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Stage Right!

Can’t speak for Willingham, but Long is digging the showtunes. It’s not Cop Rock, true, but….

Bladt–

You shoulda been here earlier. Me and Willingham got our love of showtunes out in front of the room.

Sam Karnick

is right, how ’bout a category for “Entertainment” and then another for “Eat Yer Peas”???

Meghan…

You’re right about Pineapple Express. /// All I wanna do is BANG BANG BANG and KA-CHING! and take your money… ///

Seth Rogen Speaks the Truth

Yeah! Why aren’t there awards for popular, funny movies like Step Brothers? Lot harder to make a truly funny comedy than to make a weepy drama. Seth Rogen has created more quality entertainment in his young life so far than

What I Want to Say

My lesson learned about live blogging: There’s the stuff you WANT to say… and the stuff you think you better not say….

Willingham!

You liked Cop Rock, too? I thought I was the only one. I have an ally….

Eat Yer Peas, Drink Yer Milk

Surely many gay Americans have seen Gus Van Sant’s Milk through tears of joy because it marks a long-hoped-for arrival. For the first time in mainstream entertainment (at least, this is the picture that got all the fanfare), the history

Forgettable 'Friday the 13th'

The remake of Friday the 13th is notable only for its title; we have seen this stuff literally hundreds of times before, sometimes done better (whatever that means to you in this context) and sometimes done worse. This new picture

'Taken' Is Justice–And It's About Time

There is little justice in this world. Probably because the bad guys have so many apologists. Taken, on the other hand, is an all-out revenge fantasy in which — finally — the Go-Slow Gang and their Root Causes Orchestra are

Over the Couch at the Holiday Inn

Eh. Most movies are designed (that’s the best word for it, I believe) to provide a memorable experience to the audience, and characters end up being minor tools, among others, to do it. A few movies are the reverse of

Too Much Certainty To "Doubt"

“Doubt” is a little too subtle, believe it or not. We don’t tend to think of movies as subtle–so many things blowing up, so many emotions played for the back of the house–but frequently, a significant fact is provided to

"It takes backbone to live the life you want."

When I was 31, I realized that I shouldn’t be a systems analyst. I hadn’t set out to be that and it had become (quite literally) painfully clear that I could not be happy in that life. I had a