This article alludes to some fighting between the Wayanses and Fox execs, but what exactly was the story behind In Living Color getting killed so quickly? I always have this sense (probably because of Comedy Central reruns) that it lasted for a fairly long time, but it was actually only on for five years.

Dammit. We really need a satanic pop star.

Ask John Mulaney.

Yeah it looks like he got scribbled all over.

I'm a little spoiled because I live so close to the AFI, so I never lack for interesting opportunities, but, in general, I basically agree with you. I think with AFI, E Street, NGA, Freer-Sackler, Avalon, the Angelika Pop-Up, and random embassy screenings, DC just barely manages to put together a decent assortment of…

Nope, the correct version of this song is: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

50 Words for Snow is great, and produced this amazing video - https://www.youtube.com/wat… - which is perhaps the Kate Bushiest thing ever made.

I just remember it as one of his sit-there-and-mumble-the-lines performances, which I guess is pretty much everything he did from Apocalypse Now on.

I prefer Gilbert O'Sullivan. He's a writer, not a fighter!

Me, too! I actually saw Rocky & Bullwinkle in the theater based on Ebert's review and DeNiro's involvement. In retrospect, my DeNiro fandom came of age at exactly the wrong moment. I saw R&B, Men of Honor, Meet the Parents, Analyze This and That, and Showtime in the theater based solely on DeNiro.

"But the real discovery of the movie is its (human) lead, a 23-year-old newcomer named Piper Perabo, who plays an FBI agent. She has fine comic timing and is so fetching, she sort of stops the clock. Like Renee Zellweger in 'Jerry Maguire,' she comes more or less out of nowhere (well, a couple of obscure…

For a second, I genuinely thought this site had accidentally posted a 15-year-old movie review to the front page before I looked it up and realized I was combining (the equally generically named) The Score from 2001, which also had DeNiro, and the Gene Hackman movie from the same year, which also had this title.

I could have sworn it was Cobie Smulders!

Sure, but those are easy cases. Nobody argues that discussing whether murder is legal should be illegal. And nobody argues that a verbal contract with a hitman should be legal.

They usually get around it via the argument that speech in that instance becomes action. I think that kind of just defines away the problem, though.

Charlize Theron in Monster

Haven't seen this in years, but I remember it making The New Republic seem like a respectable magazine, rather than Marty Peretz's playground for warmongering, liberal racism, neoconservative backdooring, and Ivy League boosterism. (Well, it did capture that last part.) Chris Hughes buying that rag is the best thing…

That seems to be the definitive one. I'd like to get around to it some day, but I'm drowning in books as it is. Rosenbaum (whom I trust implicitly on Welles) is even somewhat positive about it, which is pretty much a ringing endorsement coming from him. He also greatly prefers the second volume (which has a great…

I'd say that, if anything, doing Veep you’ll do a take and do another take, and if they feel like they got what they want, then they’ll do what they call a “fun run” where you can just do the same thing and add stuff peppered throughout.

Which bio are you reading? I haven't read a biography of him per se, just a few of the critical surveys of his work—Bazin's, McBride's, parts of Naremore's—and I agree that that part of the movie rang false to me, too. Seemed driven by the narrative they wanted more than by Welles himself. But the movie was more about…