I think "4.3 million followers" is the most depressing thing about all of this.

It's at least a little silly and archaic, because there are times when ending the sentence with a preposition will sound better than any other possible wording. But I still try to follow it to the extent I can, though I don't usually get too worked up about other people's failures to do so. (Failing to use "whom" when…

And their hats, right? I hate those stupid hats Bono and Rick Rubin are always wearing.

I considered ending with, "but for what, I'm not sure" to avoid that, but I didn't like it with the comma, even though it seemed like a comma was necessary. So I wrote what I wrote. Now, though, I see that I should have just gone with "I'm not sure for what," which would have been clean and simple. If I'd just taken…

What does ". . . Jack White continues his slow transformation into a hat-wearing record-industry barnacle a la Bono or Rick Rubin" mean? It sounds like criticism, but I'm not sure what it's for.

They write about professional wrestling here. There's your worst possible trash.

Yeah, I was sort of joking. The depth of the fandom — whether it's for SRK or Rajnikanth or whoever the current big Telugu star is — that causes people to pay that much for a ticket is incomprehensible to me. (But, hey, whatever floats people's boats.) I don't watch enough Hindi or Telugu films to have an informed…

I think Hindi films are different because there's something wrong with us Telugu folks.

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre . . . ."

My mom (who lives in an area with a large Indian community, within which is a large Telugu community) went on Friday evening and reported that the theater was packed. I'm pretty sure it wasn't an IMAX show. And apparently some of my relatives in other parts of the country have paid even more to see other movies in the…

Got it. Thanks.

Then how come Izzy seceded?

It's almost a chicken-or-egg situation. I think his stupidity feeds the stupidity of his voters, which feeds his stupidity. It's a circle of stupid, and the rest of us are all trapped inside, spinning around helplessly.

What does "four-wall" mean? And why was this movie suited for it?

My mother went to see Baahubali 2. Tickets cost $30. I have no idea why people are willing to pay that much to see a movie. But it certainly bumps up the per-screen average. (It does kind of blow my mind that it made more on its opening weekend than a heavily-promoted movie starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.)

I'm guessing they're the type of people who pay $12,000 to introduce themselves to younger, bikini-clad women on a beach. (And even better, a beach outside the reach of U.S. criminal law.)

Hey, when Darth Vader alters a deal, all you can do is pray he doesn't alter it any further. (He probably didn't have anything to do with this festival, though, since he died a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.)

I say the answer is Nobody, and if has to be somebody, it's George Martin. But I'm here to give some love to Billy Preston. I already loved them — they're Beatles songs, after all — but I've recently found myself really digging some of the songs he played on during the Let It Be sessions: I've Got A Feeling, One After…

I think the question was whether she's hot or not, not simply whether she's attractive. (The answer is yes. I once saw her on billboards in Italy, advertising perfume or underwear or something. The answer is yes.)

I've never eaten Hydrox — that bizarro version of Oreos — for that reason. The name sounds like something chemical.