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@STEVEFINNERTY Wish that were true (if I understand you correctly), but I would argue that a lot more people listen to the media and rock critics than you think.

@giggleblaggle Well said (also great points in this thread by Khalilullah and TylerSDodson).

@WoodyAllenManiac I agree. For me, it has to do with the fact that Lemmon arguably had separable comedic and dramatic personae. His comedic persona was not a parody of his dramatic persona, and his dramatic persona was not a forced rejection of his comedic persona. If DeNiro (to take one examp...

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I love the description underneath: "by a group of far left activists". They were gay rights activists according to one report. Don't try to color the event before people have seen the footage. If anything is criminal, its Romney's policy on gay marriage. And I love how he singled out the guy...

@fisteberg "TV can drive mad and make you lose your mind." An ironic comment on television by a television show...

Well, the man is correct. Liberty is at stake in this election. Specifically, if Santorum gets elected, Americans will no longer have liberty.

I will commence grad studies in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers in 11 days! I can't wait!!!

Great list, and great editing! However, I would argue (as many would) that "The Third Man" is a British film, not an American one.

4:23 - 5:09 Brilliant. The question asked of Cotten at the conclusion of this sequence is the same question the audience would ask, and he turns to the audience and answers them.

Watching this just gives me an even greater admiration for Martin Scorsese, right down to the PBR ad!

Fuck this megalomaniac Alex Jones. Don't you people realize that he's in it for a buck just like everyone else? He wants you to buy his books: plain and simple. My girlfriend has wasted hundreds of dollars on emergency food rations because she listened to this fascist asshole. The way thing...

@SatchmoSings You took the words right out of my mouth. That's an immediate disappointment, and almost as laughable as the use of Scott Joplin's music in "The Sting".

@dudefromtherock It wasn't all peaches and cream. I was born in 1978 (hence the youtube tag), and grew up during the 80s. You had He-Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, G.I. Joe, Reagan: there was a certain way a young boy should behave, and if he didn't fit the mold, he was ostracized. It was a very...

I live near a pretty rough neighborhood. If I'm walking down the street late at night and I see a cop riding around, I feel more relaxed than if there were no cops around. Cops are supposed to protect and serve, and if they do that, I have no problem with them. But I do have a problem with pol...

On a whim I figured I'd look this up on YouTube, not expecting someone else out there to have taste. Thanks for proving me wrong. THIS IS WHAT WAS GREAT ABOUT JAZZ IN THE '70s!!!!!!!!!!

@Beck19781 Delete "topical"; I meant to say "observational"

@Beck19781 I should say: as Maher said regarding Lenny Bruce, I never found Pryor to be funny.

@candelise Ok, expand: the crux of Siskel's review was that Casino was in fact a sub-par film as far as Scorsese's output was concerned, and that to praise the film amounted to caving to Scorsese's reputation rather than the film's merits. He felt the film was sloppy - as do I - that it essenti...

@BetterTasteThanU Zappa was a serious musician who happened to come up in a certain era. He had enough of a sense of humor (and PARTICULARLY A SENSE OF THE ABUSRD) to point out the stupidity of that era; however, Zappa was the type of person who would have pointed that out REGARDLESS OF THE ERA....

@lpsling Exactly. When all is said and done, when the future generations open up the books and examine this music, Konitz will go down as one of the few "pure" improvisers in the history of the jazz. In other words, he doesn't work from licks or stock phrases. It takes a lot of courage to get ...

It is amazing and fascinating that in 10 years (from 1969 to 1979) America went from Woodstock to something like this.

1:53 - 2:54 Murray Moston. An important name, folks. Don't recognize him? How 'bout as "Oscar" in "Mean Streets"? Or "the timekeeper" in "Taxi Driver" ("I'm timing ya', too.") Or the toll collector in "After Hours" ("I could get drunk, go to a party....who knows?"). Awesome actor.

The writer Fran Lebowitz said in the outtakes of Ric Burns' NYC doc regarding New York in the 70s that "the people who (lived) there were the people who deserved to be there." The point that I think she was trying to make was that whereas NYC once appealed to residents, now it is primarily a tou...

The lesson learned is not specifically that the answer to life or the problems of society (be they racism, poverty, or fascism) can be found in Islam or in religion in general. I think the lesson is the exact opposite: that answer is not in any group, but in yourself.