Damn. I was hoping you could put your weed in it.

Did Murray even have a line in Darjeeling Limited? I've forgotten.

And while I can't agree or disagree (not having seen Broken Flowers), of the films I've seen Murray in, I'd say Groundhog Day — an American classic, full stop, no "more and more like" about it — is my favorite of his roles.

She could VERY likely have died of a heart attack. There's nothing fishy about that being listed as the cause of death. WHY she had a heart attack at 32 is a whole separate matter — the cause of the cause of death, if you will.

At 32, more often than not, a heart attack happens because of one or more of the following:

1) heart condition

2) longstanding eating disorder

3) a history of cocaine use

If a doctor says she died of a heart attack and everyone who knew her knows she had an eating disorder or a coke problem or whatever, no autopsy would be needed or warranted.

You're right; it wouldn't have worked. But being John Malkovich wasn't pretending in any way, shape, or form to be a biopic.

I agree with Lisa Henson: it would be irresponsible to make a biopic that would be all made up.

And since it IS all made up, why NOT just change the characters' names? IT'S ALL MADE UP!

@decypherSMC I do that, too!

I draw a comic strip in Illustrator that way, and I'm constantly switching between the Pen tool with my mouse and using my Cintiq for CS4's Blob Brush, Eraser, etc., for more naturalistic drawing.

But yes, I think we are both a little unusual that way.

@3dpenguin The new Bamboos have twice as much sensitivity as the Graphires did. For the price, they're fantastic. Sure, I think it's half as sensitive as the Intuos still, but they're very good tablets. I own a Cintiq, too, and of course it's better, but I use the Bamboo when I need to be portable.

I don't see how you can miniaturize a Cintiq much more than it already is right now: A USB cord isn't going to be able to power a real monitor. (Try playing video on one of those USB monitors sometimes; they don't cut it as a full-fledged monitor, which Cintiqs need to be.) And even the best possible battery life on a wireless Cintiq would be a huge impediment for anybody who needs to do real, extensive work with one of them.

Lightpeak might be able to get the Cintiq down to one cable (versus three — power, DVI, and USB — into a under-the-table box and then a single cable into the tablet itself), but until then, I think Wacom's doing them about as well as they can be.

I love my Bamboo Pen & Touch. I had never noticed the "slippery" problem, but I'll have to pay more attention next time I use it, I guess.

My only complaints are:

1) the lack of three- and four-finger gestures. Exact 1:1 parity with the Apple trackpad would be ideal. Maybe this can be addressed with an update, but I doubt it. It's not a big problem, though.

2) you can't set application-specific controls for things like the Rotate gesture and whatnot. This could be addressed with a software update, of course.

Why do you doubt the man? He's brilliant with visuals.

Road to Perdition — probably the closest of anything Mendes has done to a Western — was a visually spectacular period piece, and pretty gritty. The script wasn't great, and I felt like the music overpowered the action on-screen so much that it got annoying, but it LOOKED great.

If he has a good script (and Joe Penhall's script for The Road was fantastic, at least judging from the movie) then I think Mendes will do just fine.

Gotcha. Yeah, I haven't seen Last Station. I just know her from, like, The Queen or State of Play this year, and was like "really?"

It's certainly a valid point. Subtle, quieter performances rarely get the credit they deserve — and even when one does get attention, it tends to be because of a Big Centerpiece Scene.

If it weren't for Richard Jenkins' big explosion in The Visitor, for instance, I don't think there's any way he'd have been considered, yet it was the quiet, sustained performance that made it so good.