I’m so happy that internationally beloved superstar Danai Gurira was added  as the 65th head to the already cluttered and ugly genre of posters for superhero movies.  We’ve come a long way. 

Okay. I just feel horribly, terrifically old that Wonder Woman 1984 and the current Captain Marvel set in the mid-90s are like, period pieces. Ancient yore from so long ago. Oh well.

‘A Fish Called Wanda’ remains brightly funny and silly.  

It does seem way before that, not that the dreary piece of shit wasn’t a blip that came and went because no one wanted to see it.

Maybe- I don’t know- Gambit just sucks as a character?

Opposition to “busing” was not about actual “integrated buses”, as LooseSeals seems to believe. It was a well-meaning but misguided project in public schools, basically to force white students in mediocre public schools to travel every day- “bused”- to travel every day to actually terrible public schools that were…

Do you even know what “busing” meant in 1974? It wasn’t about buses. It was about schools. A well-meaning liberal idea that was a failure of social engineering. (I say this as a liberal, honest. Busing was a terrible idea, bound to inflame.) I guess you won’t ever see my replies because I’m always in the grays. …

Well, it was a highly contentious issue. “Integrated bussing” makes it sound like you think it was about the buses being integrated, as opposed to the schools. White parents objected to their kids being involuntarily shipped to distant crumbling inner-city schools. Forced to go. This is not some wildly objectionable…

How would you feel if you were a director paid $50k to work insane hours on a film that by freak chance went on to make $75 million or more? And your contract gave you nothing of that huge profit?  

I think this story is interesting and important, also fantastically overblown, I thought Wolf Blitzer was going to have a coronary. (I only switch to Wolf because I hate Chuck Todd even more.)

Not a dry eye in the house at the Oscars when the audience of rich, famous, powerful, beautiful people sang along with Queen to “We Are the Champions”. Yes, we sort of know. 

I’m reading Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders, and it’s a trip. Experimental fiction with a supernatural element, it won the Booker Prize in the UK last year.

The third episode of Documentary Now!’s new season has Cate Blanchett parodying performance artist Marina Abramovic, and it’s pretty hilarious. 

Bert really shreds, even though it looks like he’s just standing there.

This is fabulous. Fabelhaft. The dude at 1:21 has such a look of Weltschmerz on his face.

Good stuff, thanks. About currency, was reminded of a million years ago (1984) I was 15 and on a class trip and wandered around Rome on my own all day. When it got dark, got a cab to my hotel, but panicked because I had no lira, only $4 US dollars. But the driver was glad to take them! A different time of course. In…

“When a man marries his mistress he creates a job vacancy.”

Reminding me of Gilda Radner’s Jewess Jeans ad. “You don’t have to be Jewish.. but it wouldn’t hurt!”

I should have added, “millions flushed down the toilet”. 

I can’t not stop and drop everything whenever Jackie Brown is on. Pam Grier gives a masterclass in acting, she brings subtlety and wit and tones to the role, this maturity. A woman who’s seen a lot and knows a lot and has been through things, but she’s not done yet. Her friendship with the white PI in smoky afternoon…