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"West Side Story certainly grew on me, Dan! But I know musicals of its type are tough to get into for some people, so I try not to hold it against people who don't like it. :) Your list is pretty great, too! Of course, all of Ebert's Great movies are pretty, well, great. Heh. I think it's really interesting that I think your Ebert-filtered list is great, and the Flickchart global Ebert-filtered list is great, but there are only a few titles in common between the three." - Jandy

I love that you just said "stupidhead". - Headless Gnad Kicker

It was the most apt thing to call him. - Jandy

Ahhh Jandy I'm sorry. They are at all of the metro train stops though not always in the same place in them. Added bonus, they so rarely check for them half the people don't have them. - SteVe C

Yeah, the website said they were at "certain train stops" but didn't say which ones, so I didn't want to risk being at one that didn't have one. I checked at lunch and sure enough, there they were, right in the kiosk. So I still got to pop my LA public transit cherry, just only in the afternoon. Anyway, I have it now, so I'm all set for the future! - Jandy

And as far as not having one - my luck is too bad for that, even if I weren't honest. I did that in Rome accidentally (the previous day everything was free because of some festival, and we didn't know the next day wasn't) and got a 200 Euro fine. - Jandy

And... that's not it. :p - Jandy

That's the one I see. :) - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Weirdly, you should be yelling at whomever holds the content rights - they're the ones determining that. I find it annoying, but they're the ones holding the cards. - Jennifer Dittrich

From what I've understood, their own parent company is undermining the tiny bit of leverage they have. Ultimately, the studios make more money from per-episode customers, so they'd rather go with that model if they can. Making services like this frustrating is something they hope to accomplish, not understanding that it will drive few people to that model. - Jennifer Dittrich

Oh dear, she is precious! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

Thanks. :) She is very photogenic! - Jandy

"Oh, I'm totally ripping off your Kids Talk Film video idea when she's old enough. :p" - Jandy

"Emily Blunt is pretty great. I like her in pretty much everything. Alison Brie doesn't hurt, either. :)" - Jandy

I've done that by shaking out a garbage bag :( - Headless Gnad Kicker

So much for multitasking... - Jandy

"Congratulations! I'd like to reassure you that it's easier for the father, but Jon hasn't been watching hardly any movies, either. He did go see Iron Man 3 with some friends. But we have been keeping up with a few TV shows, so there is some time, it just depends on how you use it. But it really is worth it. The movies will still be there when our babies are old enough to enjoy them with us, right? :)" - Jandy

She's so adorable! - Georgia

Just beautiful. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

I think they do that sometimes just to get attention. Waif used it like a remote control. - MoTO #TeamMonique

There's always the "velcro solution." (Hey, it's far referable to duct tape!) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

That's pretty much what post-converted movies are (though the particle effects are probably true 3D), but I will always defend something like Coraline, which was just awesome in 3D. Shot stereoscopically, and was even designed with 3D in mind. - Andrew C (✓)

Avatar was filmed in 3D but Cameron made the mystifying decision to shoot shallow DOF, which I will never understand. Coraline was amazing. The sense of space was so good, and Selick used a weird trick to make the real world feel weirder and more uncomfortable than the Other world: sets in the former were built to use forced perspective. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009... ) ... I'll admit that other real 3D movies mostly haven't lived up to Coraline's standards though. - Andrew C (✓)

Really? Why can't it support Hangouts? Although, yeah, Leopard is 3 major OS releases older than the current version. - Victor Ganata

Snow Leopard is where it's @! - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I don't know, Victor. It actually played the audio fine, so it worked for what we needed. I still need to see if Jon's Snow Leopard upgrade will work on my computer. - Jandy from iPhone

We have peculiar town names. Philadelphia would be better than some but I agree. - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

There's even a part where the soldiers try to figure out how she got the name - "So you were born in Philadelphia?" "No, I was named after my mother." "Oh, she was born in Philadelphia?" "No, she was named after her grandmother, the first of the Philadelphias in our family." "Oh, so SHE was born in Philadelphia?" "No." And then the conversation ended. LOL. - Jandy

Just ask a Kardashian - SteVe C

Tarsem is a great example, Jennifer. I was thinking of Baz Luhrmann when writing this. Someone on Twitter suggested Sofia Coppola (though I think she has substance as well). - Jandy

