I started riding the No. 6 line to visit my relatives in Parkchester back in the early 1960s, when the old clunkers were brand-new, so I had fondness for them, too. But apparently you're going to get some of the older trains (at least the 1980s ones) back in a few years. I read a story that said because the MTA wants to computerize the Flushing line's signal and train operations systems, they're going to have to take the newer trains from the No. 6 and move it's 30-year-old cars over to the Lex.

At least they can realistically do the hostage set-up/escape plan in "Pelham 1-2-3" again. But I hate those damn bucket seats on the Flushing line.

Trivia about the remake -- Since they needed a single car to decouple, and the current subway cars on the Pelham Bay Park line are locked into five-car sets, they had to take one of the older NYC cars built in the mid-1980s that could be operated by itself and "apply make-up" to it to redesign the outside so it would look like a current No. 6 train. Too bad they didn't spent as much time working on the actual script.

Jeez Louise -- Just type "Oprah network ratings problems" into Google, and the first link is to Forbes, while the second link is to the HuffPo and there are no links to News Corp. sites on the first page of hits.

If you're going to make a statement, at least fact-check your own claims before you post them.

On the other hand, if they had done the halftime show on MSNBC, MIA's gesture would have fit in perfectly with the attitude towards America of the rest of their lineup.

Part of the problem is Hollywood hedged their bets starting in the 1970s against a single theater getting stuck for 2-3 weeks showing a bomb by coming up with the multiplex concept, which was taken to the extreme in the 1990s when AMC Theaters unveiled the massive 24-screen movie 'palaces'. That way, even if AMC was stuck showing a turkey on 5-6 screens, there were still 18-19 other ones where they could make their money back.

But part of the cost-savings was via consolidation of both snack bars and rest room facilities. Get in the wrong theater all the way down near the fire exit, and not only is it a long walk to the snack bar (if the auxiliaries are closed) and the potty (ditto), but you're sharing them (i.e -- standing in line) with people from 23 other screens. No matter how comfortable you make it, you're not going to have the same level of accessibility as back when you had single-screen movie houses.

The theater owners don't want to go back to the single-screen concept, especially now with the number of crappy films exponentially higher than 30 years ago. At best, you might be able to segregate the types of movies into theaters showing those designed more for adult audiences and those catering the the teen cell phone texting crowd, but that would probably only work in the biggest cities, since again, the theater owners don't want to end up booking a bunch of 'artsty' films of limited interest or a bunch of teen flicks that turns the theater into something resembling the island from "Lord of the Flies".

Ellen's actually been smart about her career and her lifestyle, after seeing her ABC show's rating come crashing down a decade ago because she allowed it to become too much about her lifestyle, after she came out as a lesbian and allowed liberals in the big media to basically frame it as "The Lesbian Show You Should Be Watching If You're A Sophisticated, Enlightened Person". Comedy certified by the PC police as being good for the knuckle-dragging masses in flyover country is bad comedy 99.9 percent of the time.

Basically she's been to the career abyss and back, and unlike, say, Rosie O'Donnell, has decided not to spent the rest of her life in public as the angry, militant representative of her social group (the fact that Degeneres doesn't look like a grumpy bulldog also doesn't hurt, but if she had the same sort of anger as Rosie, that would simply make her the blond Rachel Maddow, and she'd end up with ratings roughly in the same area). J.C. Penney hiring her as a spokesperson is specifically because she's tries to keep her social causes from being the driving forced behind her show in recent years.

Harry Potted.

Publicity stunt by someone desperately trying to pretend it's 1989 and she's relevant all over again.

But it would be fun if -- like other frivolous liberal flights of fancy in the past -- if Rosanne's PR stunt and likely moonbat comments that are to follow actually do start attracting support from the OWS crowd and firendly media coverage from the far left press. Hollywood reacting to a Hollywood celeb threatening to pull votes away from Obama on the left could create some Ralph Nader-Florida 2000 flashbacks for Obama's more ardent supporters in both the celebrity and the big media worlds, and it would be fun to see how they then treated Ms. Barr (most likely how Ms. Barr treated most of her show's producers over it's run).

Even better -- They should have copied the Greenpeace-connected ending from "Seinfeld", where the noble hero falls out of the boat and is washed away.

Yep -- fracking opponents want to treat everyone else the same way climate change fanatics treat "deniers" -- they not only want to silence them, they want to make it a virtual crime to voice any opposing view at all that supports fracking.

(The fact is if you get a company that doesn't follow proper safety rules when using the process to drill in shale formations, and installs faulty casings, or a company that improperly reinjects brine into wells that aren't properly cased in the shallow areas where the potable water aquifers are, then yea, you can have problems. But those are problems with the companies that require oversight and fines, not with the procedure itself. Those on the left want others to believe that even though fracking dates back to 1948, it's impossible to use the process without contaminating the groundwater.)