Maybe they just picked cities that still have book stores.

I would see "Paddington Bear vs the Ninja Turtles"

If I've learned anything from listening to jazz, it's that all the really cool people are smackheads.

I'm glad the RNC has it's pulse on the true national priorities, as always.

But he's so debonair!

I haven't seen any of the films, so I was limiting my comment to the book. You may be right about the films, and personally it doesn't bother me if a film adaptation has a different vision or POV than the source material. Ultimately it has to stand on its own.

Same here. Loved Harriet the Spy! As a boy, I never had a problem reading books with girl protagonists, but Judy Blume books were considered decidedly girly. I guess because of themes, more than the gender of the author or protagonists.

That was some grade-A concern trolling by Whoopi.

I'm curious about this conspiracy to remove Bibles from hotel rooms. Is someone pressuring the hotel management to remove them, or is some masked atheist vigilante actually sneaking into hotel rooms?

So, I wasn't following the Rolling Stone U-VA story very carefully. My impression was that some details of the accuser's story have been discredited (she was maybe at a different frat house or it wasn't an official frat event), but not the entire story itself. Is that accurate?

But what's cool about Hobbit (the novel) is that some epic stuff happens around Bilbo, but the story itself is not an epic.

I liked it, but that middle hour really dragged.

Just the phrase "Atari Superman game" brings back a vivid memory of the awful sound F/X that sounded like a Milton Babbit composition.

Will have to check this out. My daughter likes superhero comics and just discovered princesses. (In her world, the princesses are basically superheroes. They all have super powers, like Rapunzel can grab people with her hair.) The beheadings might be a little too intense, though.

Then you weren't on Slate (good call). But there were people on the teevee saying he only died because he was fat.

But not the gay children, because that ruins the narrative.

i.e., The kind of people who think that G-rated is incompatible with LGBT content.

I can think of several prominent films that feature white actors.

I liked the first Underworld film, I thought it was just operatic enough (perfect description) to be entertaining. The second one overdid it.

This makes me want to see them. I usually figure that "franchise" films are going to be awful, even as genre exercises.