Abbott, Edwin A., 77
Abe, Sada, 234
Abrams, J. J., 29
Abumrad, Jad, 72
Adams, Douglas, 218
Adams, Randall, 95
Adams, Richard, 179
Adele, 122
Adelstein, Jake, 24
Adrià, Ferran, 145
Aerosmith, 160
Alexie, Sherman, 132
Amazon, 187
Anderson, John, 161
Anderson, Wes, 50–51, 180, 185, 240
Andrews, Julie, 30
Ansari, Aziz, 191
Antarctica, 37
Apple, 100
April Spools Day, 275
Arkin, Alan, 175
Armstrong, Neil, 50
Arndt, Michael, 175
Arnold, Andrea, 209
Aronofsky, Darren, 157
art
film making, 158
lowbrow entertainment and, 160
musicians, 159
poetic dialogue, 50–55, 155, 248
prehistoric, 226
street, 159
Aselton, Katie, 44
Asher, Jay, 113
A Square, 77
Austen, Jane, 78, 107, 199, 205
Australia, 187
Auteil, Daniel, 203
A.V. Club, 197
Avildsen, John G., 176
Babbitt, Natalie, 75
Baldwin, Alec, 46
Baldwin, James, 98
Ballard, J. G., 57
Banksy, 159
Barks, Carl, 39
Barr, Roseanne, 247
Barratt, Julian, 54
Barrie, J. M., 210
Barry, Philip, 125
Barrymore, Drew, 221
The Beatles, 220
Bechdel, Alison, 111
Bell, Zoe, 129
Bengtsson, Frans G., 38
Berg, Peter, 229
Bergman, Ingrid, 221
Bernstein, Carl, 96
Berri, Claude, 203
Beyoncé, 154
bin Laden, Osama, 93
Bissinger, Buzz, 229
Black, Jack, 190
Blank, Les, 158
Blixen, Karen, 143
Blow, Jonathan, 197
Bobin, James, 55
Bocelli, Andrea, 123
Bong, Joon-Ho, 138
Bon Jovi, Jon, 150
books. See also comics & graphic novels
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie & Forney), 132
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 59
An African in Greenland (Kpomassie), 138–184
All the President’s Men (Bernstein & Woodward), 96
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon), 246
American Gods (Gaiman), 247
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 106
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin), 102
Babette’s Feast (Dinesen), 143
The Bible, 254
Blood, Bones & Butter (Hamilton), 144
Bossypants (Fey), 99
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 17–18
A Brief History of Time (Hawking), 81
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz), 128
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 255
The Call of the Wild (London), 245
Casino Royale (Fleming), 18
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 131
Children of Men (James), 75
A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 263
Chronicle of the Navarez Expedition (de Vaca), 38–39
The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), 60, 178
City of Theives (Benioff), 198
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), 54
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell, D.), 134
Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 100–101
Confessions (St. Augustine), 250
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevesky), 198–199
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), 131
The Daughter of Time (Tey), 86–87
Dear Old Love (Selsberg), 233
Deep Thoughts (Handey), 216–217
Delirium (Oliver), 196
Deliverance (Dickey), 48
“The Destructors” (Greene), 253
e-, 133
Earth Abides (Stewart, G.), 251
Eat, Pray, Love (Gilbert), 186
Emma (Austen), 107
The Family Meal (Adrià), 145
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl), 180
