John, I'm one of your biggest fans, but for crying out loud, you're a professional writer! If you don't know what "prurience" means (or any other common English word), don't go online and brag about it! Just quietly look it up and then pretend you learned the word in high school like the rest of us.
I can accept Leonardo as J. Edgar, though it appears the film may be trying to cover too much ground. (No amount of makeup could transform this kid into the elderly Hoover of the Kennedy era.) I'm more disturbed by the news that he's signed on to play Travis McGee in Oliver Stone's version of 'The Deep Blue Goodbye." If that ever happens, I will fill the theater with my absence.
Yeah...check the bargain bins to find it on a two-fer with "Panic in the Year Zero." Prob'ly cost you five bucks.
Hey, John, we need our own "Scenes That Make You Cry" thread here on BH. The only one one on that EW list I could get behind was "Old Yeller."
This video demonstrates one of the things wrong with modern culture: they're all lip-synching to someone else's singing.
And, Michael, God love you, I can tell you're on our side politically and philosphically, but, Jee-Crawling-Hovah, can't you learn to write coherently?
I agree. My own unrequited yearning for Daphne dwarfed Niles's. They should have let me get together with her and Niles go on pining. Show might still be on.
I agree Ron could have been the definitive Doc, with a better script. Trouble is, I was already a reader of the novels and, formulaic and comical as they were, they were so much more serious and exciting than that Batmanesque travesty that I was disgusted. (When I say "Batmanesque," I'm comparing the Savage movie to the Adam West TV series.) Various producers keep making noises about a new Doc film (I suppose we should call it a reboot), but Doc's shtick has been co-opted by so many other characters since, from serious Batman to Indiana Jones, that I doubt it could go over. Today, it would seem like a stale rip-off. Hope I'm wrong.
Anyone remember "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze"? Great opening sequence, then it all went to camp city.
"The Spirit" was so rotten I couldn't sit through more than the first half hour. "Batman and Robin" did smelleth to high heaven but at least I could watch it all the way through.
Fish: (sourly) We're a regular bunch of Mounties!
God, I miss these guys.
![[Avatar]](/images/avatar26.png){kind=avatar}
Brainchild