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I grew up with the Home Alone films and I know that's what Heard's most famously connected with, but he's such a goddam powerhouse in stuff like Cutter's Way and The Sopranos. He had more range than the yuppie executive roles he was often cast in.

I'd be fine with college-age Peter movies, but there are so many comic book movies now that creatives are mining properties for nuances that separate their takes from every other adaptation. An adolescent high school kid superhero seems fresher and more compelling.

He should put Roman over in a match. But then Braun should kill him dead. No-sell suplex city, broken in half, stretcher job dead.

I noticed when I was watching old Smackdowns recently that they dubbed over the Disturbed song Austin was using for his entrance around 2002, but instead of just replacing it with his actual theme song they put in generic hard rock music. Weird.

The show sounds like it'll basically be Wizard and Glass, with Elba bookending episodes and/or narrating. Of course if the movie tanks like it seems like it's going to, then the show will get canned anyway. I don't understand why they thought filming a sequel to the books was the way to go. They could have hedged their bets the same just making The Gunslinger and having options on all of the actors for the sequels.

That's just one of thousands of times where the Walt Disney of professional wrestling could have have accidentally died in public on national television.

I think it implies that wrestlers are independent contractors and front office people are employees.

I downloaded Gettin' Rowdy on Napster and burned it to a school bus ride CD, so me I guess.

Isn't this the show where Cena announces that Bin Laden got mercked?

June and Mantzoukas are in it too.

Road Dogg was always going to have a ceiling because of the level of talent on top (especially by 2001), but the only things that kept him from having a better singles career were his drug problems and their preoccupation with pushing Gunn as the Michaels.

It's funny, but the one thing I take issue with is Enzo's look. He's only short by conventional wrestling standards (and still taller than plenty of former world champions.) He has a unique style that's at least culturally relevant. I also get the impression that a lot of women love Enzo. Though they do seem to be the kind of women that work full time jobs to support their boyfriend's attempts at becoming Instagram celebrities or tricking out their late-model Honda Civics.

Landau elevated everything he worked on, but it really doesn't get any better than, "Now, no one gives two fucks for Bela."

I feel bad about how hard I laughed at Sasuke because Jesus that looked like it hurt.

What can you even say? He's probably just a notch below Stan Lee as far as creators who changed pop culture forever. Rest in power, George.

They should have had the handicap match as a lead-in to a singles Mania match. The crowd popped huge for Steamboat getting his shit in almost perfectly after the sad old man stuff from the Superfly and Piper.

My first guess was that they moved the events of the other movies back so there's considerably less time between Iron Man and The Avengers, but that still messes up the time frame for everything that followed so I'm not sure where they got 8 years from.

It's a really intriguing match because at that time Flair is moving to garbage wrestling because of his limitations and Sabu is trying to prove he can make it in WWE beyond the stuff normally in his wheelhouse. Ric is pulling from the Funk playbook while Sabu is doing the things you'd expect from him but also having pretty good non-gimmick matches with guys like Angle.

Spoilers for size I knew there was a guy working under a hood as Batman 66 at its peak, but for some reason I always thought he looked a bit more...fit. I wouldn't mess with that Robin though. I'm also curious about the articles with Prince Iaukea and Mildred Burke. Might have to track this down.

I imagine it's like any professional setting where even people that agree with Cass's politics know an agitator when they see one and get that it's bad for overall morale.

This was around the time Bagwell got a clean pinfall victory over Flair in a tag match on Nitro, and it felt like a big deal and the beginning of a huge Buff push that didn't materialize.

NYC worked themselves into a shoot: NEW YORK Penal Law 240.35 (4): Being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration, loiters, remains or congregates in a public place with other persons so masked or disguised, or knowingly permits or aids persons so masked or disguised to congregate in a public place; except that such conduct is not unlawful when it occurs in connection with a masquerade party or like entertainment if, when such entertainment is held in a city which has promulgated regulations in connection with such affairs, permission is first obtained from the police or other appropriate authorities. I'm pretty sure this is still on the books, they just relaxed it for wrestling, which wasn't "entertainment" yet.

WWECW was probably my favorite show/promotion for its last couple of years. Even the early run has stuff I enjoyed, like Flair going full Onita in the Big Show match. It was definitely a link in the evolutionary chain of what's become modern NXT.

RDJ looked like he showed up, was given his sides right before they shot, and only gave them one take. It didn't ruin the movie or anything, but he's on autopilot. I liked the more realistic take of Peter, Flash, Liz, and Ned all sort of being in the same social stratosphere with bullying and pecking order angst amongst them. That's much more what high school is like. Keaton is dynamite. He's always been an actor that knows how to show a character thinking, processing information, and adjusting. That car ride...whoa. I thought outside of the Stones/Ramones most of the music was more deep cut 80s stuff so it wasn't too jarring, but needle drops are here to stay I guess.

They'll retcon it out in The Dark Tower:The Renegade Cut.