Fire (Stewart, G.), 251
Flatland (A Square), 77
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Higgins), 26
F U, Penguin (Gasteier), 178
Game of Thrones (Martin, G.), 21, 251
The Ghost Map (Johnson, S.), 88–89
Gone Girl (Flynn), 236
Gorillas in the Mist (Fossey), 37
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), 108
The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood), 76–77
The Happiness Project (Rubin), 114
Harry Potter (Rowling), 57, 175
High Fidelity (Hornby), 190
A High Wind Jamaica (Hughes, R.), 58–59
His Dark Materials (Pullman), 178
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams, D.), 218
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Seuss), 265
The Hunger Games (Collins), 141
I, Tituba (Conde), 87
I Am Legend (Matheson), 135
I Capture the Castle (Smith, D.), 131–132
The Iliad (Homer), 109
Invisible Man (Ellison), 134
James and the Giant Peach (Dahl), 57–58
Jesus’ Son (Johnson, D.), 248
Joseph and His Brothers (Mann, T.), 254
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee, H.), 239
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen (Sterne), 104
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Lewis), 60
A Little History of the World (Gombrich), 84
Lolita (Nabokov), 232
The Long Ships (Bengtsson), 38
Lord of the Flies (Golding), 47
The Lost City of Z (Grann), 187
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (Thackeray), 156
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Sacks), 99
Miss Manners (Martin, J.), 115
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg), 212
Moby-Dick (Melville), 245
The Most Dangerous Game (Connell), 41
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe), 250
The Name of the Rose (Eco), 86
Names on the Land (Stewart, G.), 251
New Year’s Eve, 271
The Notebook (Sparks), 164
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin, J.), 98
The Odyssey (Homer), 213
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky), 259
Peter Pan (Barrie), 210
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 199
Red Riding (Peace), 198
Right Ho, Jeeves (Wodehouse), 17
The Road (McCarthy), 49
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 46
Room (Donoghue), 132
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 108–109
Shawshank Redemption (King, S.), 49
Shipping Out (Wallace), 185
South (Shackleton), 37
The Stand (King, S.), 251
Storm (Stewart, G.), 251
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (Wallace), 185
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Highsmith), 19
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), 195
Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher), 113
Time Regained (Proust), 108–109
Tokyo Vice (Adelstein), 24
Touching the Void (Simpson), 183
The Travels of Marco Polo (Polo), 35
Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt), 75
Unbroken (Hillenbrand), 48
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 271
Watership Down (Adams, Richard), 179
Into the Wild (Krakauer), 46
The Wind in the Willows (Grahame), 179
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami), 209–210
Wolf Hall (Mantel), 87
