The Star Wars porn is, in fact, good. Better than Pink Five in some ways, to be honest. Each two-DVD set comes with a version of the movie with the sex removed, perfect for showing in public. However, for some god damned reason they put an auto playing graphic phone sex ad at the start of that DVD. So, you'll have to have it already cued up on the player before inviting Grandma to watch

I'm not talking about dubbing over swearing. I'm talking about doing an entire new take of a scene with the cast saying new dialog. In Ghostbusters, the TV version has Bill Murray saying "Well, wasn't that a load of fun" or some such when he comes out of the hotel ballroom, instead of his "We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!" You can tell he probably only agreed to one take of that version He also has a different joke instead of the "dickless" line, with a different setup. In Animal House, they filmed it once with women topless, and once with them in bras. I saw the bra version on TV long before I ever saw the theatrical version. Some of this footage even slipped into the main movie: when the guys are fleeing the Black nightclub on their road trip, the girl who jumps out the car window still has her bra on while it was long gone a scene earlier. Obviously, the editor liked the bra take better than the topless one, and figured nobody would notice. Well, either that, or the girl refused to do the stunt without some protection.

It's not uncommon for TV versions of films to have extra scenes included. You have to fit the movie into a certain time slot with commercials, so you either have to cut things out or add bits. Often the added scenes will balance out things you had to cut for content.

(long gone are the days when they would film "clean" versions of scenes for TV, as was done with both Animal House and Ghostbusters)

You know, it would be fun if Jackson himself made an edit. There's the example of the anime Macross Plus. The creators wanted to do a movie, but the studio funding it insisted on four hour long direct to video episodes, so they could make more money. However, the creators structured their scenes so that after the main job was done, they were able to re-edit things down to their original vision with only a few new bits. The two hour version is much better, although the 4 episodes are also good.

You know, maybe part of the problem is having the producer and script editor be the same person. Yes, I know, it's the modern way for a TV series to have one show runner who does everything, but that's not the only way to do a series. If there was someone with almost equal power to bump heads with Moffat, we'd probably have a better show.

I think the difference is, fan fiction is often the equivalent of "if I was the writer of the sequel, this is how I'd do it!" Fan edits can come off as "here's how I would have done your job better."

He did save us from a bad adaptation of the Pern books, though, so that should count for something.

The point of the quote, as Moore seemed to understand it, is when you have choices, take the right one. Naturally, if doing a Corman or Asylum movie is going to be your big break, you take it. But if you don't HAVE to sell out to eat, don't. If you have integrity, try and keep it. (the key point of Moore's quote is "that you know will suck". Obviously, if you think you can do well with it, that's not the case)

It's about long legged rats? Cool.

For classic Who it pretty much was just for fiddling with electronic things, or turning screws. They took it away from the Doctor during the 5th Doctor's reign, as it made things too easy for the character (and thus harder to come up with problems he couldn't solve instantly). Sounds like they should get rid of it again.

I was born a month after Woodstock. All I have to do is throw the movie soundtrack in

I assumed they had at least met. Lots of friends of friends in the entertainment biz.