There’s a lot of grousing about how this film isn’t getting the acclaim it deserves, that there’s a sexist plot against it. But why does it automatically deserve acclaim and praise? Greta Gerwig is a very talented actor and director, who’s had a pretty smooth ride as a high-end “classy” film-maker. We should feel…

This is really a superb article and an excellent read, thanks. Willa Cather was a really important American author, glad to see she’s being re-considered after a long spell of critical neglect.

Yep. If Biden’s the nominee, is there any chance people like Tracey here are going to get off their ass and vote for him, after writing this?   Nope, and this is why we’re going to have the tragedy of a second Trump term. 

It’s the inspo for my new screenplay, “Off the Turnip Truck”, about a naive young writer with a terrible drinking problem visiting NYC for the first time. 

In NYC, the only proper answer is a Kaiser roll.  Ubiquitous, flaky, tasty enough. 

She was just on the UK show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, where they have to sleep rough in the jungle and eat scorpions and shit. It’s probably from that.

Also robbed by Helen Hunt that year was Pam Grier for Jackie Brown. I mean, what were they thinking? Judi was so memorable as Victoria, Pam as Jackie.. does anyone even remember Helen’s role that year?

I was surprised at “There have been public allegations of sexual impropriety against actor James Franco stretching back for roughly the last five years, dating back to a 2014 incident”..

It’s a standard regular part of every Wiki Wormhole article’s conclusion. Which is an excellent series, thanks Mike Vago. “Things we were happiest/unhappiest to learn” is just part of the format.

Thank you. “Who is this mysterious Wendy?, I guess we’ll never know” is so bogglingly stupid it hurts my brain.

“Why men grate til they gotta be great.” Grate, as in, annoy and irritate.

I sort of guessed that Phoebe Waller-Bridge would get the relatively easy Rolls-Royce treatment on SNL. No heavy lifting. Which is fine. I really like her and sort of want to marry her- beautiful and brilliant. But don’t look too close- was Killing Eve really that brilliant? She didn’t even write on Season 2. I…

Jack Donaghy: “They like how she says, ‘ham’ “.

My best Joker was when I was a young kid in the 70s. DC did these 100 Page! Spectaculars! that they padded out with tons of reprinted comics from the 1940s. And early Joker really was murderously frightening, at least to a kid’s imagination. Really ghoulish and gothic in a way later decades didn’t capture. He was…

Don’t forget all the screaming ghosts that come with the auld house. 

Ha, speaking of 80s things and mannequins.. a few weeks ago after a few drinkies I was cruising old music videos on YouTube, as one does. And I commented, wow, “The Sun Always Shines On TV” (by A-Ha) still sounds good. But the video is terrible.” (The video is the band performing in a grand old church, the pews are…

Someone in comments at the DM wrote. “I have Slav ancestry. Nothing good comes from that part of the world.” Which is of course not true, but it was darkly funny and highly upvoted.

I also read that bone density is also unreliable for people with dwarfism- different growth rates or something?

Wow, it’s almost as if when you activate “Silence Unknown Callers” it does exactly that. I mean, if your courier or a friend using another phone is not in your phone book, it seems obvious that this is what happens. Why wouldn’t a person realize this immediately?  It’s not a glitch.

Yep. That’s what I was thinking, reading this; France remains a pretty conservative, uptight society. Americans and Anglos have this longstanding image of the France as a country of l’amour and sexual sophistication and libertinism, but that only extends to the benefit of men: a hypocritical tolerance of male…