Richard Kimball

How do you do, Missus Wi-ley?

Agreed, Bale held serve, and that's no small accomplishment when the other actors were Ledger, Caine, Freeman and Oldman. Part of it is that the Batman movies became "Batman Presents the Villian" and good or bad, the villains dominate the movies, with Batman being almost a passive character. Even in the terrible ones, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Uma Thurman, and Arnold were the main characters. They need an unknown who's got some size, acting ability, and is in the right age range. There aren't that many action actors under fifty, now, that aren't tied to a super hero already.

No, he wasn't.

Man in a Hurry is great. What was the one with the two old ladies that are bootleggers and they keep turning in other bootleggers to get rid of the competition?

The Rock. He's already in everything, anyway.

Smith could get some serious negative blowback from this. It was a defining role for Williams, and since he died, he's become almost like a patron saint of Hollywood. Smith also burned a lot of bridges with fans when he tried to turn his no talent or charisma son into a star. There's also the fact that there's been some built up negativity towards Disney for screwing up Star Wars, and recycling old movies into live action/CGI rather than coming up with anything new. Jim Carrey is way too crazy now for anyone to invest big bucks into a movie that depends upon him not shitting the bed. There's still the problem that Aladdin is unique, in that Robin Williams was a famous actor who basically played himself as an animated character. In all the other cartoon to CGI movies, nobody knew who did the voice animations for Belle or the Beast, so replacing the voice actors didn't bother anyone. This one's going to be more like having a different actor play Wolverine or Iron Man. Even if Smith does a great job, Williams is still the standard.

No, although Gannon wore an apron in that episode. It was one where Friday took a night class and when the rest of the class found out he was a cop, they voted to kick him out.

A lot of my generation of firefighters got into it because they watched Emergency! growing up. Dragnet trivia: Jack Webb and Harry Morgan always wore the same clothes (Webb the gray jacket and black slacks and Morgan the gray suit) cause they reused transition scenes all the time, like getting up and walking from the desk, walking to the car, and walking into buildings. There was only one episode where Webb wore something different, a red sweater.

Seat over there. She was thirteen when they started filming the movie, so either thirteen or fourteen.

Malcolm was more of a guest star. Gomer was in early seasons, but got spun off into a series, and replaced by Goober. Jack Dodson was actually pretty good in an early episode as a different character. He played an insurance salesman that got disappointed when he found out Andy was making a claim instead of buying a new policy. They started with strong supporting characters, but every character they replaced was replaced with a weaker character, sometimes terribad. Warren trying to replace Barney was the most obvious. Still can't believe Andy had the hots for Helen Crump over Ellie. Personally, though, I would have gone for Floyd's manicurist (Barbara Eden.)

First five years. Every original character was classic. After that, it was something else.

And my dad said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."

Good stuff. I'm pretty sure a psychiatrist wouldn't have helped me. A lot of it is just the dynamic of the meeting, where the shrink takes on the role of "messiah" where whether he tries to or not, he presents as the all knowing person who's there to solve my problems. It's easier to open up and be honest at an AA meeting. Psychiatrist meeting: "Yeah, I got drunk and pissed on a police car." Psychiatrist: "You what?" AA meeting: "Yeah, I got drunk and pissed on a police car." Someone else: "Been there. Were you inside or outside the car when you did it?"

Best explanation I ever heard was from a guy at the Bouldin group, hell, had to be 35 years ago. He said early in his drinking career, he had that one drunk where everything seemed perfect. He felt great. He felt alive. And he spent the rest of his drinking career trying to recapture that feeling. I don't really buy the childhood trauma thing. I drank because I liked getting drunk. I liked the feeling of euphoria. Never understood how someone could leave half a beer. It was never a problem for me to go a week or a month without a drink. When I started drinking, though, I didn't stop until I was stinking drunk. For a while I tried to convince myself I could have a few and stop when I got the right level of buzz, but nah. It's not a problem for me not to drink, so I'm more fortunate than many. If I ever say, "oh, I'll have one glass of wine," though, yeah, empty bottle and I wake up a half hour late for work.

Caine Mutiny was great, except for the Willie Keith romance part. Problem was that Robert Francis and May Winn weren't talented enough to be on the screen with Bogart, Van Johnson, E. G. Marshall, and Fred MacMurray. Bogart playing a Captain descending into madness, and MacMurray playing a weasel who could come off as reasonable while spreading poison were great. Trivia note: Van Johnson got the scar on his forehead in a car accident. He covered it with makeup for most movies, but thought Steve Maryk should have a scar. if you haven't read the book...

The Harry Potter series is loved by all ages, ten through pedophile. She was at her most popular when she had the teen jailbait thing going on. There are also a lot of kids who grew up watching her, and she was their first cinema crush. I can understand the kids growing up who thought she was super hot. The older guys, not so much. When I was about ten I had mad love for Sandra Dee. I would have gotten her, too, if it wasn't for that bastard, Moondoggie.

Tommy's selling used cars, Nancy's fixing hair

Dittos to what Scraps said about already being posted, but haven't seen these: Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin for a train, feelin near as faded as my jeans Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone, everything that I've got is just what I've got on All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey I knew a man, Bojangles and he'd dance for you Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world

I don't recall that. I recall LA not giving a frog's fat ass about having the NFL come back. The NFL was batshit crazy to get a team back in LA, cause (1) they didn't want major cities to figure out they didn't need a team to be considered a major city, and (2) there are a lot of televisions in LA. The reason the Houston Texans exist is because when the NFL put out a call for proposals back in the late 90s, they thought it would be a slam dunk for LA, but they couldn't find anyone in LA that cared enough to put together a decent bid.

Wrestlemania!

I was never an NFL fan. I was a Cowboys fan. Jerry cured me of that, and Roger Goodell finished it off.

Does anyone think Alabama would get a bowl ban for this kind of infraction?