Quibbles & Bits

. . . Last week the Hollywood Reporter ran a laudatory “special” spread on Movietime (headline: “A Basic Cable Service Whose Time Has Come”). Of course, Movietime programs the Reporter’s weekly show.

. . . Every now and then we spot a headline of unusual grace, like this one in In These Times with Pat Aufderheide’s review of “Milagro Beanfield War”:

Redford’s ‘Milagro’ doesn’t

add up to a hill of beans

in this crazy world