and connecting it to this story, Whitlock got into his own Linsanity kerfuffle last Tuesday after his joke tweet about Asian men's alleged, um, shortcomings, that followed Lin's buzzer-beater basket that beat Toronto.

Unlike the ESPN situation, Whitlock apologized and was neither fired nor suspended by Fox.

Given the way he's treated past girlfriends, Olby's a misogynistic loon who might actually believe his own hype about there being no rapes in the OWS camps (and if there were, Keith's probably convinced himself they were likely done by evil Republicans merely disguised as OWSers to ruin the good name of the movement).

Christopher on the other hand knows better both about the OWS camps and about Olbermann's instability and habit of throwing out fraudulent charges. But he's decided that since he ideologically agrees with most of what the OWSers stand for, he's willing to stand with Keith on this one and pretend that his side's street protesters travel the country on unicorns and crap rainbows, because not to do so would hurt The Cause. Deliberately denying reality is in a way worse than being batshirt crazy enough to demand that reality conform to whatever you believe at the moment, which is pretty much Olby's credo.

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".