Open letter to TV commercial directors of photog­raphy: Shaking the camera will not make what the ad is saying more true. It will only make your viewers seasick. This is espe­cially so on larger screens. No one wants to buy a product whose ad made them barf. It doesn’t make your subject more “real,” or “raw,” or “edgy,” or “relevant.” It’s also such a Commie thing to do. Cinéma vérité, Dogme 95, reality tele­vision, docu­mentary film­making — all are direct ideo­logical descen­dants of Soviet agitprop and dialec­tical mate­ri­alism. The idea that shaking the camera makes the subject more realistic, by analogue to [ . . . ]

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Alex Trebek asks a contestant, who boasts that she has slept in a hotel room floating on the Kwai river in Thailand, whether the original bridge (of cinema fame) is still there.