Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.