"Cornball brother."

There's a current controversy about some ESPN commentator musing over whether RG3 is a "cornball brother." "My question,...

What if men sang about longing for life in the larger world the way the Little Mermaid did?

Via Metafilter , where I think people are experiencing this as really sweet, because these are — presumably — fathers and the fathers are wa...

"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."

This amused me. Cowboy style. I ran across it because I was looking for the text to the famous Mark Antony speech, which I'd been forc...

The difference between Occupy Wall Street and the Wisconsin protests.

Andy Kroll at Mother Jones identifies 3 main differences 1. Different organizers: In Wisconsin, "the day after Republicans reclaimed th...

McCain, too, is a memoirist.

We keep talking about "Dreams From My Father." What about "Faith of My Fathers"? His 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,”...

"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character."

"It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn." Dead at 28. Heath Ledger. IN THE COMMENTS:...

What passage in Revelation did Marlon Brando circle?

This one: "The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, ...

"#Through the nose, #High voice, #Nose broken early in youth to account for difficulty."

Brando's notes on the "Godfather" script -- along with other personal effects up for auction -- pictured here . And here '...

Those 100 AFI quotes.

Okay, I'm game . I'll TiVo-blog, numbering each entry. Watch for continuous updates. Ah, it's good to be simulblogging again! 1....

"A Streetcar Named Desire."

We watched "A Streetcar Named Desire" last night. We had been close to watching it the other day, and now, with Brando's death...

Truman Capote on Brando.

The NYT Brando obit calls attention to "a crushing profile by Truman Capote in The New Yorker in 1957." The New Yorker has the Cap...

Evaluating Marlon Brando.

The NYT runs an above-the-fold obituary for Marlon Brando. (You'll have to look at the paper copy to see this, but here 's the obit....

The great Marlon Brando.

The brilliant Marlon Brando has died . He died on Thursday--I had a dream about him in the early a.m. hours of that day. We were looking at ...

New Interpretation of Soprano's Dream.

Now I've rewatched the episode of The Sopranos I wrote about yesterday, and I have also been reminded that they are still doing another...

So I watched the first of the Ed Sullivan Shows with the Beatles , intriguingly intact, including commercials. How strangely sedate the comm...