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Ascher), 83
A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle), 76
Wuthering Heights (Bronté), 105
Zone One (Whitehead), 76
Boorman, Charley, 186
Bourdain, Anthony, 147
Boyle, Danny, 47
Brennan, Neal, 216
Breslin, Abigail, 175
Bridges, Jeff, 174
Brie, Alison, 193
Brightman, Sarah, 123
Bronté, Emily, 105
Brook, Peter, 47
Buckley, Jeff, 121
Burgess, Anthony, 54
Burns, Charles, 74
Burns, Ken, 95
Burr, Dan E., 84
Burrows, James, 189
Busey, Brook, 52
Bush, Kate, 105
Byrne, Rose, 19
Cameron, James, 211
Campbell, Bruce, 31
Camus, Marcel, 270
Canet, Guillaume, 138
Caplan, Lizzy, 192
Carrey, Jim, 236
Carroll, Lewis, 53
Carruth, Shane, 42
Carson, Johnny, 221
Caruso, Enrico, 155
Carver, Raymond, 237
Cassavetes, Nick, 164
Castelnuovo, Nino, 234
CGI (computer generated imagery), 167
Chabon, Michael, 246
Chapman, Brenda, 59
Charles, Glen and Les, 189
Chase, Chevy, 193
Chase, David, 25
Chastain, Jessica, 93
Cheadle, Don, 126
Chen, Kaige, 88
Child, Julia, 146
Chu, Jon M., 162
Clark, Bob, 266
Clarkson, Kelly, 150
Clement, Jermaine, 55
Clooney, George, 126
Cody, Diablo, 52
Coen, Joel and Ethan, 127, 174
Cohen, Leonard, 121
Cohen, Sacha Baron, 217
Collins, Suzanne, 141
Columbus, Chris, 259
comedy
documentaries, 272
hilarious entertainment, 214–219, 240
interviews, 69
mystery, 269
romantic, 42, 43, 125, 166, 199, 202–203, 240
stand-up, 112, 216, 219, 227, 272
comics and graphic novels
The Adventures of Tintin (Hergé), 61
Age of Bronze series (Shanower), 109
Black Hole (Burns, C.), 74
Bone (Smith, J.), 139
The Book of Genesis (Crumb), 105
Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), 58
Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 100–101
Economix (Goodwin & Burr), 84
fantasy, 139
Fun Home (Bechdel), 111
gangsters and drugs, 24
historical fiction, 89
horror, 74
The Influencing Machine (Gladstone & Neufeld), 82
love stories, 235
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (Spiegelman), 89
Persepolis (Satrapi), 133
Shortcomings (Tomine), 235
Sin City (Miller), 24
The Walking Dead (Kirkman), 48
Watchmen (Moore), 27, 128, 195
Conde, Maryse, 87
Connell, Richard, 41
Connery, Sean, 219
Coplan, Aaron, 249
Coppola, Francis Ford, 27
Costa-Gavras, 225
Costner, Kevin, 137
Cousteau, Jacques, 36
Cromwell, Thomas, 87
Cross, David, 255
Crow, Sheryl, 221
Crumb, Robert, 105
Cunningham, Bill, 156
Curry, Tim, 29
Curtis, Richard, 267
Cusack, John, 190
Daniels, Greg, 191
Darabont, Frank, 49
Darnielle, John, 235
David, Larry, 111
Davis, Andrew, 202
Dawson, Rosario, 129
Day-Lewis, Daniel, 18
Defoe, Daniel, 46
Demme, Jonathan, 173
Deneuve, Catherine, 234
De Niro, Robert, 239
Depardieu, Gérard, 203
Derby, Matthew, 133
Deschanel, Zooey, 260
Diaz, Junot, 128
Dickens, Charles, 195, 263, 264
Dickey, James, 48
Dinesen, Isak, 143
Dinklage, Peter, 251
documentaries
comedy, 272
concert, 92
film making, 158
political, 225
reality TV, 19–20, 145, 147, 161, 162, 166, 179, 187
street art, 159
Donner, Richard, 259
Donoghue, Emma, 132
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 196, 198–199, 235, 255
Duplass, Mark, 44
Duris, Romain, 257
Ebert, Alex, 122
ebooks, 133
Eco, Umberto, 86
