Poor kid. I cannot imagine the paranoia/fear/anger that must be triggered in a young artist whose performance venue has been the scene of such tragedy, such horror. I keep thinking of the tailspin Amy Schumer went into after the cinema shooting during one of her films. It must take tremendous, unseen courage to move…

This entire paragraph was beautiful in its truth and brutality. Well done, Rich.

He was singing “Bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bra-ann.”

Off topic, but this is weirding me out.

I hate Annie Leibovitz and her ugly and boring brown filters. But will buy this VF - I’ll hunt down one with Carrie on the cover.

Charlemagne has been saying this forever and every he does a black woman is like hey I have a radio show/podcast/blog. Maybe you could promote me and I can be a voice. And then he yells at them for trying to get free advertising.

She’s a scientologist! I still can’t get over that lol

It is very very pretty (it’s custom McQueen if anyone is curious). I love how demure and appropriate is deemed “old lady.” She’s the Duchess of Cambridge at her sister’s daytime wedding yet some people would still rather see her in, IDK, a sequined cocktail dress at 11 a.m. Would that we all be old ladies who look…

My view as a prosecutor. I suggest a short but sharp jail sentence that makes him never want to go back. Then a lot of treatment.

This just proves that is the worst possible response.

When I was in college, there was a female middle aged registrar whose cubicle was covered in James Spader pictures. She looked like Spader. The Dean of Students’ secretary’s cubicle was covered in Jeff Goldblum pictures and frog figurines. I asked her if she like Goldblum for his frogliness? She angrily said “No, he…

My mom is 70 years old... if some smug bitch did this to her, I swear to god I would beat her senseless.

When this happened I felt visceral vicarious shame as a fat person who goes to the gym. I couldn’t bring myself to go into the locker room for weeks. Fuck this woman and her sorry excuses.

The poster is great but I can’t help thinking that she looks more like Mia Wasikowska and JLaw had a baby.

That poster is sweet as hell. Certainly a refreshing break from most movie posters we see nowadays.

(The 22 year age difference between the leads is a little ... ew. Unless the age difference is part of the story, but I sort of doubt it, because Hollywood: Where leading men keep getting older, but their leading ladies…

I don’t care how mind numbingly stupid this movie looks, I want to see it.

tfw you’re done using black culture for profit and moving onto your Colbie Caillat phase.

This is a really thoughtful, well-written piece. Young people are capable of consuming media critically, and for those of us who are adults (however much of a technicality that feels like) should be giving them the tools to do that, instead of simply hand-wringing over it.