Nope, readers hated it just as much then as they do now! (I said this above, but the first and second halves of Little Women were originally published as two books—they still are in some countries—and after book one, so many fangirls wrote to Louisa May Alcott demanding that she hook Jo up with Laurie after all that…

Ellie and Sean!

Rhett had that streak of self-denial where he would have stayed away because he knew he could never actually make her happy.

I would watch a spin-off about the Baroness trying to find love after the Captain dumps her.

I think that's part of why book Ron/Hermione worked better for me than movie Ron/Hermione. In the book, you can see what she saw in him—she grew up an awkward-looking kid and one with no social skills to boot, he was sweet and silly and one of the few guys to talk to her when she had buckteeth and frizzy hair and was…

Jo and Laurie is another one of those pairings you want to happen so much when you read the books as a kid, but as an adult you can absolutely see why Alcott wrote it the way she did. Laurie was nice, but Jo needed somebody who could challenge her and bring out her best in a way that Laurie never could. I'm not sure…

Yeah, that was the right ending. It's a similar case to the Jordan Catalano/Brian Krakow choice for Angela—neither of them would have made her happy in the long run, because they each only tapped into one half of what she needed. Same thing with Winona's character—in real life, Ethan Hawke's lack of motivation would…

The most painful part of the series ending where it did was that they left it on a note where you could tell that the possibility of Angela developing deeper feelings for Brian was there, but you never got to see where that led.

The problem with Pretty in Pink is that it was made by former Duckies, and in line with the wish-fulfillment vibe of John Hughes' movies, they visualized the ending as wish fulfillment . . . for Duckie. Unfortunately Duckie wasn't the protagonist, Andie was, and Duckies weren't the primary audience, Andies were. There…

In regards to "maybe that's just how the world of dancers works"—it wasn't exactly uncommon, but it wasn't the norm by any means. And even if it had been the norm, that wouldn't make it any more okay that Fosse did it. This was in the midst of the second wave; it didn't take a moral giant or somebody vastly ahead of…

Yeah, my problem with Astaire is that he never wanted to act. He plays roughly the same character in most of his films—the smooth-talking, happy-go-lucky swell in a tuxedo who truly believes he can talk his way into anything he wants and who can simply glissade past any difficult. He wants to make it all look easy—not…

Astaire was of course the better dancer—one of the best of all time, in the movies or no. But if you've seen Fred's performances with other dancers, it quickly becomes clear that partnering Astaire was a job in and of itself, and Ginger does that beautifully. (Astaire himself was quoted as saying she was the only…

Top Hat is the better movie but Swing Time has better dancing.

Gideon's girlfriend was played by Fosse's real-life ex-girlfriend, Ann Reinking. They'd broken up less than a year before filming this, I think. That's a hell of a role to play—basically playing yourself in a deconstruction of the failure of your own relationship.

Gay men in Hollywood still have an incredibly hard time getting leading roles, especially leading roles that require them to romance a woman. Coming out essentially relegates you to supporting roles for the rest of your life, even if you'd been doing leading ones previously.

Yeah, I read that and immediately scrolled down to see if I was the only one who was getting dog-whistle sexism out of that.

I'm pro-equality on all fronts! Including the right to use a national tragedy to make an ass out of yourself.

Cool, all dudes. If you'd wanted to include a token female on the list, you could have gone for Jessica Simpson, who cites 9/11 as the reason for her reconciliation with Nick Lachey. Without al-Qaeda, we Americans would have never experienced the glory of Newlyweds.

I assume because the people who freaked out over Rue did so after they saw the movie, not so much after casting was just announced.

Probably not. Blackface had pretty much been phased out by that time, but white guys playing Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans was still fair game until . . . at least the late '60s. (Along with Hispanics playing Asians and American Indians playing regular ol' Indians and vice versa because, of course, all the…