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, 122, 224–225
Eisenberg, Jesse, 128–129, 190
Eisner, Will, 100
Elfont, Harry, 271
Ellison, Ralph, 134
Enbom, John, 192
Ephron, Nora, 125
Etheridge, Dan, 192
Eurydice, 270
Falk, Peter, 92
Favreau, Jon, 266
Fellowes, Julian, 20
Feynman, Richard, 98
Fielding, Noel, 54
Fiennes, Ralph, 205
Fincher, David, 128–129, 208–209
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 108
Flagg, Fannie, 172
Flaherty, Robert J., 94
Fleetwod Mac, 122
Fleming, Ian, 18
Flynn, Gillian, 236
foreign movies
Chinese, 88
Danish, 143
French, 42, 138, 203, 233–234, 257
Italian, 17
Japanese, 24, 74, 140, 143, 172–173, 196–197, 234
Forman, Miloš, 159
Forney, Ellen, 132
Fossey, Dian, 37
Foster, Jodie, 173
Foxx, Jamie, 207
Franco, James, 47
Franklin, Benjamin, 102
Frears, Stephen, 190
Freeman, Morgan, 49
Frost, Mark, 31
Frost, Nick, 258
Gaiman, Neil, 247
Gaines, Gary, 229
Galifianakis, Zach, 269
Gambon, Michael, 175
Garbage (band), 221
Garfield, Bob, 70
Gasteier, Matthew, 178
Gelb, David, 143
Gervais, Ricky, 217
Gibson, Mel, 243
Giger, H. R., 137
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 186
Gillespie, Kevin, 145
Gilligan, Vince, 23
Gillis, Greg, 149
Glass, Ira, 71
Glover, Donald, 193
Golding, William, 47
Goldman, William, 96
Gombrich, Ernst H., 84
Goodman, John, 247
Goodwin, Michael, 84
Grahame, Kenneth, 179
Grann, David, 187
Grant, Cary, 125
graphic novels. See comics and graphic novels
Greene, Graham, 253
Greenfield, Lauren, 228
Grezzo, 38
Groening, Matt, 215
Guetta, Thierry, 159
Hackman, Gene, 51
Haddon, Mark, 131
Hader, Bill, 261
Halloween, 276
Hamilton, Gabrielle, 144
Harris, Calvin, 152
Harris, Richard, 175
Hawking, Stephen, 81
Heckerling, Amy, 107
Heller, Bruno, 86
Hendrix, Jimi, 230
Henson, Jim, 180
Henson, John, 161
Hepburn, Katharine, 125
Hergé, 61
Higgins, George V., 26
Highsmith, Patricia, 19
Hill, Henry, 25
Hillenbrand, Laura, 48
Hitchcock, Alfred, 44
Hoey, Charlie, 108
Hornby, Nick, 190
Horowitz, Eli, 133
Houston, Whitney, 249
Hudson, Hugh, 226
Hussey, Ruth, 125
Iggy Pop and the Stooges, 149
Inspectah Deck, 53
internet. See also YouTube
astrophysics, 102
education on, 83
inspirational speeches on, 243
love stories, 233
searches, 11
travel guide, 184
Iran, 133
Ishida, Kichizo, 234
Jackson, Michael, 92
Jackson, “Shoeless” Joe, 137
Jackson, Stephen, 242
James, P. D., 75
James, Rick, 216
Jarvis, Jonathan, 82
Jenner, Kris, 20
Jennings, Ken, 117
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre, 42
Jobs, Steve, 100
Johansson, Scarlett, 155
Johnson, Denis, 248
Johnson, Rian, 51
Jones, James Earl, 137
Jones, Tommy Lee, 202
Kaplan, Deborah, 271
Kaufman, Charlie, 236
Kazan, Elia, 239
Keaton, Diane, 27
de Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa, 154
Kelly, R., 163
Kessler, Glenn and Todd, 19
Keys, Alicia, 213
Keyser, Christopher, 114
Kidman, Nicole, 220
The Killers, 123
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 238
King, Stephen, 49, 220, 251, 257
Kinsella, W. P., 137
Kirkman, Robert, 48
Klapisch, Cédric, 257
Klayman, Alison, 101
Knopfler, Mark, 123
Konigsburg, E. L., 212
Kpomassie, Tété-Michel, 183–184
Kroll, Nick, 44
Krulwich, Robert, 72