"Even beyond being a slog/boring to read through, specificity actually makes it much easier for the art director/set decorator to do their jobs. I've never done that, per se, but in building websites for people, it's much easier when they give you some restrictions than when they just go "do whatever you want." Too much freedom stifles creativity. Plus, in describing Olaf's apartment the way you did above, you've used the setting to help build the character. We haven't even met Olaf yet, but I have an idea of what kind of person would live in an apartment like that - even if designing sets isn't your job, defining characters is, and his apartment helps define him. The character who lives in the apartment you described as your own pre-marriage apartment is a very different person than Olaf. Adding those two things together, if you aren't specific about things like this, the art director has to become a literary detective and figure out what kind of apartment Olaf would live in. Or,..." - Jandy

"One of the things from lit crit classes that has stuck with me the most is that even though you'd assume that a generic character would read more universally, allowing people to project themselves onto the character or whatnot, it's actually not true. Specific characters with specific personality traits in specific situations are much more universally relatable, even if the reader doesn't share those personality traits or situations. It's kind of paradoxical, but you're totally right. And this is obviously more important for writers to learn than readers/critics. All we can do is go "this is why is doesn't work." You can make it work in the first place. :)" - Jandy

Correct, the BBC does not have commercials -- instead, residents pay a license. The BBC Agreement (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrus...) says, "The BBC may use sums paid to it [...] to fund any activities properly carried on by the BBC except [...] any which are carried on for the purposes of a television, radio or online service which is wholly or partly funded by advertisements, subscription, sponsorship, payper-view system or any other alternative" - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Betsy, indeed, that was he way the entire concept was sold. Some broadcasts now are actually strings of commercials interrupted only by some of the program. - Stephan Planken from iPhone

I think of her more as a hero on GoT, or at the least, a better player than most ;) - Jennifer Dittrich

^ - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Yeah, but I couldn't qualify further in 140 characters. She's not on the level in GoT, though that's probably not a bad thing when playing against the Lannisters. - Jandy from iPhone

Agreed - SteVe C

she's the only one i like on the show as well. watching some of the early episodes before taniya and lynn are just cringe worthy - Sir Shuping is just sir

What kind of contestants are those??? - SteVe C

Old ones. :( - Jandy from iPhone

how is it? - Sir Shuping is just sir

I'm liking it a lot. - Jandy from iPhone

die hard - SteVe C

I'm looking forward to DIE HARD 6: SIMBA DIES HARDER. - Steven Perez

It was really interesting to see that film in that context. I didn't see it until the mid-70s. While I was alive for MLK's assassination (and RFK's and other unrest of the time), I was way too young to be aware of it or even of the reactions of adults around me. Sometimes I have to remind myself that things were pretty wild in that period. - Spidra Webster

I actually haven't seen this episode (I'm a season or so behind), but I liked this tweet. :) - Jandy from iPhone

I still remember waking up to news of RFK's assassination and wondering if it was a replay of JFK's, one of my most vivid memories of that summer. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

Really? That's happening. Hmm. - SteVe C

Yeah. And Meryl Streep is the witch, which is...okay, I guess. But I think she's too old. Bernadette Peters is only a year older than Streep; if they're going that old, why not just cast Peters? (I know, Streep is a bigger name to movie audiences, blah blah blah. Still.) - Jandy from iPhone

And don't forget Carl Stalling! - John Dupuis

I think of the new Looney Toons as more of a sequel to Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2th Century rather than as a direct successor to the original Looney Tunes. As much as I watched the old shows as a kid, I've probably watched these newer shows far more, and that's probably why I don't find it as jarring. - Victor Ganata

But but... mobile.. everything is mobile.. no one uses browsers anymore.... - Me

True, and I do 90% of my stuff on mobile, but any time you have to ask someone to install a particular app to get to content (especially content that is FROM the web in the first place), it's a barrier of entry. If people happen to be on their computer when I share the link to my curated Flipboard magazines, how many are likely to stop what they're doing, go get their phone or tablet, download the app, and start reading it? 0%. - Jandy

"I had to stop reading when I got to Nashville and saw how low you had it ranked. That went straight into my Top 100 on a first watch, which is really unusual, and hasn't budged. One of my favorites from the New Hollywood marathon I did a few years ago." - Jandy

change the channel quick! - Sir Shuping is just sir

Nah, we finished it out. I was only half paying attention, though. Just enough to notice how fake everything looked. - Jandy from iPhone

Too include the reference to the Asmov story ;) - Michael W. May from Android