Can someone explain Parker Posey's "damage" to me.  Apparently I'm as blind to it as Louie is.  She seems like a perfectly normal person to me, albiet one who seems to stand a little too close when talking to a new acquaintance.  Or is just being attracted to Louie right out of the gate the damage we're talking about?

Can someone explain Parker Posey's "damage" to me.  Apparently I'm as blind to it as Louie is.  She seems like a perfectly normal person to me, albiet one who seems to stand a little too close when talking to a new acquaintance.  Or is just being attracted to Louie right out of the gate the damage we're talking about?

Can someone explain Parker Posey's "damage" to me.  Apparently I'm as blind to it as Louie is.  She seems like a perfectly normal person to me, albiet one who seems to stand a little too close when talking to a new acquaintance.  Or is just being attracted to Louie right out of the gate the damage we're talking about?

I hadn't heard of them until this article, other than that I assumed that most dolls were ball-jointed; I guess that's not the case?

I hadn't heard of them until this article, other than that I assumed that most dolls were ball-jointed; I guess that's not the case?

Back in the 90s, I worked with a guy from Sheffield.  Granted, it's not Scotland, but even he could barely parse Bremner's part in Naked.  For anyone curious, we're talking about this: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Back in the 90s, I worked with a guy from Sheffield.  Granted, it's not Scotland, but even he could barely parse Bremner's part in Naked.  For anyone curious, we're talking about this: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I'm probably in the same camp as your sister, at least musically - I am, at this point, profoundly not interested in anything in the pop music sphere.  I still hear it, on radios or from friends who still follow stuff, but for the most part, I'm not hearing anything that makes me want to go out and find/buy more.  It…

I'm probably in the same camp as your sister, at least musically - I am, at this point, profoundly not interested in anything in the pop music sphere.  I still hear it, on radios or from friends who still follow stuff, but for the most part, I'm not hearing anything that makes me want to go out and find/buy more.  It…

I've always wondered: was Lou Grant, LA newspaperman supposed to be the same guy as Lou Grant, Minneapolis TV news producer?

I've always wondered: was Lou Grant, LA newspaperman supposed to be the same guy as Lou Grant, Minneapolis TV news producer?

I realize that academic feminism championed, maybe even created, the idea that anecdotal evidence is as valid as aggregate/statistical evidence.  But I still don't really understand how your personal experience relates to an article trying to decode an overall trend.  44% of the show's audience was still women, so…

I realize that academic feminism championed, maybe even created, the idea that anecdotal evidence is as valid as aggregate/statistical evidence.  But I still don't really understand how your personal experience relates to an article trying to decode an overall trend.  44% of the show's audience was still women, so…

I'm not sure if I buy that "women can't deal with unappealing portrayals" thesis either, although note that your personal tastes are pretty much irrelevant when we're talking about the consumption patterns of a whole demographic.  Unless you can demonstrate that you are somehow a perfect example of how American women…

I'm not sure if I buy that "women can't deal with unappealing portrayals" thesis either, although note that your personal tastes are pretty much irrelevant when we're talking about the consumption patterns of a whole demographic.  Unless you can demonstrate that you are somehow a perfect example of how American women…

Yeah, you're probably right.  I just looked at one movie randomly from the 60s - "The Great Escape".  Granted, the title sort of tells you what to expect, but the trailer really does lay it all out ( 
http://www.youtube.com/watc… ), including the climactic motorcycle jump at the end.  Yet somehow these old trailers…

Yeah, you're probably right.  I just looked at one movie randomly from the 60s - "The Great Escape".  Granted, the title sort of tells you what to expect, but the trailer really does lay it all out ( 
http://www.youtube.com/watc… ), including the climactic motorcycle jump at the end.  Yet somehow these old trailers…

I can believe it.  As I rarely watch trailers now, most often I end up seeing them after watching the film on DVD and deciding to check out the trailer in the extra features section of the disk.  I'm often struck by how the trailer would have wrecked much of the fun of the movie I just enjoyed had I seen it prior to…

I can believe it.  As I rarely watch trailers now, most often I end up seeing them after watching the film on DVD and deciding to check out the trailer in the extra features section of the disk.  I'm often struck by how the trailer would have wrecked much of the fun of the movie I just enjoyed had I seen it prior to…

I don't think seeing moments in a trailer really counts as a spoiler.  For one thing, for decades trailers were pretty plot free - they mostly relied on showing the general idea of the film (it's a western, it's SF), and who the big stars were.  Comedies usually got trailers with a few of the best gags in them, which…