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One of the things I love most about having this website is that it gives me an excuse to celebrate the people who have brought me an enormous amount of joy over the years. Sure, I use this space to review new movies, talk about television, recommend books, rant about pop culture, and occasionally climb up on one of my many soapboxes But sometimes it's just nice to say, "Hey, here's somebody I absolutely love," and spend a little time talking about why. Usually there's somethi

Mike White is one of the most fascinating, unique, and uncompromising voices working in film and television today. As a writer, director, and actor, he has carved out a space in the entertainment world that is deeply personal, often deeply uncomfortable, and always brimming with intelligence, insight, and humanity. I am an unapologetically huge Mike White fan. Always have been. Always will be. From the very first time I saw him in Chuck & Buck , that wild and deeply unsettli

I have been an SNL fan since the first episode with George Carlin in October 1975 when I was ten years old, and I haven't missed an episode since. As an expert and historian for Saturday Night Live , who graduated from Second City and prides himself on being an expert on Saturday Night Live , let me say that I absolutely loved this special. And it wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. The Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special was a three-and-a-half-hour