Face Off>The Rock>Con Air for me. Face off has the more gonzo premise and two Nicolas Cages, and The Rock has that Sorkin/Tarantino script doctoring. Con Air's the only one of the three that drags; it's got a few too many characters and about half an hour too much runtime. Still fucking marvelous, though.

They're very good! He really gets into the material and clearly loves and respects the songwriting of the originals, plus he absolutely commits to the performance. A lot of times those standards albums are either phoned in or don't have any appreciation for the source material, but these absolutely feel like what…

Not even the worst film Eric Roberts has been in.

Christian Bale based his performance in American Psycho on Tom Cruise interviews, so you're not wrong.

It does seem selfish to run instead of driving when those child slaves built him that nice car, though.

You're not wrong— whenever I'm in Asheville, it involves working up a two-day buzz on the local stuff. I can cut Wicked Weed out of that list and still have 28 beers at Barley's that are in roughly the same quality range.

Yeah, at least OB isn't a behemoth and seems to care about the craft.

He definitely thinks so— his recent oldies records seem predicated on trying to convince his audience to actually listen to him for his music for once. I love them; when I saw him live last year he did a lot of old Tin Pan Alley standards, and the arrangements and his old crooner performance were really beautiful and…

The argument of the Nobel committee seems to be that Dylan's work opened up the consideration that lyrics could be music, and that he deserves to be recognized for that. I think it's a strong argument, even if there are worthier candidates.

Pynchon will be disqualified when everything he wrote comes true, retroactively classifying his books as journalism.

Hideo Kojima will, for six hours.

Franzen doesn't have a choice about hanging out with assholes. He works with Ted Cruz.

Aw, good for him!

It wasn't really an unspoken secret, even. He faced a civil suit over it and it was in the news. Society just sort of agreed to ignore it until Hannibal Burress, god bless him, decided that it was worth making a big deal of.

I don't know how Vogon has conversations on this website. At least half of the regular commenters must be on his block list.

That assumes that every woman he raped spoke up.

My favorite is the reveal of him with rabbit ears in Were-Rabbit, and his explanation of, "It's just the toxins coming out."

Eazy E's never faked outrage in his/her life.

Hey, did somebody say "defending child rape?"