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- TV Tropes is simultaneously useful and incredibly frustrating to read.about 13 hours ago from web
- Are crappy amendments like the Hyde and Stupak amendments more likely to pass when Democrats are in power, or does it just seem that way?about 14 hours ago from web
- I'd forgotten that Hungarian Phrasebook, Communist Quiz and Spam are all part of the same Python episode. One of the better eps, for sure.about 17 hours ago from web
- I've said this before but I really feel sorry for the PC in the Mac-vs-PC ads. He's like the Trix Rabbit: I'd like to see him win just once.about 17 hours ago from web
- Man, this run of SOUTH PARK has not been very good. And I'm pretty indulgent of the show, generally.about 17 hours ago from web
- It's incredible how many comic books circa 1966 have an ad for a personally-autographed David McCallum life-sized pinup. He was real popularabout 20 hours ago from web
- @ Didn't mean to cause anxiety. That's a decade ago and my application stank. You're good at academic-style (but accessible) writing.about 20 hours ago from web in reply to Memles
- @ @ The lack of a robot sidekick was unquestionably why I got turned down for PHd work. They said otherwise, but they were lying.about 20 hours ago from web in reply to Memles
- With all the comic book movies, isn't it time to make movies from the ads? The weakling who goes to Charles Atlas would make a great movie.6:45 PM Nov 6th from web
- When Nick Counter's death was announced I immediately clicked over to see if Nikki Finke said anything yet. That's sad.6:42 PM Nov 6th from web
- Of course Hitchcock actually had a derisive name for people who try to point out plot holes in a movie; he called them "The Plausibles."6:40 PM Nov 6th from web
- But Carroll's character makes up for it by dismissing the villains' plot in two lines ("Importer/exporter of government secrets").6:37 PM Nov 6th from web
- The one thing I can't justify in NORTH BY NORTHWEST is that scene where Leo G. Carroll tells his staff what they already know. I mean, geez.6:36 PM Nov 6th from web
- And none of that actually matters, but they'd explain it anyway and the film would be 180 minutes.6:32 PM Nov 6th from web
- If they made NORTH BY NORTHWEST today they'd have to explain the George Kaplan ruse, why the police didn't know who the U.N. guy was, etc.6:32 PM Nov 6th from web
- Wonder how NORTH BY NORTHWEST plays in today's plot-hole-obsessed culture. Hitchcock doesn't care whether any of this is plausible.6:31 PM Nov 6th from web
- Anyone made a list of all the TV shows that've used the music-library song "Such a Good Night?" 6:13 PM Nov 6th from web
- Little-known Chuck Jones short: "Quentin Quail," a Baby Snooks take-off (Writer Tedd Pierce voices the daddy). 2:51 PM Nov 6th from web
- Latest uncut WKRP episode (with commentary): "Hold-Up" 2:31 PM Nov 6th from web
- Joker was 4th-best villain in '60s Batman TV; Riddler, Catwoman & Penguin all have influenced subsequent versions, Joker not so much.8:54 AM Nov 5th from web
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- Name Jaime Weinman
- Location Toronto
- Web http://www2.macle...
- Bio Entertainment writer for Maclean's, blogger, YouTube addict
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