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  • James Cromwell

    I'm pretty sure he was talking about the FOOTLOOSE remake (which I haven't seen) and implying its idea of a completely post-racial, colorblind small-town community is naive at best, but that there's no way a mainstream feel-good ...

    Feb. 8, 2012 - 1:29 PM

  • #26: Phantom Menace Beats Jedi

    BTW, I mention in the podcast that the review will be up the same day as this podcast, but the podcast went up at midnight and the review will be up at noon.

    Feb. 8, 2012 - 8:12 AM

  • #25: He Had Deliverance In His Eyes

    I'm adding a link to that Neil Gaiman interview to the post, by the way, in case anyone wants his words in context.

    Jan. 25, 2012 - 1:44 PM

  • #25: He Had Deliverance In His Eyes

    Also, there are many elil, but rabbits are clever and breed fast.Thanks for the recommendation.

    Jan. 25, 2012 - 1:43 PM

  • My Week With Marilyn

    Y'know, I considered TRUE GRIT when the Coen brothers version came out, but reading the book, I didn't find the differences that significant, or interesting as a topic. The differences between the two film versions wound up being ...

    Jan. 20, 2012 - 8:36 AM

  • The League's "Netflix for neckties" is a reality

    You do realize you have to actually wear all five ties at once, or they revoke your membership, right?

    Jan. 16, 2012 - 5:02 PM

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Tasha Robinson (associate editor, national, @tasharobinson) has this theory that all born entertainment writers start out doing scutwork in a related field: Her first job was in a library, and she's noticed that most A.V. Club critics started out clerking in music stores, book shops, and video-rental places. She maintains her theory by pointing to them and studiously ignoring any contradictory data. She grew up in Maryland, where she started writing bad genre fiction at age 7 or so, and she eventually went to the University of Iowa for the Writer's Workshop program, which not only broke her of writing genre fiction, but also turned her off fiction writing in general. Since then, she's been a critic, copyeditor, editor, and designer for various publications. She got a double BA at Iowa (film and journalism) in 1991, started writing for The A.V. Club in 1998, became a full-time writer-editor in 2000, and hasn't looked back since. Though she sometimes still wishes she worked in a library.