She is a cutie. A little too poly for my taste, but she's super charismatic. In the few parties I've been to where she was there, she's got that magnetic effect on the crowd that you sometimes see with serious showbiz talents.

Grecian is an actual word; it's archaic, but it's not made up. Sometimes (virtually always) the correct way of referring to a people and a language in another language is at odds with how those people refer to themselves. Take Japanese - in Japanese, the word for the language is Nihongo, and for the nation, Nippon.…

Your English usage was perfectly fine. If you were speaking in Greek, you'd use the Greek words, but in English and most other languages hollywoodgreece is contradicting common usage.

Hellas and Hellene (or Hellenic) are correct in Greek, but not in English. English refers to Greece using Latin names (the words "Greece" and "Greek" are Latin, not Greek). The majority of the world uses a derivation of the Latin word, and of the names in many languages for Greece, those using the "H" version are the…

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I didn't see the handrail reach out and slap someone? He gets and deserves the major share of blame and condemnation, but that doesn't make her innocent.

Well, if he was already a suspect, and they found his semen on the shawl of a murder victim... Fairly strong evidence, seems like. Not like they picked this guy out at random.

What makes him a huge flight risk? Does he have foreign relatives? Assets overseas? Access to a private jet? I'm just curious how you came to this conclusion.

It's not a punishment. It's pre-trial confinement to make sure he shows up for the trial. His punishment will come after he's convicted, assuming he is. That's how justice systems typically work.

You don't get punished for a crime until you are convicted of it. Pre-trial confinement is to ensure that the accused shows up at trial. If they don't think he's going to run for it, they charge him enough bail to make it painful if he does and let him go.

I have a question. Can you jeopardize your someday maybe license to practice medicine by giving out medical advice on the Internets? Especially when you are, you know, not exactly right? I thought medical societies generally frowned on non-experts using the color of expertise to give out questionable medical tips.

I like how you can see a reflection in the video that shows he walked just barely off camera, paused for a minute, walked back towards the camera and said (apparently to no one) "get this mic off me, I'm done." Staging a walk off doesn't exactly cast him in the best moral light.

You'd think entertainment lawyers would have a passing familiarity with IP law, especially basic DMCA rules that practically every YouTuber can quote.

For at least some of them, it's almost certain that she does not in fact own the copyright. For copyright-able content, the rights attach to the person who created the content. In some of these photographs, it's clear that JLaw did not take the photos herself... That means someone else owns the copyrights. We don't…

Thanks for your opinion and go fuck yourself with a brick. I'm sure you can find a smarmy, self-righteous and barely cognitively aware method for doing that. You have that skillset, clearly.

Maybe if its expensive to run, the drive-thru managers should take a cut of the earnings. And then they can help the prostitutes locate and attract potential customers. Win-win-win, right??

Sure. Like I said - what the hackers / leakers did was wrong and they deserve to be punished. But let's be frank - she's made many millions of dollars from the sexual obsession she inspired in her male fans. Unlike the other actresses victimized (including Jennifer Lawrence specifically, an Oscar winning actress),…

Yes, they do, and no, they don't. I agree. However, does that totally absolve them of any complicity in perpetuating a celebrity culture that focuses inordinately on women's sexuality? Do you disagree that this celebrity culture is a major factor in these leaks?

Mark - I don't think the women are to blame for the leakers, nor should anyone criticize them for taking photos or videos of themselves. It's a thing people do and have the right to do, unlike hacking and leaking.

Let's stipulate that the leakers are criminals and jackasses and deserve what they will probably get. But let's not be naive — some of the victims have built a career by cultivating a fanbase focused on physical attraction. The obsession with their looks and body (thinking Kate Upton here) is the fundamental basis of…