Interesting list. But Ali served no time. And while braggart jocks preceded him —white ones, no less — he invited generations of less self-mocking preeners to do as he did, and the death of sportsmanship as a concept can look to him as patient zero.

Has anybody done an ID the sell-outs link for this crowd? Amazed that it’s not just TV and web folk, but it would be nice to have the forever-compromised exposed and held up to the career-busting ridicule they deserve.

This is what the whole sorry lot of them need to be confronting every day of their bubble-protected lives, from here on out. They should feel hounded and hated. Bravo. Well played.

Mick Krizilonski isn’t the voice of moral authority of college hoops. He isn’t even the voice of moral authority in ACC hoops. That’s Tony Bennett at UVa.

Judd Apatow built a whole comedy-making style on “the best joke on the set wins.” I doubt if there was a lot of “Let’s give her funny improv to Jonah Hill” there. It’s just not done. Danny Aiello got into a near brawl with Rupert Everett for stealing his improv bits in Altman’s “Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear.” Again,…

This “Golden Age” argument seems more based on quantity than some newly discovered magic formula for great TV drama. “The Night Of” and “Night Manager” were pretty good, but the slack storytelling means the writers have to inject kitchen sink melodrama into such shows to stretch them out via a series of cliffhangers.…

Deep Purple got in last year. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/deep-purple-rocks-hall-of-fame-with-hits-filled-set-20160408

“The Grand Tour” has yet to top this. Last coupla scenes of “Classic Gear” didn’t manage that, either.

Unlike Paris Hilton or any Kardashian, Gabor had something that caused John Huston and Orson Welles to cast her, to good effect, in movies that endure. The talk show “fame” that came from her exotic name and gold digging shtick came later.

Classic “What I SHOULD HAVE said,” comeback. And it was the heckler-tested comic who got owned. Tilda holds serve. The appease the Chinese argument needed to be in the actual chat. It’s a game changer. Yeah, Hollywood is pandering to those assholes like they’re the new boss.

Nicely done.

The movies keep underlining the “f” in “formulaic,” but this one has more heart and variations than most. I like the Zatoichi touches and the sacrificial fatalism of the new one. Other than that, his thesis that “Enough with the fucking Death Star/Cute Droid/Dogfights/orphan hero-heroine goop” of it all has some…

What a lovely piece of NFL arcana to summon up. Plainly, this was an idea before its time. Today, or two years ago, before the league jumped the shark, each team cutting versions of this LP would be a goldmine.

In the U.S., no CEO ever pays for his or her share in of blame in an accident. Which is a pity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592

Bernie Sanders is just anxious to keep the subject on reasons people voted for Trump, and not his role in this debacle. After the GOP admitted Benghazi was for “driving her negatives up,” Bernie, Comey and Assange were the three major drivers of Hillary’s negatives. This shit is on him, and is the question anybody…

Let’s remember context, as in “I’m Still Here” as “performance art.” Not sure how this plays into that whole fake/indulgent/delusional “pose” star on a bender thing, but it’s not a stretch to suggest this is part and parcel of that. Remembering something similarly nasty attached to Jerry O’Connell and Anthony Anderson…

Whoa, how’d that buffet of butch “Hell or High Water” get in there, Digits?

Darwin demands the sacrifice of the criminally stupid, to save the rest of the herd.

Of course it’s a Subaru.

She’s been angling for Queen Bitch of the Bitchy Queens since “Seinfeld.” She saw what pulled in that audience, and went the Full Joan Rivers to get it.