Not quite investigating serial killers, but definitely investigating serious criminal shit, Ozark's lead investigator is rather of matter-of-fact-ly gay, and the only other investigator you really get in the show is also gay (they happen also to be very much estranged from one another with absolutely no hope of…

In the old days, you'd have had Brian Dennehy or Richard Crenna or Warren Oates or even Louis Gosset, Jr., to class this stuff up.

Marvel is just, as we can both appreciate, one of the easiest ways to approach the subject as we get a sense of starting and developing salaries based on results, popularity, etc. Oscars are also notoriously difficult to measure: probably 70% or so see improvements to their salaries in the projects immediately…

For any job, there are places where a Walmart greeter can pull in $60,000.

If (if) they're paying that much, the cost of living must be insane. But, yes, I guess it all comes down to grabbing one of those very, very, very few jobs in a wealthy area with such high education-spending focused-on -teachers situations. Surely, that's the way: just, [if] "you're underpaid as a teacher[,] find a…

So, yours is very, very, very much an exception and by no means the standard….

Field is still acting, but there just aren't as many parts for actors of her age. As for the Oscar, there tends to be a sort of 5 year grace period where the Oscar still seems to matter for salaries, but take that with a grain of salt. As for Larsen, I suspect it will matter when she signed her contract, if it was…

Most tenured professors I've known were earning nowhere near that. So, methinks such numbers for a school are, to put it mildly, highly frickin' dubious. By which I mean, "Queen Elizabeth is actually a lizard-person" dubious.

Can be a mixed bag that. It sure hasn't helped F. Murray Abraham or Cuba Gooding, Jr., or Roberto Benigni or William Hurt or Jean Dujardin or Adrien Brody. Similarly, I doubt Ellen Burstyn sees much remuneration for her Oscar anymore, nor does Sally Field or even Jessica Lange. Marlee Matlin almost surely doesn't,…

I dunno… How about that Rob Schneider earns any money at all?

Although, if I recall correctly, Evans, Holland and Hemsworth all got relatively little in terms of salary for their first outings, with their salaries growing massively after that. Brie Larsen may actually have ended up commanding more than Boseman simply due to greater name/face recognition and so forth. The…

All of this is, pretty much, meaningless, save for identifying who made the most money in this particular period. There are far too many factors which would account for the people, both male and female, earning what they made and why (# of projects in a year, nature of those projects, proven box-office pull,…

That great little look as he tried to conceal being a little bit aroused by the man-on-man action on the tennis court….

The AVC: Where we're so fucking desperate for any form of clickbait we'll even do a posting grafting onto a 20 second thing for Sesame Street…

I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him where he didn't look either terrified or at least profoundly uncomfortable.

Fewer tits. Remember, they're quantifiable. ;-)

Antony and Cleopatra is even more bizarre in that regard.

Meanwhile, some dickhead over at (surprise, surprise) The Daily Caller went after Barron for dressing like a kid. Yup, it went after an 11 year-old for dressing like a kid.

It has been ages, it seems, since Damages ended and, oddly, it feels further in the past for me than a lot of shows well older than it. I can't say why that it is exactly, but maybe it has something to do with the show seeming to be encased in a very culturally-specific time-frame.

The interesting thing, I think, is that Homecoming is still at #7, where it was last week, while quite a few things released since its debut have fallen away. Sure, it had a precipitous drop after its huge opening, but it has proven relatively durable, more or much more than, say, The Dark Tower, War for the Planet…