Kubrick, Stanley, 156
Kurosawa, Akira, 172–173, 196–197
Lady Gaga, 177
Lajoie, Jonathan, 44
Lakshmi, Padmi, 145
Lambrakis, Grigoris, 225
Lancaster, Burt, 17
Lasseter, John, 147
L’Auberge Espagnole, 257
Leap Day, 274
Lee, Harper, 239
L’Engle, Madeleine, 76
Leonard, Elmore, 126
de Lestrade, Jean-Xavier, 92–93
Levi’s, 155
Levi’s “Go Forth” ad, 155
Levitan, Steven, 113
Lincoln, Abraham, 177
Linklater, Richard, 192
Lipes, Jody Lee, 273
Lippman, Amy, 114
Lloyd, Christopher, 113
LMFAO, 273
Loach, Ken, 41
Lombard, Carol, 43
Lopez, Jennifer, 126
Louiso, Todd, 190
Lumet, Sydney, 202
Lynch, David, 31
Lynch, Jane, 192
MacDonald, Kevin, 183
MacDonald, William J., 86
MacFarlane, Seth, 217
Malick, Terrence, 253
Mamet, David, 46
Mann, Michael, 242
Mann, Thomas, 254
Mantel, Hilary, 87
Maron, Marc, 69
Marr, Andrew, 68
Martin, George R. R., 21
Martin, Judith, 115
Matheson, Richard, 135
Mayday, 275
Maysles, Albert and David, 96
McAdams, Rachel, 164
McCandless, Christopher Jonathan, 46
McCarthy, Cormac, 49
McConaughey, Matthew, 192
McDonald, Brendan, 69
McGregor, Ewan, 186
McHale, Joel, 193
McKenzie, Bret, 55
McPherson, Mark, 232
McShane, Ian, 52
Melville, Herman, 245
Meriwether, Elizabeth, 260
Merriman, Shawne, 242
Meyers, Jonathan Rhys, 155
Michaels, Lorne, 261
Miike, Takashi, 140
Milius, John, 86
Millepied, Benjamin, 157
Miller, Frank, 24
Mirren, Helen, 95
Mitchell, David, 134
Mitchell, Jamie, 180
Mitchum, Robert, 26
Miyazaki, Hiyao, 74
Moffett, Kevin, 133
Mongolia, 35
Montand, Yves, 203
Moore, Alan, 195
Moore, Demi, 121
Moore, Jason, 257
Moore, Michael, 95
Morita, Pat, 176
Morris, Errol, 95
Mother’s Day, 250
Mottola, Greg, 190
Mountain Goats (band), 235
movies. See also documentaries;
foreign movies
Adventureland, 190
The Age of Innocence, 18
Alien, 137
All the President’s Men, 96
Amadeus, 159
Amélie, 42
animated, 35–36, 39, 59, 74, 106–107, 146–147, 180
Anna Karenina, 106
Apocalypse Now, 254
Army of Darkness, 31
Avatar, 211
The Avengers, 258
Babe, 178
Babette’s Feast, 143
Bachelor Party, 270
Barry Lyndon, 156
The Battle of Algiers, 90
The Big Lebowski, 174
Bill Cunningham New York, 156
Black Orpheus, 270
Black Swan, 157
Blue Valentine, 237
Borat, 217
Brave, 59
Braveheart, 243
The Breakfast Club, 260
Brick, 51
Burden of Dreams, 158
Can’t Hardly Wait, 271
Casino Royale, 18
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 226
CGI in, 167
Chariots of Fire, 226
Children of Men, 75
City Slickers, 171
A Clockwork Orange, 54
Clueless, 107
Contagion, 140
The Darjeeling Limited, 185
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, 272
Dazed and Confused, 192
Death Proof, 129
Deliverance, 48
Donnie Darko, 253
Eat Drink Man Woman, 144
The Edge, 46
Elf, 266
Emma, 107
Empire of the Sun, 57
The Empire Strikes Back, 171
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 236
The Evil Dead, 31
Exit Through the Gift Shop, 159
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 180
Farewell My Concubine, 88
Field of Dreams, 137
Fish Tank, 209
Fitzcarraldo, 158
Friday Night Lights, 229
Fried Green Tomatoes, 172
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 26
The Fugitive, 202
Gangs of New York, 18
Ghost, 121
The Godfather: Part II, 27
Goodfellas, 25
Goonies, 259
Gorillas In the Mist, 37
Groundhog Day, 78
The Hangover, 269
He Got Game, 249
Henry V, 104
High Fidelity, 190
Home Alone, 141
The Host, 138
The Hurt Locker, 93
It’s a Wonderful Life, 263–264
Jeanne de Florette, 203
Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 143
Juno, 52
The Karate Kid, 176
Kes, 41
To Kill a Mockingbird, 239
The Land Before Time, 180
The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ (Scorcese), 253
The Leopard, 17
Little Miss Sunshine, 175
Lord of the Flies, 47
Lord of the Rings, 116, 139, 191, 254
Love Actually, 267
Manon of the Spring, 203
Meatballs, 240
Millers Crossing, 127
Miracle on 34th Street, 264
The Muppets, 180
musicals, 29, 30–31, 233–234, 257
My Cousin Vinny, 204
My Man Godfrey, 43
Nanook of the North, 94
The New World, 253
The Notebook, 164
127 Hours, 47
Out of Sight, 126
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 259
The Philadelphia Story, 125–126
Pitch Perfect, 257
Planet Earth, 181
Point Break, 189
Primer, 42
Queen of Versailles, 228
Raging Bull, 239
In the Realm of the Senses, 234
Reprise, 272
Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, 219
The Road, 49
Robocop, 245
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 29
The Room, 33
Rushmore, 240
Salesman, 96
Sense and Sensibility, 107
The September Issue, 101
Shakespeare in Love, 205
Shawshank Redemption, 49
Silence of the Lambs, 173
Sin City, 24
Spirited Away, 74
Star Trek, 29
Step Up 2, 162
Tell No One, 138
Terminator 2, 63
La Terra Trema, 17
The Thin Blue Line, 95
13 Assassins, 140
This Is It, 92
Three Days of the Condor, 126, 265–266
Tiny Furniture, 41
Top Gun, 163
Touching the Void, 183
The Trip, 146
Tristram Shandy, 104
The Tuxedo, 117
12 Angry Men, 202
2001: A Space Odyssey, 116
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 233–234
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, 36
The Vengeance Trilogy, 206
Vertigo, 44
On the Waterfront, 239
When Harry Met Sally, 125
Into the Wild, 46
Y Tu Mamá También, 184
Z, 225
Zero Dark Thirty, 93
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 159
Murphy, Charlie, 216
Murphy, Eddie, 216
music. See also songs
videos, 154, 156, 163, 218, 224–225, 273
Nabokov, Vladimir, 232
Neufeld, Josh, 82
Newell, Mike, 57
New Year’s Day, 274
Nike, 242
Norman, Marc, 205
North, Alex, 121
Notaro, Tig, 112
Notorious B.I.G., 126
Novak, Kim, 44
NPR (National Public Radio), 67, 70, 71, 72
O’Brien, Richard, 29
Ojala, Santeri, 218
Oliver, Lauren, 196
Open University, 80
Orpheus, 270
Ortega, Kenny, 92
Ôshima, Nagisa, 234
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 264
Overman, Howard, 78
Owen, Clive, 75
Pacino, Al, 104
Page, Ellen, 52
Palance, Jack, 171
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 107, 140, 205
Park Chan-Wook, 206
Parker, Trey, 60
Peace, David, 198
Peck, Gregory, 239
Pegg, Simon, 258
Petty, Adria, 154
Phillips, Todd, 269
Plato, 174
Plummer, Christopher, 30
podcasts
about, 66
economics, 67
for emotional intelligence, 112, 115
language, 70
Lexicon Valley, 70
Live, 112
On the Media, 70
Planet Money, 67
Radiolab, 72
Savage Love, 115
sex advice, 115
Start the Week, 68
This American Life, 71
