I stopped watching The Office right after Jim & Pam got together, but I tuned in last week and this past Thursday to see the series end. As many of these things go, it was overlong and self-indulgent — but much of it was beautifully done, too. The best moment? Steve Carell’s Michael Scott making a [...]
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The time has come for an update of the 3D BD files…If I haven’t posted a thread for you in the last year, please list your favorite frosting flavor & strip-o-gram preference, along with your actual birth date. P.S. Kit, I’ll never get yours right on purpose, so don’t try sneaking in under [...] Best Moms in literature, film, TV, art, pop culture… 5. Brad Pitt’s Mom: Now there’s a woman who’s not afraid of the Supernova her son’s marrying. She’s not afraid of the libs who kiss her boy’s ass, either. 4. Marmee from Little Women: The political firebrand Susan Sarandon played in the 1994 film bore more [...] Rolling Stone just put out a list. This isn’t so much intro/exit themes, as songs played over sequences, or scenes of action, in a film. There’s the predictable (“In Your Eyes” from Say Anything) to the agreeable (“Oo La La” from Rushmore) to the only one on my list, too (“Tiny Dancer” from Almost Famous). Agree? [...] In memory of George Jones, whose most famous hit is the saddest of ‘em all. 5. A Bad Goodbye (Clint Black & Wynonna Judd): A lovely duet that’s all about divorce. As so many sad country songs are. 4. You Don’t Love Me Anymore (Eddie Rabbitt): Told ya. 3. Crying (Roy Orbison): Wonderful. And yet, [...]
I’m happy. I love O-line guys (my all-time favorite NFL player was a center), and KC needs to bring back the glory days of Joe & Tim & Will & Willie. How’s your team doing? Andy Levy already tweeted his greatest fear: @andylevy assuming the jets will draft a point guard
In honor of the Men (& Women) in Blue, who — as ever — rose to challenge after challenge this week, pick your MOVIE cop favorites. 5. Irish cop Pat O’Brien: His Mulligan in Some Like It Hot was a career homage. 4. Crazy cop Mel Gibson: Hard to remember now, but once upon a time, he was [...] Inspired by the recent Dallas reboot’s funeral episode, TV Guide named J.R. Ewing TV’s Biggest Bad. Who’s on your list of TV’s greatest villains? I was thinking of Al Swearengen from Deadwood: violent, vile, eloquent. And M*A*S*H‘s Frank Burns — the personification of every idiot who’s ever made your workplace hell. Then there’s Carly Benson Jones [...] What do you do when the Department of Defense’s Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute offers nine suggestions on how a bystander should nonviolently deal with rapists … and produce an instructional video to accompany it? Well, if you’re Counter Contempt’s David Stein, you mercilessly expose the DoD/DEOMI for the joke they are … and produce [...] That’s actually where I’ve been: a few episodes of my own, on my bed of pain (and not the fun kind that got me my nickname in the early days of Red Eye), now entering Week Three. So I’m dictating this Five. Choose a favorite TV show, and name its five best episodes. Feel free [...] Lost in the Great Pile-On of Seth Macfarlane’s Oscar hosting is the fact that “We Saw Your Boobs”…pretty funny. Especially in the face of that idiotic actress-y trope “only for artistic integrity” that gets thrown around in all those Vanity Fair interviews. What are your favorite musical numbers from the movies? They needn’t be from actual [...] Tomorrow’s the Academy Awards (ugh; that time AGAIN)…there will be a live thread Sunday; feel free to jump in and snark away (or read for updates if you can’t bear to watch). Here, as usual, we make no predictions (3Ders = not known for their love of the Current-Run Film). Rather, we look backwards: when [...] Now that VDay 2013 is in the history books, it’s confession time! What grand romantic gesture have you made/received/heard about/seen in a film (or on TV)? I’m calling this the “-fritz- Five” because…of course. One of my favorites probably belongs in a Nora Ephron movie (or a John Hughes one). It was 1993, and my [...] Eh, I’m with Ace. I can’t bear to listen. So I rely on others to do it for me: David Burge @iowahawkblog If this was a high school assembly, I’d already be sitting in detention for making arm-crook fart noises. #SOTU Or maybe not. Bring along the best reactions to the evening. Or, if you actually sat [...] Compare and contrast with your own. Judge and condemn! or, praise to the skies. Here’s my “But I know what I like!” Five. I can’t pick just one Elton John, so it’s a “depending on mood”; but the other four = pretty consistent: Prince’s Batman soundtrack; Michael Jackson & Thriller; Elton John & Greatest Hits [...] There’s been over a hundred Fives since the Five began back in the late 50s. You’ve thrown out all manner & matter of opinions, arguments, and ridiculous-yet-charming theories. But now it’s time for something completely different. Or at least, scarily similar. Starting this weekend I’ll be (occasionally) posting other people’s 5s/10s/50s, so instead of thinking [...] Not father/son, not father-figure/son-substitute, not actual brothers. Just two men who see each other through thick & thin: court cases, knife fights, unemployment, old loves, run-ins with Gary Busey…and in the process, give us chemistry to remember. 5. Riggs & Murtaugh (Lethal Weapon): It ended, many sequels later, as cheap overkill. But the first one was a [...] I saw this a couple of weeks ago but was so sick I didn’t remember to post it. Great minds think alike and Wanks sent me the link to post. TCM does everything with class and this “In Memoriam” tribute is no different. Take note Oscars — this is how you do a tribute. [...] What will you miss? What was wonderful about the year? What was dreadful? Me, I was so looking forward to sending that malignant narcissistic gasbag on permanent holiday. I’m still not over that. But I’ve had some professional success in 2012, which was reassuring. It was another year that my condition didn’t confine me to [...] |
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