Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether were talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decades non-teen culture has no staying power at all. – Rob Sheffield
American Horror is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. – Rob Sheffield
Most of an award-show hosts job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether its the Oscars or the Hallmark Channels Hero Dog Awards. – Rob Sheffield
Its kind of amazing how popular Greys Anatomy is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles? – Rob Sheffield
The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum