And Petty spoke in the RUNNING DOWN A DREAM documentary about how he mocked the idea. “I said, ‘How can a new song be a greatest hit’? And then it turns out to be our biggest seller. . . “ (sly grin)

My parents had a strict “no-PG movies” for me when I was a little kid. Problem was, this policy continued after I was a *little* kid and was still in effect when STAR WARS came out the day before my 7th birthday. Despite having tons of the toys and comics and whatnot, and getting an assurance from my elementary school…

I saw an interview somewhere where (Abrams?) said McGregor was nice enough to record something for them for that sequence, but the sound editor was then able to finesse a “Rey” out of Obi-Wan’s “Don’t be afraid” to R2 in STAR WARS, so it’s actually Alec Guiness in FORCE AWAKENS afterall.

In my opinion, this doesn’t have much to do with the general, true trend of women not being paid as much as men or Lauer being revealed as a scumbag - I’d say Matt Lauer’s salary was just a result of him staying put for so long and being the senior anchor. I’ve been watching TODAY off and on since the 80s, and I…

I like the Mickey Rooney one, although my DC Comics-trained brain calls it THE SECRET ORIGIN OF SANTA CLAUS. Plus, Burgomeister Meiserburger rules!

PULP FICTION. Mayo on french fries. So good, and so bad for me.

Watching the original last night, all I could think of was Downey for Nick. So I’ll say RDJ and Eva Green (good choice from above!)

The STAR TREK II and III novels by the same author are even better. The novel for III runs a hundred pages before the film starts, and does a nice job of writing Carol Marcus out of the action, lays some more gradual groundwork for the problems with McCoy and the Genesis Planet, and sets up some nice character beats…

Probably just from grappling with Norman. That Reedus stank looks like it’d cling on to you for years. . .

Here’s something I wish the interviewer had followed up on so I’ll ask here and see if someone else can explain it: how do the statements “I lost the love of my life” and “...just recently, I fell even deeper in love than I’ve ever experienced” compute? If his wife was the love of his life, how can a new love be…

Catching up on K&P after the fact, it took me a minute to realize the revised theme and credits were goofing on the (I suppose then-new) TRUE DETECTIVE season one credits (going hand-in-hand with the wraps now being car-based). It took me another minute to realize that they were still using the original song and…

The only - ONLY - thing I’ll cop to liking about the theme song is how the layers of instrumentation build along with the advancement in spaceflight technology in the visuals. And they’re darn nice visual to boot. But, yeah, the lyrics are dire, and don’t really fit STAR TREK.

Petty Inclusiveness Watch: The monitors behind the band played a panorama of American girls during the above song - different ages/races/background. Petty made sure to include Alexis Arquette in the montage. I think there was a lesbian couple or two as well, but can’t swear to it.

Can someone please clarify (and spare me from actually watching KEVIN CAN WAIT) - I get there was a first-season wife and she was killed. My understanding is that Remini played Kevin James’ former NYPD partner in a s1 episode. So if that’s right, did those two characters get married after the offscreen death of the…

Okay, I’ll bite: in which previous shows was this stated? I only recall the one mention of Kirk being unable to learn it from Spock, and McCoy failing his nerve pinch attempt in STIII. And, sure, lots of fans - even me - have assumed for years that only a Vulcan could do it.

Others may have voice this elsewhere, but I haven’t seen it.. . .

“Milch went to a meeting at HBO to propose a series that was reducible to the pitch line ‘St. Paul gets collared.’ More expansively, he wanted to write about the lives of city cops in ancient Rome during Nero’s reign, before a system of justice had been codified. ‘I was interested in how people improvised the…

“But most important of all, we’ve learned that Supreme Leader Snoke himself is personally overseeing the final stages of the construction of this second Starkiller Base.” #findreplace #nailedit

Just testing the Kinja. Nothing to see here.

Except if it was the case I would think it would have been revealed before Tywin's death. After that. . . meh.