Yeah, and knowing how the middling and worse directors think is also very useful if the goal is steady employment - which is ultimately the best thing for an actor's career. Jobs beget jobs.

Especially when that person's supposed "type" role - the dad in Malcolm in the Middle - was against his usual type anyway.

I mean, yes and no. Think of actors like instruments - a lot of instruments (synthesizers, violins, brass if you include mutes) are incredible versatile, and can be used in a variety of different ways to evoke all sorts of attitudes, moods, and sounds. Other instruments (flute, contrabassoon, vibraslap, banjo) are…

Yeah, this is actually very useful stuff sometimes. A lot of actors don't have realistic notions of where they're employable and what they're best at, especially if they come from an anyone-can-play-anyone acting school. Of course, the best actors challenge type and will fight for unique roles when they think they…

I'd like to put MY stones upon her

"I've been guilty of not doing that." Read the article. He says it's something he's trying to do in his most recent film.

Step 1) Cut a hole in the box

Reports of the scope of this bill are overblown. It doesn't bar courts from halting sales; it stipulates that in the event that a previously-approved crop faces legal challenges regarding its safety, growers can continue cultivation. Basically, they don't have to shut down all operations while review is in process.…

Since his party affiliation isn't stated in this article, let's all play "guess-the-party-affiliation-of-the-insensitive-misogynist." I'll bet you can't guess!

zombie violinist = insert your own viola joke here

I apologize for the stridency of my post; given the progression of posts I took your agreement to be an expression of offense taken at the lumping-in of all religious people re: gay rights. And I didn't mean to imply that you personally were co-opting the discussion, so much as I thought the entire thread was.

I don't condense all religious people to Catholicism, I offered it as a scenario. I apologize if that's the impression that I gave.

Oh jeez. Find me allies of LGBT issues (real allies) who've ever changed their minds because somebody made fun of Christians.

Funny how when you get an enfranchised group telling a disenfranchised group how to engage them, it's always an issue of tone.

It bothers me when Christians co-opt LGBT rights conversations to talk about how offended they are. I mean, people making fun of your constitutionally protected, acceptably mainstream, on-every-street-corner-even-in-the-most-atheistic-and-gay-parts-of-the-country,…

Person who doesn't support basic human right because somebody else who supports that right thinks that tangential beliefs that person holds are silly: Not a dick

But they're not. In the past decades as atheists and LGBT people have become more outspoken and brazen, the number of religious allies has risen dramatically, the number of people who self-identify as religious/theistic has decreased dramatically, and overall public support for LGBT causes has mushroomed.

Songs aren't argumentative essays, they're everything from narratives to character studies to imagist poems. He's said as much that he wanted to fuse some of the smoothness and romance of r&b with the swagger and ethical ambiguity that's intrinsic to hip-hop. A self-justifying adulterer character would be pretty good…

I mean, if you're talking about non-representative demographics in media, it's not exactly out of left field to imply or to state outright that there are a ton of Jewish (religiously or just culturally) people at all levels in entertainment, way out of proportion to the general population. There are a number of…

It's not unnecessary. It gives an enormous amount of insight into what the power structures are, how the characters relate, who has which chip on their shoulder.