I mean, they did a successful stage musical just fine.

Yep. And to their credit, Disney avoids using the words "live-action" in the press release.

This isn't a live-action movie. Not at all. Not even to the limited degree that The Jungle Book was, where at least it had a real kid in it.

But also, Richard Linklater just made a coming-of-age movie this year, and that guy graduated high school in 1978.

I know all of that! My point is that it reads like a satirical memoir, not a tale of true love and high adventure. It doesn't seem to have the same target audience as the rest of the book.

Right, of course. But it's all about William Goldman, or at least a fictional version of him. All that stuff about his son is a completely different (and much more cynical) tone than the Buttercup/Westley story that makes up the main bulk of the novel.

2001, sir!

Yeah, that's fun. But again, only if you care about William Goldman and his career (real and/or fictional).

And "The Lying Detective" is the title of the upcoming Sherlock episode. Gwen got them switched around is all.

There were no "Of" episodes last season, for the first time since 1987. Moffat, you broke my heart.

"Sit" by Steven Moffat
"Genesis of the Krynoids" by, I don't know, Tom MacRae probably

Meanwhile, Mark Gatiss and Stephen Thompson are too entrenched in being thoroughly mediocre all the time.

Flight of the Conchords is another.

The worst part is that my wife owns and loves the book, so I've had a copy in my house for the past 7 years.

The Princess Bride, which is a good book that suffers from a framing device that's only interesting if you really care about William Goldman. The Buttercup/Westley story is still lovely, and the framing sequences are kind of funny, but they don't feel like they belong in the same book.

This makes me slightly less excited to read the book, although the fact that it's been 15 years since I first saw the movie - and I still haven't read it - tells me that I'm probably not all that excited after all.

Agreed. In "Crunchy Frog," for example, it's Cleese who loses his place, not Jones.

Two indeed - Jasmine and Mulan (singing voices only, although for Jasmine especially she would have been a good choice for the speaking voice as well).

Well, it only did two seasons (38 episodes), which isn't really enough for regular reruns anywhere. If it had aired a decade later, I bet it would have been pretty successful as a DVD set.

Yeah, that's me, Orrin!