Fuck off with your shitty hard-right buzzwords. I’m sure Breitbart has a media section where you won’t hear from any scary leftists.

To be fair, if Christopher Lee wanted a part, you gave him the part.

Well, they set that part of the film in Nepal.  They could have cast a Nepalese actor, but they also clearly wanted someone famous and how many famous Nepalese actors are there?  My guess is zero (now watch someone come in here and be like “actually, Harrison Ford is originally from Nepal” or something).

I get the whitewashing concerns, but it was a damned if you do/don’t situation. Yes, casting an Asian actor would have been nice (preferable?), but seeing as how the character is inherently a mysterious and inscrutable foreigner who teaches the mystical arts I don’t know how they could have avoided the crude…

I’m trying to wrap my head around the sight of Prince and Sinead O’Connor involved in a foot chase through L.A. in the middle of the night and NOT have “Yakety Sax” play in my head when I do.

What did Woody Allen have to do with The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane?

Unlike you?

At this point, regardless of how anyone feels about Allen, it is the safest thing possible to say you regret working with him/don’t want to work with him now. There’s absolutely nothing brave about it. It’s like saying you don’t want to work with Bill Cosby.

“I refuse to work with Kevin Spacey!” Wow, congrats. So…

I think he still is.

Within social justice circles there are conversations about how call out culture can be vindictive and toxic. Because it totally can. Jon Ronson’s “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” addressed internet mob culture in pre metoo/trump days. People being held accountable for being harassers/rapists/racists/generally awful…

although she was “guilty as accused”, the situation around Alexi McCammond (almost Teen Vogue editor) was also pretty crappy, and really highlighted how some people would not accept anything but absolute perfection.

The logic the article uses in the “cancel culture is a myth” protest is also fantastically fallacious.
“X is problematic. X hasn’t been cancelled. Therefore cancellation doesn’t exist.”

The best episode of Community is no longer available on Netflix.

No matter how many times we say “cancel culture is a myth,” it doesn’t make it true. I wish we could just acknowledge that so-called cancel culture has some negative implications along with all the positive effects (accountability, etc.).

I’ve never understood how people shit on Tom Cruise and then are like “Well, I’m off to worship a God that lives in the sky and will return one day in a fiery judgement to kill everyone that’s not part of a our religion!”

“sexual misconduct” is the word bloggers and women use when they know nothing major or illegal has been done to them, but they feel bad about it, so it must be “wrong.”

You know what makes comedy shows even better?

For God’s sake, Sam, can we cut this nonsense out? The “backlash” to the new Disney ride consisted entirely of one editorial on SFGate before Fox News picked it up and ran with their brand new culture war football. There is no need to play their game. I don’t care what two people on some editorial webpage have to say:…

Yeah - I’m certainly in favour of telling more of her side of the story, and showing how awfully she was treated by the media at the time. She certainly shouldn’t be the villain. But when the writer of a historical drama goes into it saying their intention is to improve the public image of one of the individuals…

It’s so weird that being antisemitic is the only type of hate speech where you’re immediately forgiven for a half-assed apology!