Eh, it was refrigerated cookie dough from a tube, so not as interesting as it sounds. And I gather from what I've read elsewhere that the "treating people like shit," was a big part of it—his reactions to those who didn't want to play those games, or his tantrum when they couldn't find the aforementioned tube of…

*insert obvious "Soul Food" joke here*

Yeah, Time magazine ran a pretty big article about CoS being all about money for the higher-ups in 1991; I think that was the first real expose. A few years later, Mark Ebner did one for Spy magazine (RIP, sigh) called "Wanna Buy a Bridge?" which I think was the first time a journalist had actually gone inside the…

It's really a shame, because I agree I've never seen a bad performance from him (even in roles for which he seems deeply unsuitable, i.e. Lestat or Jack Reacher) and I find him immensely likable on-screen, but off-screen…yech.

Mine, too! It was really amazing, wasn't it? Like, damn, Katie, that was some slick escaping-the-gulag shit right there; not only did she leave, but she went all the way to the other side of the country.

That is so wise a piece of advice that I'm ashamed to have never thought of it myself. Kudos to you, good sir (or madam)!

Please tell me "waiving" is a Freudian slip, because she's waived her right to freedom and independence and all of that.

Death?

I remember reading last year about the CoS's campaign against Going Clear wrt Oscar nominations; there was a strong buzz that it would get one, but Academy voters were getting phone calls basically "encouraging" them not to vote for it, because the callers didn't want the voters to find themselves having difficulties.…

Exactly.

You're braver than I. I've never been able to bring myself to watch it again—I thought it was an excellent film, but I left the movie theater feeling physically ill. Renfro's ice-cold "You have no idea what I can do," to Schwimmer at the end still gives me the chills.

One of the two anchors of one of our local news programs was black, and one of the regular reporters was a black woman. That was in St. Louis, from at least the mid-70s on.

Especially given that not only was Fuhrman's racism exposed, but his willingness to perjure himself and the prosecution's willingness to allow him to do so. Once you prove to the jury that you're willing to lie to put a man behind bars, well, why expect them to believe everything else is true?

That was my thought at the time, and still is. The fact that his son was so brutally murdered was and remains a horrendous thing, and I don't blame or fault him for his anger and grief. But it did get irritating to the point of being tremendously disrespectful to the families of other murder victims to hear him…

*bow* Thank you!

"Lazy due to greed," was bad phrasing on my part, sorry about that. But the line in the review clearly implies that he's not making an effort in a role he took just for money. So "lazy," and "greedy," are both there.

I always thought it would be really messy, too, but it's like—forgive the analogy—there's a cat flap or something that holds back the blood while the act is taking place. At least in my experience.

Or "Brown-eyed Girl."

Because it's not all about you and your tastes, maybe?

Oooh, that would be a good one!