She’d be pretty awesome in the role, but they’d properly have to subject her to Scorsese-style de-aging, because the trailer-park mother of a high school senior should really be pushing 40 years old at most... Even with a ‘70s-style cast of 20-somethings.

Isn’t it strange that a branch of fiction should thrive so fully when its most prominent emissary has been widely ostracized for his odious politics

*That* seems a bit of a stretch. I’m familiar with both the historical Admiral, and his Star Trek namesake, but I don’t see a feline connection. I think Some Other Dude Now’s explanation seems most likely, particularly if Eliot also references “Pollicle dogs”

You must have loved the second episode of the show, then. ;)

Thanks for elucidating. I suppose that if this had been a success, we could look forward to the sequel, Dogs, in a Christmas or two.

So, is “jellicle” supposed to be a slurred version of “Angelical”? And does that mean Eliot’s whole book is meant to have overtones of biblical, or at least Anglican prayer book, parody?

...we got Cats instead. If that isn’t an indictment of Pop Culture in Trump’s America then I don’t know what is.

“Slincoln” is right there!

I was amused off the bat for having actually worked a mail-sorting temp gig about 25 years ago. Alas, there wasn’t much surrogate Santa playing — It was pretty much all sorting greeting cards to go to all the neighboring zip codes.

A “contemporized” Dirty Dozen? So, they’re what... trying to knock off Kim Jong Un?

I believe you’re right. He also played a Pole in The Great Escape, where he not only survived survived, but escaped.

That double initial would definitely predestine her that way in a DC universe...

You can iron that way (heating the implement over a fire) or simply by unplugging the iron after it’s hot, but either way the iron’s going to remain hot for all of a second or two under water.

Except that “Lloyd” isn’t properly pronounced “Lloyd” in Welsh — the double-L comes out sounding something like an “S” with a “lateral lisp” (as displayed by Rudy Giuliani and Dear Abby).

And, of course, Benchley was kind of horrified for the rest of his life with what he’d wrought in terms of public hostility toward sharks.

It’s very much the sort of “head-in-the-sand” response appropriate to a smarmy local politician who wants everything to get back to normal so he can get back to doing all the fun mayor stuff. I suspect he may have come across that much more contemptible in the book, where he’s dealing with the mafia and might actually…

Jaws was right at the cusp when aluminum cans were taking over from steel. Crushing a steel can actually made sense as a form of macho display. Aluminum, not so much...

It’s an awful lot pulpier than the movie, and a somewhat grimmer tone. The “Page to Screen” on Die Hard made that book seem like even more of a downer.

If Jurassic Park had been about a single predatory dinosaur, he might have had a point. Given that it was supposed to be as much about spectacle and wonder as about fear, I think Spielberg made the right call.

And including Spielberg’s debut with Duel, of course...