WTF with Marc Maron, 69
Poe, Edgar Allan, 250
The Pogues, 122
Poitier, Sydney Tamila, 129
Polo, Marco, 35
Pontecorvo, Gillo, 90
Portman, Natalie, 157
Powell, William, 43
Press, Richard, 156
Pryor, Richard, 219
Public Broadcasting Service. See PBS remixes Public Enemy, 249
Pudi, Danny, 193
Pullman, Philip, 178
Quarantotto, Lucio, 123
Queen (band), 151
Quinn, Russell, 133
radio. See podcasts
Raimi, Sam, 31
Ramis, Harold, 78
Reeves, Keanu, 189
Reiner, Rob, 125, 202, 257–258
Reinert, Al, 36
Reitman, Ivan, 240
Reynolds, Ryan, 190
Reznor, Trent, 230
Richard III (king), 87
Righteous Brothers, 121
Rihanna, 152
Rittelmeyer, Helen, 255
Rockstar North, 23
Rodgers and Hammerstein, 30
Rooney, Mickey, 178
Ross, Bob, 165
Ross, Rick, 151
Rovio Entertainment, 164
Rowling, J. K., 175
Rubin, Gretchen, 114
Russell, Bertrand, 80
Sacks, Oliver, 99
St. Augustine, 250
Salieri, Antonio, 159
Salinger, J. D., 131
Sartori, Francesco, 123
Satrapi, Marjane, 133
Savage, Dan, 115
Schaffner, Franklin J., 241–242
Scheer, Paul, 44
Scheffer, James, 123
Schur, Michael, 191
Scorcese, Martin, 18, 25, 239, 253
Scott, Adam, 192
Scott, Ridley, 137
Scott, Tony, 163
Seaton, George, 264
Segel, Jason, 180
Seinfeld, Jerry, 111
Selsberg, Andy, 233
Sendak, Maurice, 57
Seuss, Dr., 265
Shackleton, Ernest, 37
Shaffer, Peter, 159
Shakespeare, William, 52, 87, 104, 196, 205, 241
Shanower, Eric, 109
Sharman, Jim, 29
Sheen, Charlie, 230
Siegel, David (musician), 123
Siegel, David and Jackie (tycoons), 228
Silver, Nate, 83
Simon, David, 26
Simpson, Joe, 183
Smith, Jeff, 139
Smith, Maggie, 20
Smith, Pete, 108
Sobieski, Carol, 172
songs and albums
“All Along the Watchtower,” 230
“At Folsom Prison,” 248
Beyoncé’s “Countdown,” 154
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” 151
“Born in the U.S.A.”, 152
“Call Your Girlfriend,” 150–151
Christmas, 263
classical and operatic, 123, 154–155, 156, 157, 159, 253–254, 263
“Countdown,” 154
“C.R.E.A.M.”, 53
cult classic, 30
“Don’t Stop Believin’”, 161
“Empire State of Mind,” 213
“Ether,” 127
Eurovision Song Contest, 55
“Fairytale of New York,” 122
“Faithfully,” 121
“Feed the Animals,” 149
“The Final Countdown,” 148–149
“Hallelujah,” 121
“Happy Little Clouds” Bob Ross PBS
Remix, 165
He Got Game soundtrack, 249
hip hop and rap, 53, 112, 123, 126–127, 151, 163, 246, 249
“Home,” 122
“Hurt,” 230
“Hustlin’”, 151
“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” 160
“Illmatic,” 246
“Julia Child PBS Remix,” 146
“Landslide,” 122
“Livin’ on a Prayer,” 150
love, 120–123, 150, 152, 160, 235
Michael Jackson’s last show, 92
musicals, 29, 30–31, 233–234, 257
music videos, 154, 156, 163, 218, 224–225, 273
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, 112
New Year’s Eve, 269–270, 272, 273
Nike’s “Leave Nothing” ad, 242
“No Children,” 235
“The Nutcracker,” 263
“Once More, With Feeling,” 30
“Party Rock Anthem,” 273
“Romeo and Juliet,” 123
“Search and Destroy,” 149
“The Shreds,” 218
“Since U Been Gone,” 150
“Someone Like You,” 122
“Time to Say Goodbye,” 123
“Trapped in the Closet,” 163
“Unchained Melody,” 121
Wagner’s, R., 253
“We Found Love,” 152
“Whatever You Like,” 123
“Wuthering Heights,” 105
