The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.