Coen Brothers
 

For me the wost Coen movie is O Brother. Strangely, this seems to be the COen film loved by non Coen fans and not loved by Coen fans. Maybe I missed something here, but I did not dig it. Perhals Slave, who missed his calling as a professor of film can enlighten me? Or maybe he thought it was not so good as well since he is a fan.

No more buffy
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by fufu

I thought that given the season, it was a very well done episode. Any television show that ends with a rejection of the patriarchical paradigm and can make me laugh and cry at the same time does a good job.

I have lots of thoughts on the episode, but they're posted elsewhere.

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Lots of theories. The most prelavent out there right now is that the whole Sanshu prophecy about the vamprie with a soul earning redemption and becoming human applies to Spike, not Angel. Certainly all of the relevant points point to Spike, especially the playing a major role in the Apocolypse and their not being sure which side he'd be on.

Also, someone mentioned that Spike's dream from last night "drowning in shoes" could be a reference to LA. In the very first episode of the series, Cordelia said something about being envious of Buffy for living in LA and being so close to that many shoes. Could be that he comes back to take on the role that Cordelia abandoned, since presumably he has it good with the Powers that Be these days.

He may not be a vampire with a soul. He may be like Lilah. Maybe he had a contract with W&H back in the day, though he strikes me as a "doesn't play well with others" type.

The Practice
 

Everyone except for Jimmy - who is the only guy not on the list of people leaving the show. So who's left in the office? Jimmy and Eugene? And who is Chyler Leigh? Is she the one who went to Harvard or is she the one who was on "The Girls Club?"

Coen Brothers
 

What I like about Coen Bros. movies is that, at their best, each of them work as a film and as an intellectual exercise.

O Brother certainly fit within that tradition in ways Fargo did not.

The Practice
 

Chyler was in Girls Club, but also was Lindsey's assistant in her other office. She had some weird psychosis, but then won a summary judgment ruling and quickly obtained a big cash settlement.

Jimmy, Eugene, Cammryn Mannheim. And the blonde Harvard girl.

The coup de grace was switching to monday. It will be on Sunday again this Fall. Kelley's problem is that it's a character-driven show, unlike law and order, so switching the players a lot won't really help things.

But who cares? Alias, and Jennifer Garner, is still smokin'

AI finale and Question probably only Less can answer
 

First, I think yoiu are confusing Ruben fwith Clay. Clay vibrates like a Magic Wand on high and Ruben is as smooth as a Rabbit with low batteries. Who did you vote for? WHo did NFH vote for that em couldnt get through?

Question: have the bookmakers posted odds for this contest? If so, what are they? If Ruben wins, I will be shocked and awed.

AI finale and Question probably only Less can answer
 

Here I am, continuing to answer questions you pose for other people. Last night, I saw an infotainment show that showed the line as:

Ruben: 4/5
Clay: Even

Outdated Humor
 

1) They win the cases they should lose, and lose the cases they should win. But this is television. Do you want a plea bargain in 98% of the cases, 90% of which are drug-related?

2) Everyone's criminal client is innocent. Good god. How often does a defendant fess up, even to his lawyer?

3) Sure it sucks, but more than biglaw? Screaming isn't unique to O'Donnell & Young. Besides, Jimmy the Grunt isn't an equity partners. They cut him out (well, didn't cut him in) in some episode, no? And, the mouthy secretary is all too true to life. Hey, not every firm can be like girls club, with hot, perky lawbabes running around everywhere. Firms like that are cancelled, er, go out of business, pretty quickly.

The real question is how they make money. 80% of their cases are appointed somehow, which doesn't pay big bucks. They never seem to have a big payout, and they hardly have steady clients (other than the repeat murderers, including Bobby's wife).

Outdated Humor
 

No one could really work there. 2 or 3 times they got guys off who then admitted they were guilty and were planning on killing more. a few times they got guys off who then came to kill one of them. Eugene lost visitation with his son because of working there. and you're right they can't make any $$ for it. if one of my clients showed up with a shotgun to kill me after a SUCESSFUL outcome, I'm looking for a career change.

Coen Brothers
 

FWIW, I'm a Coen fan, and liked O Brother a great deal. For me, part of it had to do with the music, but as e/o said, I think it was a pretty good intellectual exercise as well.

Actor Scott Bairstow charged with child rape
 

EVERETT — Scott Hamilton Bairstow, a television and movie actor who formerly lived in Mukilteo, has been charged with having sex in 1998 with a then-12-year-old relative of his wife. Bairstow, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has appeared in nine feature films, including “Tuck Everlasting” and “New Best Friend.” His television roles included appearances in “Touched by an Angel,” “Party of Five,” “Wolf Lake” and “Lonesome Dove: The Series.”

Child rape

Bairstow-mers; gangbusters, whatever
 

ewww. That almost as disgusting as Penske's slow-loading, self-outing web page or Slave's dating tips

Top Cult Movies
 

Oh, I have so corrupted you.

Hidden joke? You mean that you could consider 2/3 of those autobiographical?
Again, I have so corrupted you. Argento may be too "Euro-arthouse" to count as cult, though. Can you have a movie mainly about people's eyeballs popping out and still be considered "arthouse"?

I loved those! I would also like to add "Killer Klownz from Outer Space." That was a super movie. And "Anguish" - very fun. (Wait, that may just be continuing the eyeball thought from above.)

Outdated Humor
 

Screaming may go on once in a while b/w partner/associate, but it doesn't go on b/w partners and it doesn't happen every week like it does on that show. I don't watch it that much, but I can't think of one episode that didn't involve a screaming match. Eugene is the worst culprit, but Manheim is a big bitch too. O'Donnell is running a distant third, but he is the biggest asshole b/c he is the main partner and lets it go on.

If I remember, they said they would consider him for partner after a year (even though he just got there and had no experience) and Bobby offered the secretary an equity share too even though he admitted it was an ethical violation to share fees with a non-attorney*

Yeah. The partnership issue came up when they were, supposedly, making money hand-over-fist. Where did these paying clients go? And if they are so good that everyone knows who they are, why can't they get more paying clients?


*This is before she announced, in soap opera fashion, that she secretly WAS an attorney and had kept her law schooling and bar exam completely hidden from them. No effort was ever made to explain how she took the bar without doing a background check that would involve contacting her present employer. I keep waiting for the episode where she announces that she is Bobby and Lindsay's daughter and see how they would explain that she was born before they met.

AI finale and Question probably only Less can answer
 

Um, no. I have noticed from the start that Ruben has pitch problems, and that when he's off it's always sharp. It wasn't until last night that I realized that it's only on his vibrato that he is sharp. Now that I have identified his problem, I can't listen to him anymore. Clay overuses his vibrato, but his pitch is flawless, whether it's on or off.

I guess I would like Ruben better if I were a little more tone-deaf. Unfortunately for me, I have perfect pitch (well, almost--I have to think for a few seconds before singing a given note; my violin teacher automatically knew what notes her cats were meowing). I don't even like it when the performers sing in a different key from the popular version, let alone off key. YMMV.