It's "kinda" like her personality?? Because if I were going to go through the trouble of a first-name change, I would pick something that I felt a little more solidly tied-to. Not something that only occasionally applies, like "Asleep" or "Cranky" or "Feels Like Salmon for Dinner, Maybe"

I think there's a law that this biopic can't be mentioned without bringing up the coolest bit of related trivia: that Patsy Kensit played Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow's) little daughter in the 1974 GREAT GATSBY movie. WEIRD!

Also, that bag is not small. Is the baby meant to be carried IN the bag? Does he shove it in some kind of baby hope chest and wait until he's old enough for a murse? Or—God help us—is that a diaper bag??

God, amazing. Just the BRISKNESS. "Yep, yep, yep, yep, all right, here we goooo....THERE, now we're all squared away."

Are there people who actually listen to Meme Roth? I thought she was basically a sideshow act.

"Tinkle: don't worry, it only sounds like a package of pee!"

Actually, no. Being honest, I would not expect that a female celeb would shave her face. But there's always something new to hate about our appearances, I guess!

Huh. You know, I certainly was not saying that the qualities of softness, paleness, or sweetness are somehow inherently uncute, which I feel compelled to explain because I hate the thought of insulting someone. But at the same time I resent this feeling of needing to explain because I can't imagine why it would seem…

That colorism existed in East Asian countries prior to the 1500s(ish) does not make it a static phenomenon that continues to exist entirely independent of racism or the "pervasiveness of whiteness," with absolutely no crossover whatsoever. This conversation also began as a discussion of two very specific things:…

Yeah, or possibly blaming the studio for not promoting the film as having been made for a female audience, even though that's what he (seems to think he) did.

I really would disagree that this is not very much connected to overvaluing whiteness and a western ideal of beauty. Particularly in this case considering (to throw in another variable) the prevalence of things like eyelid surgery in J-Pop and K-Pop.

"Soft, pale, and sweet." Valuing paleness is the very essence of colorism, and colorism is grounded in the same nasty attitudes that form the foundations of racism & white supremacy.

Well, I'm sure his current kids care if he's a good father to them. We should all hope that he's a good (i.e., non-abusive) father to his currently-minor children. It's just that that doesn't erase things that might have come before. You can't say of someone "sure, he murdered someone, but I know of a whole bunch of…

Is there some point after which you're no longer supposed to hold your parents' hands? Sometimes I still hold my folks' hands, and I'm in my 30s.

I remember what a hard time my Japanese-American friend got every time she went back to visit—she was thin as a rail, but also unusually tall (5'8") and had broad shoulders. She was constantly harrangued by her relatives about her physique—both the number on the scale (as if a 5'8" woman should weigh the same as a…

But "soft, pale, and sweet" is kind of why it's not cute. It's overvaluing childlike, yielding simplicity. And whiteness.

Yes, and then also to say, if we have to assume personal culpability for all the terrible things our ancestors might have done, can we also take personal credit for any good things they might have done? (people do this all the time, of course, but they should stop it.)

Yeah, I can only hope they just arrested her in order to hold her while they sorted through the situation, and then dropped or will drop any charges rather than prosecuting a child victim of sex trafficking. Which is about as absurd as arresting a mugging victim on the charge of carrying a wallet.

I'm mostly distracted by the fact that the linked NYDN story on the matter refers to her as a "starlet."