I subscribe to the LA Times, one of TRONC's papers (God, the name and that corporate ad were astoundingly stupid and embarrassing). At the end of last year, they bought out more than 80 reporters and editors, including much of the book section and the paper's name columnists. Billionaire LA resident Eli Broad wanted…

More like one great mind types slower than the other. Me, that would be me.

Not-so-fun fact (which I'm sure every AV Clubber knows already): On the set of Kramer vs. Kramer, Hoffman, to get Meryl Streep very emotional for her scenes, needled her with her just passed boyfriend John Cazale.

Before California's primary, the LA Times ran a piece reporting that scores of voters who identify as Independents mistakenly registered for the AIP. "A majority of its members." They were confused about the word "Independent" in its name.
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Those are good reasons to hate it. Thanks.

Ideally, Platonically, "Justice is supposed to be based on evidence." In reality, it is which side has the more compelling, believable narrative—evidence playing a small role, emotions playing a large role (just like in politics and government). If you haven't, and it sounds like you haven't, watch FX's American Crime…

Which is what I said. The acquittal fit into America's racial narrative because of the racial history of the LAPD before the murder (and the police shootings and abuses of black people since then). Part 2 provides the necessary context: where police abused African-Americans and were never prosecuted nor found guilty…

Contrary hot take: No, George, don't finish the books. Die with millions clamoring for them. Everybody wants to be remembered with love at their funeral. But nobody realizes hate is just as good and passionate, and lasts longer. Make them hate you forever!

To add to what Jordo said: the film is a tragedy of the downfall of a very lucky black man who transcended the obstacles others of his race faced, to become successful and beloved, only then to have those latter things warp him (with a lot of help from himself) so that he became a murderer, shunned, and hated. His…

Reading Lucia Berlin's wonderful A Manual For Cleaning Women. One of the stories starts with a woman arriving in Albuquerque and deciding to score. She hooks up with a "big connection" named Nacho. Heh. Berlin died in 2004 and her stories weren't really known until this collection came out last year.

I missed that line. I saw her in the hospital and thought she was dying, coupled with Laurie saying "I'm so sorry" to her in the tone of a doctor who is delivering bad news.

Right now my favorite episode of the season. (Fish Out of Water was judgement-ally spoiled when I read Sepinwall calling it the best TV episode of the year before I saw it.)

Agreed. But Hollywood is conservative as an artistic business. The people may be personally liberal, but they're not going to endanger profits by putting on something that isn't generic, traditional shows that have made money in the past. As long as people watch these things, they'll get made. If people started…

Fourthed on it's very good. If it weren't, it wouldn't be getting this much critical praise. Critics sometimes fail to appreciate good work, and occasionally overrate something, but the latter is rarer than the former, I find. If many critics and the general audience loved something, there's something there they loved.

That's intriguingly vague, given that it's Paul Greengrass directing again. I don't think Tony Gilroy came back. I've heard mixed things that I guess boil down to your taste. But I'm in no rush to see it. They should have ended the franchise last movie.

I haven't seen the movie (though all the negative reviews make me want to, like a child who does something after being told not to), and don't know much about Harley other than she's Joker's disciple—worshiping him—so if you don't mind a question I can answer reading the reviews no doubt: how is she sexist? I'm just…

What didn't you like about it? It's not that cinematic, more like the play it's based on, I assume, but the three leads are fantastic. The husband-wife scenes are excruciating in their sadism. I hear the American version makes the husband less of a cartoon villain and adds in scenes that explain why she would marry…

How she uses "bump." But, sure, there's nothing specifically English about it.

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This looks like a doctor's patient has terminal cancer, and because he can't accept that, he turns to crime to help her? (Going the opposite way from telling the entire story in your trailer, being too obtuse in an incoherent manner is also not good.)