he announced that his next special would be called “I Think I Kinda Like it When A Lotta People Die.” Then once again shortly after 9/11. He hadn’t ended up naming his special that, and he started his late-period “Cranky old man” show with a brief but earnest talk…

I will admit I'm not as into later Carlin, but he never became hacky.  He just became really cynical and sad and honestly I'm not going to blame for that.  It was just harder to watch.

Trouble is, if took time to make to search for trans news or LGBTQ news he’d learn that about one transperson a week is murdered in the United States.

Maybe it’s because I’m probably older than the average person who here seems to get easily offended... but in my many decades on this planet, long before the internet existed, I’ve heard thousands of jokes about jews and the holocaust in my years.... if I had allowed myself to get offended and angry over them, I’d be…

Look, Gervais went from a decade of regurgitating the same anti-religion jokes, to now making the same anti-cancel culture jokes. He’s been a hack for so long. Anyone who hasn’t caught on by now is the mark, they just haven’t realized it yet.