One Tom Hardy? Two Tom Hardys? But he- But you can't- Oh, my medication!

It comes from a larger essay called "Papering the Cracks," which is well worth reading in full. Not sure if it's online anywhere, but you can get it in Wood's collection Hollywood from Reagan to Vietnam: http://www.amazon.com/Holly…

I'm not as down on the legacy of Star Wars as you are, but I do agree that its legacy has been largely (though not entirely) bad.

Someone get Jacques Demy on the case!

I didn't like it that much, but it was definitely far from Sandler's worst. Way, way better than, say, Grown Ups or Jack and Jill.

I have seen zero evidence of that. He's expressed nothing but pride in The Cobbler in every interview that's asked him about it. I see no reason to favor idle speculation about meddling producers — which is really not evident in the movie itself — over McCarthy's own consistent statements about the movie. It's his…

"But I can tell you I’ve taken something from each movie. Even "The Cobbler" — which, as you know, wasn’t very critically well-received — I loved that movie…. Some people shy around "The Cobbler." "The Cobbler" will always be a very special film to me. I’ve had a lot of wonderful response from "The Cobbler." I’m not…

two of the best fucking actresses gazing longly at each other

Yeah, this was the one time when Brooks seemed to choose his subject matter more for its popularity than for his own affection for the material.

Glad to see I'm not alone in remembering that odd opinion.

As Brooks got older, there was almost no parody he could come up with that was fresh enough to still be relevant.

Same for me (and apparently lots of others!). I love Brooks, but Spaceballs really doesn't do it for me. It seems pitched toward children in a way his other films — even the not-so-good ones like Dracula: Dead and Loving It, which I still prefer to Spaceballs — are not.

FWIW Elvira has done some stuff for Hulu, too.

It's a parody of the Maysles Brothers documentary Salesman, about door-to-door bible salesmen.

I agree, but weirdly I've seen a few reviews that pointed to that sketch as a high point. Mr. Show seems to hit people's comedy receptors in very different ways. (Example: I remember Leonard Pierce (RIP) calling "Hunger Strike" one of the best Mr. Show sketches, and that one just does nothing for me.)

Jay's comedic gifts lied more in physical comedy

Yep, Shingy is really much more absurd than the
Shangy character. That guy has a truly Ben Carsonian ability to preempt his own satirizers.

Ah, New Orleans. The Big Easy. Sweet Lady Gumbo. Old … Swampy.
I can't wait to hear about all the exciting, sexy adventures they're sure to have against this colorful backdrop.

It certainly foregrounds the homoeroticism of high school athletics.

A gore-heavy sketch comedy featuring Wayne Knight and Bill Plympton cartoons? That sounds like my kind of show!