I would certainly agree with your assessment there. I think the issue is that in the interest of eliminating any possibility of the term "gray rape," a lot of commenters here are saying that if a sexual partner expresses any ambivalence at any point before giving consent, it's still rape. I'm a fan of "Yes means yes"…

How can we ever prosecute that? Plenty of sex that none of the participants would classify as rape still goes in the unenthusiastic/unsure category, especially among young people.

Ebert's been known to give very good reviews to Black-cast films, provided they're good.

True, but you'd like the audience to be able to get engrossed in the story without thinking "that's totally implausible!" every five seconds.

Oh, for real. You were just a few years too late for Frankie Avalon, Bobby Darin, Fabian, and the rest of those weenies, and just in time to listen to Donny Osmond and Bobby Sherman. Now THOSE were some real smokin' hep cats.

It sounds like she's saying that in casting, she's trying to create "this world" - meaning the world of the show - and that it's only once the project's in post that she's able to really compare it to "the world [she] know[s]".

A few of my friends were in the first few generations of kickstarter, when it was invitation-only and you had to know someone. Most of their projects were things like dance pieces, making records, etc. I think an actual public parade, birthday-themed or not, would count under a public event or performing arts piece.

Several tests I took on US and European History included the Titanic. It's considered a symbol of the era's opulence and part of a series of events at the beginning of the 20th century that dismantled the general certainty of the times. Also, a tremendous amount of wealthy and influenctial people were on board, and…

No, because sham acupuncture is a specific thing. Acupuncture is the insertion of needles in very specific locations in order to open channels and do a bunch of stuff involving meridians; sham acupuncture is insertion of needles pretty much randomly, with the purpose being to see if the actual practice of acupuncture…

Dude, that's a journal of integrative medicine. That's like saying "Oxen are great, it says it right here in Oxen Quarterly." And yes, evidence has shown that acupuncture reduces pain. But it actually reduces pain as much as or less than sham acupuncture, which is pretty much random needle placement - which seems to…

If you have a plethora of peer-reviewed, double-blinded, replicated studies that support the underlying theoretical groundwork of TCM, or at the very least show that it gets results better than a placebo or sham equivalent, please, I'd be glad to get more education on the subject.

Sadly, my wit isn't up to the task of giving that scenario the O'Henry spin it so calls for.

Sadly, my wit isn't up to the task of giving that scenario the O'Henry spin it deserves.

Trying to write about any medical issue from an almost exclusively TCM- (Traditional Chinese Medicine) informed position, without a BS disclaimer? Jeez, Jezebel, don't you know that it's all about Traditional European Medicine? You're supposed to bleed the postpartum mother until her humours are restored to their…

Yeah, he's totally doing it because the blogz told him to. Why else would hollywood powerhouses make decisions?

A friend of mine with not-terribly-impressive grades but a lot of creative endeavors made a fully-playable, well-designed, high-quality board game in which the admissions officers could play as her on her way to their university. She rigged the game so that it was impossible for her NOT to get in. And of course, she…

Wow, I never thought of it that way. Thanks for the insight! I'm very grateful to have received such incredible feedback from someone who has your extremely valuable experience managing large-scale, long-term entertainment projects.

It's not much more difficult to cast a show to be diverse (it's not), it's much more difficult to cast a show when that show already has an entire production machine in place, including several holdover castmembers, a clear tone, a target demographic, a writer's room, and a consistent audience and point of view.…

"Diversity" when talking about ethnicity & gender in casting is usually a pretty quantifiable thing, unless you start including the vaguely "ethnic" category. It's usually number of clearly-not-white people, number of women, possibly number of trans and/or openly gay people. Plus their screentime. So, saying that a…

He's been banned from appearing on SNL, and when he hosted the show in the 1980's he pitched a sketch where openly gay castmember Terry Sweeney had AIDS and had to show up to weekly weigh-ins where he kept getting skinnier. He's also been known to be sexist (see his dismissal of Jane Curtin's description of early SNL…