In a perfect world, NEW MUTANTS would be a tv franchise to parallel a series of X-MEN features. Maybe with Marvel TV and film now under Feige’s control, the MCU mutants will be able to coordinate such a thing.

“[Actor X] - you wanna play Xavier in X-MEN? Fine - you also have to do 3 appearances a year on our NEW…

Despite not really knowing the old PERRY MASON show, I knew the theme through pop-culture seepage and The Blues Brothers recording a version of it in the 80s. Now that message boards have clued me into who all the characters on the HBO version become on the original show, the lyrics Elwood added (and invented?) really…

Counter-counterpoint: Homeland and Brody.

Newman should have won for NOBODY’S FOOL.

Public Service Announcement for those watching STARGIRL on the CW: this week’s episode is listed as simply “Stargirl” in the FiOS program guide. Problem is my season-long DVR entry is under “DC’s Stargirl” (as prior episodes were listed), so it would have not recorded had I not noticed. Not sure if this applies to…

I realize it was a couple years away, but nowadays JUSTIFIED would like a word. ; )

Others (Robert Justman, maybe) have claimed Roddenberry’s “NBC was scared of a woman first officer!” story was just so much spin. Their version was “NBC told Roddenberry he couldn’t cast his mistress as the second lead of the show.” And point to Barbara Bain on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, among others, as “strong female…

Can anyone explain why a black woman would vote for Trump? As I got off the elevator in my (Brooklyn) polling station in 2016, a mid-30s woman scooped her toddler up and cheerfully exited ahead of me with “C’mon, baby - let’s go stop Hillary!”

I guess that’s the answer in and of itself, but almost four years later I’m…

They shot it with an existing Prince track - I want to say “1999,” but don’t hold me to it. . .

Cosigned. You’d like us men to do better, but not many would have that kind of self-control.

It’s like I’ve said about the (initial) Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie affair: I don’t get how a guy cheats on Jennifer Aniston. . . but by the same token I don’t know how you’d resist Angelina Jolie coming after you either.

Frasier Crane? Pedantic?

Has D’Arnot appeared in any other Tarzan adaptations? He’s a big part of the book, and Holm kills in the role in GREYSTOKE. But I can’t think of another screen appearance of the character. . .

Seconded. LOVED his D’Arnot.

Agreed that recasting Kate Kane is the way to go.

I would have pegged Admiral Paris as the go-to TREK mention for this obit.

Yup, and Jay Mohr. Hysterical episode. Milch’s GWB story killed me.

I’ve said for years that the biggest problem with that movie (and, honestly, Geoff Johns’ take on the character in the comics) is that it tries to make Hal Jordan into Gordo Cooper, when he was always Alan Shepherd.

Whatever the movie’s crimes, at least this article made me realize that Lauren Lapkus and Mageina Tovah are two different people. . . (it’s those big eyes)

I always forget who this guy is because he doesn’t look like a “Clark Duke” to me. Either I think of Clark Gregg, or the confluence of Michael Clarke Duncan and Bill Duke makes me think “Clark Duke” must be a black actor.

See also Marlon Brando’s “Kryptin” in SUPERMAN. . .