That's the bizarre part about his interview. Nickelodeon's emphasis on diversity absolutely encompasses the time period he was writing about. Kenan and Kel, All That, Gullah Gullah Island, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo—these all aired in the '90s. "Classic" shows like Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, and Alex Mack all…

I loved how you could tell just from the interviewer's occasional interjection that she was getting more and more annoyed with him but was trying to just shut up and let him run his mouth for the sake of getting a really amazing interview.

In general, stars (kid and otherwise) look a lot more glossy today than they did ten or twenty years ago, but Raven-Symone was a star long before she ever landed her own TV show, and had a history of scene-stealing in every show she'd been on prior to it. She was the closest thing Disney ever had to a sure bet. With a…

If I remember correctly, Walt Disney personally chose not to reference religion in his movies because he thought it would be divisive and potentially minimize their audience, especially overseas. This went both ways—you don't want to offend Christians by taking the lord's name in vain, but you also don't want to…

How do you feel about Rihanna, though?

I'd guess that her lawyer thinks that whatever evidence they have meets the burden of proof for a civil case but not a criminal one—which seems about right for drug/sexual abuse violations of this kind. Unless they're reported immediately, there usually isn't enough physical evidence to win a criminal case.

Fun fact: Kesha got a 1500 on the SAT (back when it was out of 1600).

The haters' commentary is often so dumb that I end up mentally arguing with them and liking the song they chose better after the column than I did before. So there's that. (I also usually end up disliking the hater afterwards, so if you're a celebrity, I would perhaps recommend against doing this column. It turns out…

Yeah, the song is pretty clear about our society being broken, inequality being a problem with no easy way to fix it—but the "pink houses" part of the song still says, "Hey, in spite of everything that's broken, people are still going out there and doing whatever crazy shit that makes them happy." Given that that's…

I think she's alluding to the sorta patronizing tone he has when talking about the black man and his slop-making wife, which is fair—a black songwriter probably wouldn't refer to it as "slop," for instance, so Mellencamp's attempt to get us to identify with this guy comes off a little insincere. But I did especially…

It sounds like the ex-wife only turned over the tape to the authorities, and it was somebody in the police department who leaked the tape . . . but even if it had been the ex-wife, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if you found out that your husband molested your pre-teen relative and then went on to molest…

The Fault in Our Stars' audience was more adults than teenagers, I think.

Green has been pretty honest about his own struggles with his mental health problems, ongoing anxiety problems and a nervous breakdown due to depression in his 20s included, so it seems like you might be misrepresenting his take on it just a wee bit here.

I actually kind of love My Girl 2, but only in the sense that you have to think of My Girl 2 Vada as an actual different person from My Girl Vada. It's kind of cute as a low-key, pre-teen coming-of-age/romance, but when you think of it in its context as a sequel, it's like they made an Old Yeller 2 where Travis goes…

I mean, the premise of the movie is that the lead is an older man working in entertainment who sets out to prove the young female lead is a liar, which, uh, is not exactly a situation Allen's unfamiliar with. That's obviously an unintended parallel, given the timing of the allegations, but I can understand why it…

Closure isn't real. When you go seeking closure, what you mean is that you want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with someone and they're going to say, "I don't know, you're just too good-looking and smart for me and I started to get intimidated. I think I'm just going to spend a year or two taking a vow of…

The only reason he was suing her was to make a strong statement that the rape accusations were false, so I don't see any reason why he would continue at this point. I'm sure she doesn't have the money to be worth suing anyway, and celebrities suing poor, mentally ill people into the ground has a tendency to look…

It didn't damage his career in the slightest because nobody believed the accusations in the first place. He had an alibi for the time when it allegedly occurred, and she was very clearly mentally ill.

I don't think it's difficult to tell whether a horror movie's creators expected their primary audience to be virgins or experts. I don't think it's terribly hard to tell who Tarantino's creating his movies for, either. That he makes his movies for people who understand his references doesn't ensure that those are the…

It's a misunderstanding of Dickens, anyway. Most of Dickens' readers read his works by installment (often sans spoilery chapter titles). When compiled into book form, it was assumed that most of the readers had already read the work in question—the long, spoilery chapter titles were added to help readers find their…