Not a remake, but Dolly Parton did turn it into a Broadway musical (which I would guess only upped the camp factor).

Joni complains they paved paradise to put up a parking lot, a measure
which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts
of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out,
perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the
world.

"We Love You, Call Collect" (which is fucking incredible and horrible, especially since Diane Linkletter had no drugs in her system at the time of her suicide) is the first thing I thought of while reading this article.

Cool, I didn't know that Source Family documentary was online. I got really into those Father Yod/YaHoWha 13/Spirit of '76 records a few years ago when they were blowing up the weirdo-music blogosphere. A lot of it's amateurish and awful, but some of the heavy rock albums, like Savage Sons and Contraction, are pretty…

Huh, so I guess it was in the Comedy Central version. Weird that I don't remember, since I watched SNL reruns a ton back then, but it's quite possible that I saw it and forgot it because it went completely over my head.

I did a sketch that was about Eric Bogosian and Spalding Gray doing kind
of a wrestling match with monologues, and it really worked out great. I
played Spalding, and Adam Sandler played Eric. And after it was on, it
did pretty well, and Lorne said, “You know, that’s never going to be
anyone’s favorite sketch on…

Yeah! I like to think of this movie as the secret history of Bert Cooper.

If you like Baumbach and/or Greta Gerwig, you are pretty much guaranteed to enjoy Frances Ha.

Nothing earth-shattering. She noted that the dialogue is all exactly as it was in the screenplay. Nothing was improvised, which I believe is the case with all of Baumbach's films.

I was lucky enough to catch The Heartbreak Kid (which is my favorite of her films) when it was briefly streaming on Netflix. You can stream a nice looking widescreen version of Ishtar through Crackle, though you will have to contend with brief commercial interruptions every 10 minutes or so.

I don't have much time for this today, but here you go…

I like how quickly and naturally this thread turned to neo-Nazis. It's like the reasonable Bizarro version of Youtube comments.

I'm not sure what I'm basing this on (Peggy Noonan-esque vibrations, I guess), but I feel like Danny Kaye is really out of fashion these days. And not just that people don't care about Danny Kaye (obviously, for the most part, they don't), but those who do know him tend to actively dislike him. Maybe it's just White…

Isaac Hayes concurs</b<>.

Yeah, it's amazing. But my personal favorite "Oh my God, they did that?!" episode of All in the Family is the one where Edith's transvestite friend Beverly is murdered in front of her eyes, causing Edith to lose her faith in God. And this was a Christmas episode that aired on Christmas Eve!

It's pretty cool that Jean Stapleton managed to outlive Edith Bunker by over three decades.

Damn, now Harmon will surely be too busy to reprise his role as Guy In Trailer in season 5 of Arrested Development.

And I got one for Seinfeld. What's. The deeal. With thaaat?

Yes! Along with The Big Lebowski and Casino, Die Hard 2 is THE classic cable-edit dub. Bruce Willis's lines sound like they were dubbed by Ben Stiller doing his Bruce Willis impression.

I really love the naming convention Steven Seagal had for his movies, which always lent themselves to the trailer guy intoning: