Dabier wasn’t actually an extra; he had a bit part/small supporting role in an episode. It makes sense to me that extras would be separated from main cast, but less sense that they would separate main cast from supporting roles.

Not Dr. Luke—Kesha’s lawyer tried to imply it was Dr. Luke early in the Kesha/Dr. Luke case, and Lady Gaga said it wasn’t him.

There’s already been a lot of speculation about who it is, with one name consistently coming up. She’s given some identifying details in past interviews. If it’s the guy whose name keeps coming up, he no longer works in the producing industry. He more or less disappeared off the face of the internet a few years back,…

After the Kesha/Dr. Luke lawsuits, there is zero chance of that happening any time soon. Those made it 100% clear how much you have to lose by naming your abuser.

Also, in order to sell the plot, Evan has to read as believable as a high schooler. Because a high schooler doing what he does is bad but at least somewhat believable. An adult doing what he does is sociopathic. If his character reads as an adult, it cuts a lot of the audience’s sympathy for him.

Charlene Friend and Jill Jones have both referenced him being physically abusive. There are lots of other stories from various people about him being controlling and emotionally abusive. (Some of Charlene’s claims are pretty over the top, but given the number of people who have echoed stories of his abuse and Prince’s…

But regardless on where you stand on the polarizing character, we think all O.C. fans can agree that her death on season 3 was the show’s most tragic moment, and marked when it all started going downhill.

Also, the entire Republican push for increasingly restricting voting rights is designed so that it doesn’t matter if a policy is unpopular with the American people—it only matters if the policy is unpopular with the ones who are actually able to vote. Who are going to be, if the Republicans succeed, disproprotionately…

No—first, because abortion will remain a viable wedge issue even if Roe is overturned. Roe being overturned wouldn’t make abortion a non-issue, it would just change the parameters of the issue. Instead of “overturn Roe” the framing now would be “Can we make abortion in X state illegal even earlier? Altogether? Can we…

I thought he was the most likely winner, but not a shoo-in like most people apparently did. He didn’t win at the BAFTAs recently, and there had been some talk on Twitter about some voters being hesitant to vote for him for various reasons.

Frankly, if I was in this match-up, I’d rather be In the Heights. Between “the legacy of the original West Side Story” + Spielberg + $100 million budget + Christmas release, I’m not sure how it can meet expectations ... and the mostly white creative team doesn’t augur well on that front. ITH has an easier bar to clear.

Ford doesn’t own the franchise.

Just do what the most successful film franchise ever did for 40 years, and just cast someone else in the title role & keep going.

It’s standard with teen magazines, though, because it’s hard to find people who are older but still in step with what teenagers want. Welteroth was 29 when she became EIC there; Lindsay Peoples Wagner was 28.

It’s confusingly worded enough—and a confusing enough concept—that I don’t blame anybody for not catching it when the interview was originally airing. But it’s clear from the part of the transcript I quoted that she’s referencing “when Harry’s dad becomes king.”

Also—

The HR department that made such a big deal of investigating a three-year-old bullying accusation is the same HR department Meghan said ignored her request for mental health help, which makes that whole pre-emptive leak look even uglier, in retrospect.

We were talking about Archie’s title and/or loss of security, which took place when he was born. We weren’t talking about the Sussexes’ security, which is an entirely separate subject and a discussion that happened at a completely different time.

The incident we were discussing took place when the Sussexes were working royals and intended to continue to be. I’m not really sure how your post fits into that, given this.

While Beatrice and Eugenie were relatively high in the line of succession to the throne, they were pretty low in the line of working royals, with the queen and Philip, all the queen’s children and some of their spouses ahead of them at the time, plus Will and Harry beginning to start their own families who would…