Kay Kendall’s doctor told Rex Harrison she had cancer, but didn’t tell her. And then neither did Rex. (They weren’t even married at the time, just having an affair! He did divorce his wife after that, so he could be with Kay instead.)
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Yeah, I saw Superbad in theaters, and at the time, I thought it was funny but disposable. I’m surprised it managed to maintain the relevance it has. Booksmart feels much more posed to a) age better, one brief but notable plot line aside, and b) have new fans “rediscovering” it for a long time.
And the formula was already old when Superbad did it. American Graffiti, Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Can’t Hardly Wait, American Pie—the “last day/night of high school”/”one night in high school where everything changes” movie trope (and related variations) has existed as long as teen…
Booksmart wasn’t a flop; I’m not sure why the discourse around it has ended up the way it has. It made $27m on a $6m budget. That’s pretty great!
Actual screenwriters are saying they were offered more for scripts with fewer film credits to their name:
Unproduced screenplays are better than no writing credits, but they’re nowhere near equivalent to produced ones when it comes to what a studio is going to value as “experience.” The studio cares about what’s going to make them money. If you’ve sold ten scripts and none have been produced, then what they see is…
Yeah, and I can accept that TV experience doesn’t exactly correlate to movie-writing experience. But a) if experience is the key factor here, surely there’s enough overlap that it should count for something, and b) even if you remove that from the equation entirely, it’s a guy who wrote 2.5 movies versus a woman who…
Trying to justify it by saying these are “industry-standard established ranges based on experience” is especially fucked-up, given the strength of their resumes. He had one movie screenwriting credit and one “story by” credit prior to Crazy Rich Asians. She’d been writing for television for two decades. It’s a flimsy…
I’m gonna need us to get to a consensus on what “cancel culture” means, because at this point it looks pretty much like, “Some people unsubscribed.”
Her reactions re: sexual assault were just so bizarre it’s hard not to wonder where the hell they were coming from. I still remember that nightmare of a Dear Prudence letter where a letter-writer who was clearly suffering a lot while trying to sort out issues of consent with her husband, and Yoffe responded by…
Also, the entire gimmick of Christianity is that all you have to do is say you’re sorry, and it doesn’t count anymore.
They think marriage is going to change/fix something about their relationship, and it doesn’t.
This would be plausible if we’re only going by the text of the movie. But Tarantino was asked about it and said this:
Yeah, the response to his death was truly unnerving. A lot of people felt very comfortable taking his side without knowing anything about the allegations at all.
It is available, though, just not as widely available as it should be. GM added it to some vehicles in 2017, Nissan in 2018 and Hyundai this year. The general trend is toward making it an available feature. If it sells, it’ll be incorporated into more cars.
The re-examining of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast wasn’t even all that quiet—it was loud enough that Disney felt obligated to address it in the recent live-action remake. They definitely made an attempt to flesh out the romantic relationship more and explain why Belle would actually be drawn to the Beast in spite of…
There are easier technological solutions, I think—some new cars being developed have sensors that remind the driver that there’s still somebody in the back seat, for example. We just need to have that technology become standard, and unfortunately, older (and lower-tech) vehicles don’t have it.
No she was asked a question and answered it.
She is using the success and popularity of the women’s national team to argue that a women’s professional league should be given more money.
It’s probably not true that the movie paved the way for season 4. The movie didn’t make money. (Or to be precise, it made money in the sense that the fans donated its entire production budget, so anything after what the studio put in for marketing was pure profit to them . . . but it didn’t show it was profitable for…