I have a personal theory about casting Much Ado About Nothing: pretty much everybody gets Claudio wrong by assigning the role to some stereotypically fresh-faced “pretty boy.” If I were directing a version, I’d cast some guy like Charlie Hunnam or Richard Ashton—a shy, hulking, rough-edged enforcer who’s not ordinary…

Though Shakespeare is the earliest example of romantic comedy most of us are likely to read, the form’s as old as the Greek “New Comedy” of Menander, and his Roman dévotés Plautus and Terence.

5K well spent.

If the Shining Knight is anything like the comic-book version, then yes: he time-travelled (or at least got suspended-aminationed) to the present day. And Sir Justin’s comic-book dialogue was always old-timey .. even though the English language we know didn’t exist in Arthurian times, and a real Arthurian knight…

Transnistria, along with the other districts in the “Community For Democracy And Rights Of Nations,” is a Russia-friendly minority region in a former Soviet republic. On the one hand, one wants to respect their minority rights and make sure their majority-led governments don’t run roughshod over them. ON THE OTHER…

Well, I was hoping for something more glowing.

Did Callaghan say whether the Body Shots Killer came through?

In my country’s defense, even poor-quality Confederate dollars are worth around US $15.oo today. Should have just ridden out the inflation.

Met Grant twice, and he was one of the single nicest human beings ever. I’ll always treasure the quarter-second of MB footage that featured my then-wife & me ... but I treasure even more the time we spent hanging out with Grant. Ave atque vale.

I’m sure you’d imagine so.

Your premises are false. Power doesn’t enter into it.

I’m more inclined to say the thing is—yes, one would like to like to have sex ... but even more than that, one would like to be the sort of person that another person could conceivably find attractive. A sex worker might well be available, but what one might want more than anything else is to be the sort of person…

People who doubt Liam Neeson’s comic potential should rewatch Darkman. At numerous points, Neeson plays the character for outright comedy—but still invests it all with his trademark intensity and intimidating physicality.

How can Henry Jr. NOT end up a villain? Little shit didn’t even rewind the tapes.

Didn’t know that! But even if so, his character’s situation gives the role plenty of inherent pathos, and Chase’s performance isn’t so broad as to make anyone forget that.

I guess. But dammit, I want a Travis McGee franchise to get its shot first.

I’d say Memoirs of an Invisible Man was extremely underrated, and was Chase’s last good film work—in a mostly dramatic role, no less. The movie smartly gives us a Chevy Chase-like character, and then strips him of all the worldly & personal connections he once snarked at and held at semi-hostile arm’s length. The…

I wasn’t lucky enough to score the last ending in 1985, but I remember almost audibly geeking out when Lee Ving made his appearance.

At this point, I’m just waiting for Jane Lynch to spontaneously combust.

Honestly, I can watch that little turd Gavroche cash it in over and over again without ever getting tired.