Yep. It may be true that “if there’s a villain, it’s Iceman, whose only real sin is acting like a bit of a pompous dick,” but Maverick’s a pompous dick, too. The only real difference is that he’s right kind of pompous dick. Pompous dicks that are cool (See also Bueller, Ferris) are always better than nerdy,…

I never realized how easy it is to sort action stars into these categories. Charles Bronson and Steven Seagal are wife/ daughter brutally raped and murdered guys. Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone are friends horribly killed guys.

Agreed. When I first saw the previews for the movie, it looked like some bland fantasy story invented in committee (It’s been awhile since Romeo + Juliet. Will the teens still come to the movies to see Claire Danes? Okay, good. Children are a given, but what about their parents? *Writes down figure.* Think DeNiro would…

IMO, The Princess Bride is far better as an adult. I saw the movie several times as a child and absolutely hated it then. I could tell that something about it was off. I knew it wasn’t a standard fairly tale, yet I wasn’t old enough to get what sort of tone the movie was actually going for or why that annoying kid and…

This article is all true. Yes, Sorkin definitely used the SN finale as a big middle finger to his corporate overlords, but neither the plot nor the finale really feel off because of that fact. The Sports Night (the show within the show) folks were always underdogs. They were third or fourth-rated among sports news…

Yes, if Sorkin hadn’t moved on to The West Wing. The second season of SN wasn’t as good as the first since Sorking was writing for both shows at the same time and obviously putting more effort into his new baby. Both shows were still remarkably good considering, but there’s no way that Sorkin (or any other mere…

There’s nothing wrong with owning books that you haven’t read, but in the context of Gatsby, books (at least the expensive kind that would have been in Gatsby’s library) were generally kept for life and probably even passed on to the owner’s children. It was assumed that a person might want to reread favorites and…

I once found a decade-old library book with a single uncut page (or is that two uncut pages?) that I ended up cutting. It shocked me that uncut pages still existed in the 2000s, and I felt both happy and sad that I was the first person ever to read those pages. Also, I felt like a character out of a Dostoevsky novel…

He-Man is definitely an ‘80s cartoon, too, but the timeline here feels a bit odd to me. I’m old enough to have enjoyed both ‘80s (He-Man/ The Real GBs) and ‘90s (Darkwing Duck/ Captain Planet) cartoons, but Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers was for younger kids. I watched it for a few months, but only because there was…

Also, rich people with taste generally have enough of that taste not to display their houses on Lifestyles of the Rich an Famous, MTV Cribs, or, of all places, TikTok.

This breed of library puts me in mind of that scene in The Great Gatsby when Owl Eyes shows Nick Carraway that none of the books in Gatsby’s library have cut pages (i.e. They’ve never been read since books at the time had to have their pages cut open with a book knife to be readable.). You just know that Fitzgerald…

No. The wife is doing plenty for her husband (e.g. your example), but he isn’t doing much for her.

I mean, sure, once a week is once a week, and that’s a lot more sex than a lot of people are having (in or out of quarantine), but if more sex is possible, the husband should be up for exploring the possibilities, and if not, he should still be on board for helping his wife feel less stressed out.

I totally agree with Dan on letter #1 (Seriously dude? Do you want to get a divorce? What kind of crappy husband/ sex partner can’t do something that his wife likes in bed every now and then?), but letter #2? Dan’s missing the forest for the trees. The libido mismatch is obviously an issue here, but the real problem…

Gainsbourg strikes me as a Leonard Cohen’s evil twin. Cohen’s lyrics and singing are always the best things about his music, but the music and production aren’t great (a few albums, like Songs of Love and Hate aside). Gainsbourg’s lyrics range anywhere from meh to pretty good, but his musical collaborators are…

“None of them hold together as well as Melody Nelson, a record that encapsulates what makes Gainsbourg great: . . . his willingness to explore taboo subject matter without worrying about how it would make him look.”

I mean, personality flaws should count for something, too. Gainsbourg has his talents, but he was also prone to various forms of asshole behavior, particularly when he was drinking, which was pretty much always. The Whitney Houston incident wasn’t a behavioral fluke.

I imagine that it is. 50 Shades isn’t exactly highbrow, but it does nod to a few books classier than Twilight. James tosses in a few Jane Eyre references. Ana Steele is an English major with a love of the classics. And the occasional sophisticated literary devices sneak into the series (Christian’s former submissive…

I mean, people do break up with FWBs (or ghost them), just not in so many words. “How are you doing?” “Great, work’s been going well and I have a new boyfriend.” is a low-key FWB breakup. “I have feelings for you.” “Um . . . I don’t reciprocate. Sorry.” is probably a FWB break up.

I’ve known plenty of women who were willing to sleep with men who could care less about their pleasure, so that’s definitely not a surprise. But being selfish in bed is the least of this guy’s personality issues. The real problem is that he’s lost all real interest in the LW and refuses to let her know, even as she…