And in news getting significantly less coverage:

It'll go well with the horse's ass that's already there.

“isn’t the usual slop of original programming, reality/competition shows, and reruns”

Please keep your hands off this one, Zaslav.  TCM is one of the rare remaining cable channels that still feels like it still has a unique identity, that isn’t the usual slop of original programming, reality/competition shows, and reruns.  

it’s not like anyone would have been paid more if they didn’t use AI

Sure. But composers with a lot of Kontakt sound libraries really did replace orchestral musicians for a lot of low and mid budget work. Much less session work goes on for film and tv soundtracks.

That 2008 doc was directed by Leslie Iwerks, Ub Iwerks’ granddaughter. Her dad/his son Don worked for Disney until 1985. I thought I had seen her name on a documentary I saw on Disney+, that was “The Pixar Story.” Also, I didn’t know about Charles Mintz, but on a hunch I looked up the villain from Up (Charles Muntz)…

PBS’s American Masters series did a documentary on Walt Disney, and it conveniently mentioned very little of Iwerks. However, Bravo aired a documentary in 2008, “the Man behind The Mouse: Ub Iwerks”, which chronicled Iwerks’ career, from his first meeting with Walt and through their betrayal by Charles Mintz at…

As great artists he did. But he made it like he came up with the ideas and Kirby was just there to draw. Anyone who knows anything about those days of Marvel know that Kirby did most of the work. 

Stan Lee was a decent editor. Not a creator.

No he doesn’t say that but it’s certainly not an uncommon argument that’s been made in recent years, by commenters on this very website.

No shit it was great work. But Stan still was a credit-stealing bullshit artist who treated people badly at times. The way he treated Wally Wood and mocked him for wanting some writing credit was repulsive.

It doesn’t seem to me like Kirby ever claims that Stan did nothing? He’s just frustrated with the framing that Stan was *the* most important figure in the creation of these iconic characters.

Hackman would be better at giving the beating, and Murray would be better at taking the beating. Going through basic training will teach you to throw a punch, but having 4 irish catholic brothers will teach you to take a punch. Anyone’s game. 

Personally, I’m inclined to not judge people too harshly for not immediately denouncing people who are clearly close friends in their personal lives merely because the internet hordes are baying for them to do so. Leaving aside the fact that it’s easy to forget that we only really know these people through AV Club…

Exactly. One shouldn’t necessarily expect everyone else to see someone the same way.

I completely believe Robert Downey Jr. when he says that Mel Gibson helped him during the lowest points of his life and helped him get sober.

In the 90's, comics were far more popular than they are now. Page rates go down because overall sales are down, and they keep trending down. On the one hand, the comics industry isn’t just run by scumbags, it’s run by incompetent scumbags (after all, the Big Two didn’t have multi-billion dollar advertising campaigns…

Avatar: “But YOU won Best Picture!”

I wonder more what Captain America thinks of people being forced into camps and into an apartheid system, all after having their land forcible taken from them, and what anyone would reasonably expect to happen, in addition what little rights those people have being taken away for any reason and further kicked out of…