YouTube videos, 146, 165, 249, 269–270
Sparks, Nicholas, 164
Spiegelman, Art, 89
Spielberg, Steven, 57, 89, 259
Springsteen, Bruce, 152
Starr, Martin, 192
Sterne, Laurence, 104
Stewart, George R., 251
Stewart, Kristen, 190
Stone, Matt, 60
StSanders, 218
T. I. (hip hop artist), 123
Tandy, Jessica, 172
Tarantino, Quentin, 129, 206–207
Tautou, Audrey, 257
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 157, 263
television. See TV
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 156, 271
Thatgamecompany, 211
Thoms, Traci, 129
Thornton, Billy Bob, 229
Tituba, 87
Tolstoy, Leo, 106
Tomei, Marisa, 204
Tomine, Adrian, 235
Trebek, Alex, 219
Trier, Joachim, 272
TV. See also YouTube
Da Ali G Show, 217
The Amazing Race, 187
America’s Funniest Home Videos, 161
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, 147
Arrested Development, 255
Band of Brothers, 89
The Brady Bunch, 20
Breaking Bad, 23
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 30
“Celebrity Jeopardy!”, 219
Chappelle’s Show, 216
A Charlie Brown Christmas, 264–265
Cheers, 189
Columbo, 92
Community, 193
Damages, 19
Deadwood, 52
Disney Mousketeers, 252
Downton Abbey, 20
Ducktales, 39
Eurovision Song Contest, 55
Family Feud, 62
Family Matters, 62
Flight of the Concords, 55
Freaks and Geeks, 32
Jeopardy!, 117
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 19–20
Law & Order, 94
The League, 44
Levi’s “Go Forth,” 155
Long Way Round, 186
Louie, 227
The Mighty Boosh, 54
Misfits, 78
Modern Family, 113
Murder on a Sunday Morning (de Lestrade), 93
music videos, 154, 156, 163, 218, 224–225, 273
New Girl, 260
New Year’s Eve, 273
Nike’s “Leave Nothing” spot, 242
The Office, 217
Parks and Recreation, 191
Party Down, 192
Party of Five, 114
Prime Suspect, 95
The Real Housewives of New York City, 162
Red Riding, 198
Rome, 86
Roseanne, 247
The Sopranos, 25
South Park, 60
Star Trek, 29
Top Chef, Las Vegas, 145
Twin Peaks, 31
Veronica Mars, 43
The Walking Dead, 48
Weeds, 23
The Westminster Dog Show, 179
Wipeout, 161
The Wire, 26
Tyson, Neil deGrasse, 102
Underwood, Ron, 171
de Vaca, Álvar Núñez Cabeza, 38–39
Verhoeven, Paul, 245
VICE Media, 184
video games
Angry Birds, 164
Braid, 197
Flower, 211
Grand Theft Auto IV, 23
The Great Gatsby, 108
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 38
Street Fighter 2, 63
violence, 167
Visconti, Luchino, 17
Vuolo, Mike, 70
Wachowski, Larry (Lana) and Andy, 174–175
Wagner, Jill, 161
Wallace, David Foster, 185
Wao, Oscar, 128
Washington, Denzel, 249
Watterson, Bill, 58
WBEZ radio, 71
Weiss, D. B., 21
Weiwei, Ai, 101
Weller, Peter, 245
West, Kanye, 112
Wharton, Edith, 18
Whitehead, Colson, 76
Whitman, Walt, 155
Widen and Kennedy, 155
Wiig, Kristen, 127–128, 252, 261
Williams, Michelle, 237
Wilson, Dan, 122
Wilson, Rebel, 257
Winslet, Kate, 236
Winterbottom, Michael, 104, 146
Wintour, Anna, 101
Wiseau, Tommy, 33
Wodehouse, P. G., 17
Wolf, Dick, 94
Wood, Elijah, 24
Woodward, Bob, 96
Wright, Joe, 106
Wu-Tang Clan, 53
Yates, Simon, 183
YouTube videos
animated history lessons on, 80, 82
cats, 81
inspirational speeches, 243
Super Bowl, 249
technology, 100
Zamperini, Louis, 48
Zanet, Hy, 121
Zelman, Daniel, 19
Zwerin, Charlotte, 96