Since Arrested Development was helmed and narrated by one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood I don’t think Theron’s participation qualified as slumming.

OK list, but they missed Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere. Belle de Jour, Diary of a Chambermaid, Milky Way, Tristana, Discreet Charm, Phantom of Liberty, Obscure Object of Desire ...may not be an unmatched run but it’s highly impressive.

Paul Ryan: I’ve had candid conversations with the shooter. His heart is in the right place. He’s still learning how to interact constructively with other living beings.

I’ll always wish Dumas had also invented the Monte Cristo sandwich and found a way to devote 10-plus pages describing its preparation in The Count of...

Be cool if John Kelly stepped down now and let us know he also thinks Trump is too inept and petty to take seriously, much less support.

Incorrect. The Alpha Beta my family shopped at in my youth placed them on the upper left corner of the rack. Just out of my 9-year-old reach.

Dylan - he so completely owns his aesthetic now that it is impossible for him to release music that isn’t representative of his genius.

I got to the double date with the Sly Stone stand in, where the usual screaming match between Canavale and Olivia Wilde ensued. Had a dinner appointment and intended to finish the episode. But after procrastinating for several days I decided I just didn’t enjoy the show and stopped. The last couple seasons of…

No. Just a fan of Scorsese, Jagger, Canavale, Winter etc. who wishes they had delivered a better, less histrionic, show. Still bitter but genuinely wishing the best for The Deuce.

Considering HBO did the same to Vinyl after its first episode a couple years ago I’d take this more as a gesture than a guarantee.

So, CBS can get both Sheldons to present an award but not the complete cast of NCIS LA or Criminal Minds? What kind of clout is that? At this rate we’ll never see a 15-minute tribute to the CSI franchise before best dramatic series is announced.

Don’t have the clip handy, but check out Inland Empire to watch him completely upstage Jeremy Irons and Laura Dern during the audition scene early on. All he does is take a cigarette out if the box, light it and take a puff. His process is methodical, yet offhand ...and you can barely pay attention to the other two…

Now to apologize for that lame superhero song I listen to while driving my daughter to school.

“My urges relieved, I now ask that you show respect for my humanity and service to country by holding your questions and comments for the next hour or so while I nap.”

“Whether coaching or playing football, basketball, baseball or tennis, Stagg would spend every evening lying on his couch listening to radio programs with three large bottles of beer and a sack of potato chips. Rare was the night where his unconscious, crumb-laden carcass didn’t have to be dragged to his  bedroom…

Listened to Neil Young’s “lost album” Hitchhiker. I added the quotes because it’s just Neil recording demos with producer David Briggs; it doesn’t sound like it was meant as a standalone work. While most of the songs would appear on later albums or compilations, the ones I liked most were less familiar: “Give Me…

My own fault for not Googling quotes before pontificating. Happy to lighten your Friday.

Who said or wrote that? David Fricke? Seems awfully reductive. I was listening to the radio in ‘78 and know how impossible it was to escape the brothers Gibb, as well as Andy, Samantha Sang, etc. But I can’t deny that “How Deep Is Your Love” is a true classic that I enjoy hearing as much as “Since I’ve Been Loving…

Billie Holiday - “You’ve Changed.”

But they deliberately set out to make a lot money with the least possible imagination, which is why we were subjected to another Transformers sequel. “Good” or not, we don’t need any more.