She knew there was going to be a sex scene, but how explicit it was, plus the butter thing, was not presented to her until they were on set. Brando and Bertolucci had thought of it over breakfast that day and were super gung-ho about it. They never thought to ask her if she wanted to do it, and it never dawned on…

But this scene cast a shadow over her life and career. She was known for it until she died and couldn’t get offered roles in normal, non-exploitative movies. It kind of ruined her life.

I’ve read an article about this before because I was freaked out by Last Tango and couldn’t watch it — Maria Schneider is so baby-faced in it that it disgusted me too much — she looks about 14. In it, she said that she was just informed that day what exactly was going to be done, and being so young she had no idea…

I didn’t know that! In one of the interviews I saw, Mark said his father was a genius, but not at life — he was smart but couldn’t get along with people or cope with things. He also said his father beat his mother, and as I remember he may have talked about him having a drinking problem too.

If they wanted to be petty, Hillary’s people could invite Obama’s other half-brother Mark, who is a really well-adjusted guy, owns a computer related company in southern China and volunteers teaching piano at an orphanage. I’ve seen him interviewed a few times. He’s seems nice, just does his own thing, and keeps a…

Well, Alfred Jarry of Ubu Roi fame lived in a crawl space. But then again, that was after he became a down-and-out alcoholic.

Maybe he still has one of the older generation ID cards and has avoided changing over to the new one with the chip? That’s my guess.

I remember him saying that when he flies to the US his luggage is checked in by and registered to an assistant with a more Hindu-sounding name because that’s the only way to get his things in a timely way. If they see a Muslim name on the tag the suitcase gets flagged for so much extra screening it doesn’t even wind…

Or, you could get vomited on and then robbed on the way to the hotel, like Shi Dongping and the journalist who was with him.

United’s in-flight entertainment doesn’t even have subtitling on English-language films. That means if you can’t hear well, it’s impossible to watch most of the movies they show. I’ve had to give up and just search for any foreign movie that seems interesting. I wrote to them about this, raising it as a disability…

United staff are either wonderful or terrible. I had a great stewardess who gave me a ton of help the first time I flew with my cat. On the other hand, I was on a flight where the attendants skipped our row of seats at mealtime, didn’t respond to the call button, so I finally had to go back and get them. Then during…

Cathay Pacific don’t give you as many meals as they used to (I remember getting like four on a transpacific flight once, but now it’s the standard 2), but they’re generous with free wine and you can go to the galley and get snacks for free anytime you want. They have instant noodles, Toblerone bars, apples, oranges,…

Especially because there were two different burns on her neck, one above the other. If something had caught her whipping past, there just would have been one.

Yeah, skinny isn’t really the word, although I can’t think of the one I really want. Lean? Spare? Anyhow, I mean she’s in good shape, certainly not stout.

Fan theories about what was going to happen with Arya this week were more interesting than what actually happened on the show!

Yes, I also thought it was a known thing — I remember reading about a study that asked incarcerated rapists to report anonymously on how many women they had actually raped before being caught, and the average was six per person. The study is pretty old — I think I learned about it in the early 90's, and I couldn’t…

Didn’t she go to rehab for a while after the shoplifting incident?

A lot of the parents do know what’s going on. It’s been going on in Hollywood forever. I don’t know if it’s okay to mention specific people, but the story is that Natalie Wood’s mom let people know if they would cast her in a role they could do whatever they wanted with her. There was one really brutal and terrible…

They are. In interviews, they don’t seem very upset about the death of their child. They just complain that they are being prosecuted by “big pharma” as part of a ploy to make money off of vaccines.

I thought that too. But man, she also looks scared of her father. It’s disturbing.