I saw Take in the Lead. In theaters. Solely for Lauren Collins.

I think what this article mostly glosses over is just how groundbreaking this episode really was. At the time, there were something like four TV episodes ever that showed a major character getting pregnant, deciding to have an abortion, and actually going through with it. (Maude, All My Children, the original…

Agreed—and I also don't think it's particularly fair to judge Degrassi on a one-off, because the show's charm comes mostly from how its characters evolve and are shown to be multifaceted over the course of multiple episodes. Like, I initially thought Paige was a condescending hellbeast, but after her rape episode, I…

SEANNNNNN. I don't know what it is about him, I don't even find him physically attractive, but I still want to bang him so hard. Or did when I was 20 and obsessed with this show, and Daniel Clark was 18 and that wouldn't have been totally gross and potentially illegal.

I don't think it's that uncommon. Gossip Girl had Chuck who was an attempted rapist in episode one, and he quickly became one of the heroes/most beloved characters on the show. And the most famous example is probably Luke and Laura's rape-to-true-love arc on General Hospital. It's bound to happen when actors transcend…

Both the 7 and 9:30 Friday showings were sold out in my city. There's only one theater in the area showing it (and only four times today), though, which might explain that.

Maybe it was just my era, but every single girl I knew had a copy of Mary Martin's version taped off TV in the '80s.

In the article where Kim originally mentioned the affair, she talked about one of the reasons that the divorce was taking so long was that they had so much art, music and books that they needed to get appraised in order to split it evenly. I think once you go from the point where you just say, "Hey, you take the shit…

I think you have to stop looking at Gawker etc. as news sites. They're not; they're just link aggregators with commentary, and that's all they're intended to be.

I don't think they "rotate at their convenience"—if you had the rights to a title that might convince more people to use your service, why wouldn't you make it available? I'm pretty sure Roman Holiday was one of the ones that they lost the rights to as 2013 ended and its contract was up; they must have negotiated a…

I feel like I'm always using the "Because of sexism" argument here, but I really don't think there's any way you can argue that Gone with the Wind was literally the worst Best Picture-winner of all time without it stemming, at its heart, from sexism. I've found many men don't really "get" Gone with the Wind because it…

I just discovered Three Coins in the Fountain was nominated last night, and did a double take. It's a totally watchable, very pretty film, but Oscar material?

There was also a "got it right and wrong simultaneously" selection in 1950, when they picked All About Eve over Sunset Blvd.

Nah, I don't think you're giving that scene enough credit. One of the things that makes GWTW (the book more than the movie) so interesting is its lack of any identifiable agenda. It's pure storytelling. Like, yes, people are absolutely right when they argue that it romanticizes the antebellum South—the way that the…

The 1950s into the early '60s had a solid string going on there. All About Eve, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Apartment, West Side Story, and Lawrence of Arabia all absolutely deserve their awards, and you can make a solid case for An American in Paris and Ben-Hur, too. Even From Here to…

It fizzled out about a year ago, around the time that Les Mis came out and did about $450m at the box office?

I think Around the World in 80 Days has mostly been spared from "worst Oscar winner" criticism because it didn't beat out any other nominees that were obviously better than it. The Searchers is clearly fantastic, but wasn't even nominated for Best Picture that year. The King and I was good but just as lightweight as…

Somebody should write a book on what weird Hollywood trends and neuroses led Oscar voters to pick what they did (your Titanic example, or Around the World in 80 Days winning out over worthier examples because Hollywood was freaking out about television and wanted to show off what movies could do that television—at the…

Ahem.

If you manage to make it all the way through Les Mis without crying at least once, I don't want to know you. It's so purposefully emotionally manipulative, but damn, if they don't know exactly the right way I want to be emotionally manipulated . . .