June 15--June 21, 1998

6.15.98

A Perfect Mulder or Mulder Most Foul???

Here's all you need to know about the X-Files movie that opens this coming Friday: They had to take out a reference to Samantha.

Sure, you could go to fatboy's ain't-it-cool website and read all about it. But this simple fact speaks volumes. A scene where Mulder refers to the long-ago alien abduction of His Sister Sam wound up on the cutting-room floor because it was considered too 'inside.' In other words, people who haven't followed the TV show weren't going to get it.

So the effects may be lavish. And Gillian Anderson's perpetual mouth-pout may be spectacular. But if you know anything about The X-Files, this movie is probably going to make you feel really, really smart.

And who needs that?


Through the post-game commentary, only Bob Costas was himself; that is, he was the rambling, egomaniacal, "put-it-all-in-perspective" doofus that someone at NBC has let him become.


It seemed perfect that Millennium would air on Friday nights, when we were feeling vulnerable --- and were in no danger of having sex.


If the Nerf Crossbow is outlawed, then only outlaws will have Nerf Crossbows.


...video has freed Hollywood to make the worst kind of crap imaginable, because it's bred an international crowd of vidiots who would rent World's Grossest Turds VII if it were narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.