David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
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David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
I wonβt pretend to have any Big Thoughts about Robert Redford, but his last movie, The Old Man & The Gun, was really cute. I felt good when I left the theater, and that almost never happens. (Plus, Tom Waits in a supporting role.)
Itβs okay, Iβm sure you can watch it on DVD someday.
It bothers me all the time. For twenty years now.
A moment of silence now to commemorate the tragic loss of John Ritter, who died this day in 2003 and should have won the Oscar for Sling Blade.
Iβm almost positive that the new Spinal Tap will be terrible and it bums me out so bad. Reminds me of the Zoolander sequel that was just a string of celebrity cameos.
If you donβt watch this, you do not support me and you are officially a hater.
The only movie I care about seeing. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Also: one of those movies that shows the weaknesses of streaming. That movie was a huge deal but itβs almost impossible to find.
Rewatched Sling Blade. What a picture. John Ritter and Dwight Yoakam are so damn good in it.
Wanna go?
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Just learned that Jackie Robinsonβs widow Rachel, founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, is somehow still kicking at 103.
Yes. Iβll have nothing, but the TV is good. Itβs like Dick Cavett is jumping right out at you.
Any woman who stays with me needs to know that I have Dick Cavett reruns on twenty. four. hours. a. day. And I'm gonna try and talk about every single episode, even if I was in the other room.
Hey, I was at that huge Bernie (Neil Young) rally downtown.
Hey, just to be clear, if anybody wants me to write something with them for money, I'm actually not bad at collaborating. I'm not some weird recluse.
Sidebar: I was recently offered a sit-down with Robert Plant--how about you guys just hang out!!--but I could not sell it. I think editors thought "this is gonna be about that bluegrass shit, isn't it. They're gonna talk about Blind Willie Johnson aren't they."
I know this is old man stuff, but it's so funny that Robert Plant does one reunion show with Led Zeppelin, it works great, they threaten a tour that would make a billion dollars, he says nah, then he promptly runs away to make slowcore bluegrass for the rest of his life.
My review of the very good King of the Hill revival is that it needlessly makes me miss Tom Petty again. I was right there at the Hollywood Bowl and then snap. It was like ten minutes ago and itβs always gonna be ten minutes ago. Probably how people felt about Elvis. I get that now.
A screenshot from King of the Hill stylized as Game Boy Color graphics using the rusty brown color palette. Hank Hill is reading a note in his living room. Text at the bottom of the screen says "Mr. Hill, I just got my first period."
A screenshot from King of the Hill stylized as Game Boy Color graphics using the rusty brown color palette. Hank Hill looks terrified with his mouth agape. Text on the bottom reads "BWAAAAAAH!"
Game Boy Color Fridays
Sidebar: itβs amazing how many of critic John Simonβs negative reviews were just writing around βthis has Jews in it.β
I see the point definitely. Get Smart is funnier than most 80s comedy. (I know this is kind of an extension of The Producers sort of, but never mind.)
Wow, great cast.
I have not. Iβll investigate.
I know Iβm the second or third person to say this, but the script to The Producers is one of the funniest Iβve ever seen, and it boggles the mind that it came out in the 60s, an unfunny decade.