Here’s my favorite Carter-gets-the-job-done skit from the Ackroyd SNL days:

I really liked the show a lot, but there was a drop off each season from the stellar first (with S2 still being pretty great). The only Rob Thomas show I can think of that can be said to have improved on S1 is Party Down.

Rapacious, often bloodthirsty, capitalism masked and sold as some sort of mythical individual freedom.

I read The Hobbit to my kid when he was 7 (nearly 9 now), and it was amazing and he loved it, and I’ll never read LoTR to him. Not that I don’t like it, but what I loved about it when I was younger was coming to it on my own, reading it to myself. The Hobbits hiding from the black rider on the side of the road freaked…

I love “napalm in the morning” and “Charlie don’t surf” and all that, but no way Duvall’s 10 minutes or whatever beats what Melvyn Douglas did in Being There, a beautiful and nuanced performance that had to be the “second” straight man to Sellers’s Chance and really convince that Rand would be one of America’s great…

Likewise . . . my dad, visiting from a few states away, took me to see it in the cinema. I was 9. I think he thought, “it’s Hoffman, and it’s supposed to be good.” That was a tough watch, but I remember liking the kid. Ugh.

Hustons are four gens, really, although not all of them have been mega stars (they are one of only two families to have three generations of Oscar winners). Can’t think of many other three-gen families now, but for two gens that could compete with the Douglases, there’s also Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher (maybe…

“Ever” is a mighty long time. There’s the huge Barrymore and Huston acting families, and the Chaplins, too, plus, fairly contemporaneous to the Douglases, there’s Lloyd Bridges and his sons.

There’s definitely more than a little truth to what you’re saying. I’m not sure that’s the case with Chinatown - or, at least, not mostly. Polanski may have been a monster about to pounce, and he was certainly a prick to Sharon Tate some of the time (even as he also seemed to love her). But his insistence on changing…

The movie’s about the rot at the core of American success, it’s about racism and rape, and about how rich white men like Cross don’t give a flying fuck about women, Chinese (or any non-whites for that matter), or any semblance of ethics, and about how those men run the country. And it’s about how, no matter how hard…

I wanted to like the first one so much, that I think it actually got in the way of my enjoying it in the cinema. It was quite a bit different from what I’s expected, so I read that as “not very good” at the time (and I was really hoping for some Liz Phair on that soundtrack, dammit!). But I’ve rewatched twice now and…

Nah, Van Halen’s great (Dave-era, that is) - spent a few weeks revisiting those first six albums recently, and they’re a ton of fun. The band is killer, Dave brings it on every song, and EVH is basically inventing rock guitar sounds that would influence rock sound for decades to come (including some proto grunge).…

Yeah, I meant to agree with you (sorry if that wasn’t clear), and only tacked on the ‘btw’ for other posters I’d seen below!

Also, Miles Davis.

No, but they did invent the expression “the greatest thing since sliced bread,” which they still say all the fucking time, like, I know sliced bread is cool and all, but jesus, dudes, aim higher.

Yup, sort of stumbled across the first one with the fam, and now it’s got fairly regular replay status in the house (and probably will do until my kid reaches that age where all things from his childhood are “lame”). We’ll definitely be making the family outing for this one, probably between xmas and new year’s.

I haven’t listened to Beck in ages (cuz, fuck scientology), and never really dug him that much to begin with, but even I know this take is so wrong it makes stupid sit up and laugh.

“Carly Rae Jepsen was robbed, honestly”

Mid-Atlantic (in the sense of the accent) isn’t really a place - it’s meant to mean something like an accent that meets in the middle of the Atlantic, i.e. partly British, partly American (sometimes called a transatlantic accent). Like others above have pointe out, not many were still speaking it by the mid-80s…

Just joining the Juliana love - been a fan for a long time and would listen to her sing just about anything!