That and the animated portion. She loathed that part, going so far (if I recall correctly) to demand its removal. Interestingly, she didn't mind Julie Andrews (except for being too pretty) and mostly blamed the writing and directing.

Anastasia was Don Bluth. That was his "I give up, here's a princess" movie and sadly also his highest grossing film at the box office, probably because princess. If it was Disney, there'd have been more talking candlesticks, fewer singing bugs.

Pfft. It's all Dageurroshop.

The Mary Poppins books paint quite a different and much harsher picture of the character than the film, which Travers hated. I'd say Travers sounds about as dark as her original creation. Disney: shaving off all the hard edges since forever.

I would add that Chris Brown's problem is also one that has only recently been created: social media. It's easy to bring up the horrific abuses that men like Charlie Sheen (shot girlfriend 1990), Sean Connery's Playboy interview (1965, just search for "bitch"), or Sean Penn (arrested for domestic violence in the 80s) …

It's not UC's fault, all the graphic designers showed up to the interview in pants and boxy shirts. Who would ever hire those people?

Pleasantville was a different animal. Grease revels in its camp nostalgia of 50s youth culture, Pleasantville is about deconstructing the nostalgia of 50s television. There's a scene where Reese Witherspoon tries to use the bathroom only to discover there are no toilets, all because you couldn't show toilets on TV at…

I'm waiting (futilely, which I why I only look at screen caps) for someone to show up in full on Jem drag. This show is all Molly Ringwald, no Phyllis Gabor! You picked the 80s, TV execs, now embrace it.

This show is designed by people who want to be "80s" without the humiliation of looking like the actual 80s. It's Leave it to Beaver 80s. A nice, wholesome, pallid finish to pretend that all the really crazy stuff didn't exist.

Fine with me. Given what horrible, nasty, self-absorbed characters those sisters were, they can't make them worse people.

There are often different laws for kids, it pays to be up on what they are. One city I lived in granted anyone aged 12 or younger could be on sidewalks on their bikes. Where I am now, anyone can ride on sidewalks in residential neighborhoods but are forbidden in commercial districts. It's a pretty hefty fine ($120)…

It's unfortunate that a lot of lower price point helmets are both terribly uncomfortable and pretty stupid looking. A decent helmet can easily start at $60 and go up from there. If you've got a lot of hair it can get even more difficult.

Gold star to whoever puts together the best evening wear look using these "pants."

You mean the Pornaroid?

People have been writing each other sex letters for hundreds of years. History is full of erotic letters and stories of family members burning piles of letters because someone was mistress to someone famous and quel scandale if anyone ever read the smutty things. Every method of communication people invent will…

Men must be so relieved they don't have to buy such effeminate things as "candles" and "sandals." How they must long for the day when they can don T-murts, mants and broats so they can take the brold of the coming autuman with dignibromany.

I was going to ask if "mandals" was sandals for men or scented candles for men and then I actually typed it out and realized where the subtle spelling difference were. So much for the new leather-scented branch of the Mankee Mandle Shop.

I for one welcome the new word. Now we have terminology to describe this incredibly unique set of male grocery shoppers who before were lumped into the emasculating group of "shoppers." Can you imagine how demeaning it was to be called a thing that didn't have the word "man" or "bro" in the title? Being a "shopper"…

I thought that was the case they would make, but the linked article doesn't talk about that at all. It's really all about subsidizing egg freezing for people who "might think about it someday but are too busy being single and carefree right now, hollah!" or "my boyfriend isn't marrying me fast enough, I should get…

I'm more curious why French, Spanish and Italian aren't covered by "European."