Yes, and she was played by noir great Jane Greer.

What's really obnoxious about it is that is basically demeans the woman. 40 years old is a grown ass woman; it's pretty anti-feminist to assume that Lynch is creeping on her and taking advantage of her. Grown ass woman can make her own choices.

There's a Cheers episode that plays this for laughs.

I still wish Michael Mann and De Niro went ahead with Frankie Machine, maybe add a little juju to both of their artistically stalled careers. (I do like late-period Mann even with all its warts though)

My teenager memory of Crash: A bunch of friends had heard that Crash was a great J.G. Ballard novel and we should all see the adaptation—none of us had any clue what we were in for. The best part is it was essentially a double date. So we all sat down to enjoy the film, and well, Crash was projected, perhaps the…

Great list generally, though perhaps not my preferred order. Boogie Nights, LA Confidential and The Ice Storm would of hit 1, 2 and 3 with bullets. Love the inclusion of Starship Troopers so high on the list though.

I don't know who these strawmen are, but you do seem to have a real seething hatred for them.

I had some friends come over and watch the first ten in a row. It was definitely quite the committment, but it really reinforced the story points, to the extent that I almost laugh when someone says something doesn't make sense now. Sure, there are some new mysteries (where is Audrey exactly?), but overall it's all…

There's also the king of the British black facers: Papa Lazarou on League of Gentlemen. Though in the League's defense, he's not supposed to be white, black or human even (Roma and Travelers are the only people who would have a real beef with him), and he's also just a great outrageous character in a show full of them.

Or Million Dollar Baby?

It wasn't my first exposure to trans culture, but it was the first to change my thinking about it. It's the first film I saw where a trans person was a human being and not a grotesque caricature. For me, it was a watershed cultural moment and certainly helped me change for the better.

Well, the criticism isn't exactly that (I was being a tad slippery there), it's that a non-trans person was cast as a trans character. I personally don't buy it (imo it's a great film), but there are a lot of people out there who take big exception with that.

Besides being a highly dated attack (might as well high-five Virginia Woolf for Orlando while we're at it), it's worth noting that trans-phobia was pretty much the de facto norm in mainstream American culture until very recently. I'm not condoning it, but there was a time too long ago when films like "Boys Don't Cry"…

You're hilarious.

You must be fun at parties. LET ME TELL HOW YOU'RE LYING TO YOURSELF BY THINKING SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE IS GOOD. That's pretty much all you do in these comments. And it never even occurs to you that a lot of people on here may actually know a lot more about film and television than you do. That's the most inane aspect…

I do like when the one detective throws her a reality check about her kid's future if she goes to prison for Kilmer's character. Didn't really like it for her. Just liked watching the guy wipe the smug look off her face.

I liked it more on second viewing, but I certainly felt the same way after my first viewing. I don't think it's as atrocious as some. but after a great run of episodes starting with 8 it definitely felt like a speed bump.

I have to wonder how audiences who think this is so excruciatingly slow would feel about any number of art film classics before 1980. The pacing isn't all that slow, just by contemporary tv standards.

A day passed between the scenes, unless I'm mistaken.

I was commenting on the general discussion here, not just your comment.