It's also called "being Kanye." Isn't he the same guy who's all about elevating the act of being famous to an art form? Ask any artist - you don't always get to control how others consume your art.

This is just one degree of family relations away from the plot of that Mickey Rourke movie Angel Heart.

I don't *think* that would be your takeaway, although I would be interested to hear a teacher's review of it. I certainly didn't read it as any indictment of the profession- it's more that the adults' terrible behavior is thrown into sharper relief because the background is a grade school.

That's a weird one. I saw the first half of it while staying at a hotel, then I had to leave and I missed the second half, so I'm not sure if all the weirdness from the first half pays off. I wouldn't be opposed to watching the rest of it, but I also never made any effort to do so. Tom Cruise's character in K&D has…

haha, maybe! It cracked me up that we both used the word "stinkers" to describe Tom Cruise's bad movies. I hated Vanilla Sky although YMMV

I have only two words for you and your extravagant soup kitchen gala: coal mine.

I'll take the slightly better version if they remove the lacing on the back and change the color of the front lacing to red, yellow or pale pink. Charlize, who probably has one of the most perfect bodies on earth, looks like she has one tiny boob and one large boob. I vote Heigl wore it best, but the neckline is…

Shit,I should have just read your comment and liked it instead of writing almost the exact same thing below.

I think Tom Cruise is a creep and total lunatic and that he props up the cult and scam that is Scientology, but I did go see Edge of Tomorrow (sue me!) and I will say that he is a legit movie star for a reason. Not that he never made any stinkers, but he really delivers on screen and has even done some smart,…

this is the best description of "Illuminati imagery" I've ever seen.

yeah, I couldn't tell if that was part of the fever dream, though

This is not hyperbole- I sincerely wonder if Ben Stein has dementia. I know the American Spectator is a rag now (it used to actually feature smart writers you could reasonably disagree with), but even for AS, this seems beyond the pale. For one thing, it's WAY off message. I had to read so many words before I got to…

Capped off by a last, totally off-key gasp. I feel you.

Well, I mean, he'll take it, if you don't want it.

This is seriously the dumbest. This is like a moral stance my pompous idiot teenage self and pompous idiot teenage friends would have staked out when we were 15. "Yeah, I'm a conscious consumer who's really examined the ethical underpinnings of my choices and, as a result, I've come up with a pretend criteria that…

US travelers should be aware that life...ah...finds a way.

I agree (and man, I really thought hard about posting anything at all here because the invective is getting hot! and not in a sexy way.) but i wanted to add my voice to yours because, yes, I totally agree we are all shaped by the world we live in, which is inescapably patriarchal (just as it is inescapably racist).…

I've been feeling anxious for (I don't want to say "sorry for") Belle Knox in light of all the bullshit she's had to endure since her sex work became public, but based on her sharp, insightful writing, I'm going to stop worrying. She's got this.

It's still a mystery to me, because even if you missed it in the theaters, how have you not caught it on tv? But in his younger, more self-serious years, he consciously avoided mainstream, blockbuster movies. It took meeting me, with my pedestrian love of summer action movies, to get him to come around.