There is magnificent beauty in the world. Jerry Seinfeld, of all people, is the latest to say this, when he had on Tina Fey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, respectively, in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Both episodes are blasts, and both women, sans Hollywood makeup, are stunning. Funny, warm, quick-witted, gorgeous,…

Trump's campaign already in late August:
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Hey, Surface buddy! We should start a club: Surface to Surface. We'll figure it out later.

Welcome. It's a snappy reminder to see a lot of great films.

The end of the piece is unsettling, without using those hated tags. One of King's academic critic's from another school strongly said on Twitter that she should be fired, but if the value of her scholarship is great, one mistake, even a big one, shouldn't sink her.

I don't remember that in Borat; been a while. SBC was a history major in Cambridge U, if he ever studied early Christianity.

Eh, don't waste your emotional energy. People are stupid.

Nah, it's not that. Teenage me liked it a lot. I haven't thought about the worst film to win an Oscar. Even the undeserving ones weren't outright terrible.

Yep, I was pretty surprised by that turn. I guess now with the attention they can't do that anymore.

I would even submit that his IQ was only low because they said it, and not because of what he did and how he talked.

I was surprised to see this morning that YouTube's The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir, by talented editor, RubyTuesday717, had only 180,000 views, after being up for many years. So because Friday night Staff Picks always gets a lot of traffic, I'm passing it along. It's a fantastic collage of what film noir…

The marine version of this was also on NBC and introduced me to Lake Bell. To which I owe it thanks.

See, it's because teenagers already think that their mother is the worst. Well, teenage girls probably more than boys, who can hate their father through Grendel.

And the Christopher Hitchens' Online Comment Prize goes to, Excitable Misunderstood Genius! Your prize is brilliant rhetorical skill and a crate of scotch.

At first I thought he was being a misanthropic old man yelling at the kids today for their immoral debauchery, and doing it in the style of an amateur film maker who just knows how to rant, but not how to effectively convey his themes, but that's not what he was doing. But then I realized not to take it seriously, and…

I had heard the terrible reviews of Spring Breakers way before it was on cable one night and I decided, "What the hell; I'll see how bad this is." So I started watching it biased already, my first Harmony Korine film, and when it got to Franco repeating "My shit!" many times, I realized my reading of it was as a meta…

"Good boy!" he says every time.

I don't mind sharing that, because I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, I've had this fantasy, in human form, where I as a different kid meet my much older family members. Just in terms of a story from that family member's point of view, it would be interesting, and probably has been done much in fiction that it's become…

Well, we're supposed to be smarter and less self-centered than that. I'm not that optimistic actually, on this issue, since women's rights are still, even in first world advanced democracies, relatively recent, and sexual violence— and its attendant victim-blaming and misogyny— is still a huge problem around the…

Perhaps he thought that her "lying" was especially awful since it discounted real cases of abuse like his, and that's why he was so vitriolic. I don't know.