Because they will, no doubt, be dealing with a lot similar problems as male to female trans women, but in a jokey (and dismissive) way. Just like people were mistaking this for "homophobic", it's unlikely that most audiences seeing someone born male in female dress and make the distinction.

It's not homophobic - it's anti-transgender. I'm not excited about transgender people getting lumped together with gay issues - if you were born a man, but are actually a woman who likes men - then you are a straight woman. Not gay. Sure some gay dudes like drag, but many would never consider doing drag (or doing drag…

Let's not forget tennis player Chris Evert's episode, which featured the immortal "Lyle The Effeminate Heterosexual" sketch, the bizarro "Nude House of Wacky People", plus an ending in which Lorne Michaels sadistically gives Evert a dramatic scene that requires strong acting ability, then makes her sing, while…

I did the NBC studio tour years ago (I know it sounds kinda lame, but I did see Ozzy Osbourne, drunk off his ass, trying to slur his way through a Little Richard tribute for some Friday night music show they had back). The bee costume was with Eddie Murphy's Gumby costume in a display case near the back of where the…

Hollywood needs to commission some more kids out of the Fannings before it's too late. Dakota and Elle are just naturally great actors.

X-men First class was the first X-men film I straight-up liked. Magneto's conflict with Kevin Bacon's baddie and how it is resolved was the first time I found anything in an X-men film that was emotionally engaging and ultimately satisfying. Plus, it was Michael Fassbender playing the part, and that guy can do no…

Rebecca Romijn's cameo was one of the most clever uses of a cameo this year - surprising and made total sense in the context of the scene.

I'm surprised Melancholia and Beginners aren't getting more love. Ah well - at least Beginners will get more attention when Christopher Plummer wins Best Supporting Actor next year. It's going to be a tough category (John Hawkes will be a real challenger) but make no mistake - this will happen.

Maybe I've just seen one too many "CGI aliens attack" movies this year. The working class kids were new, and were sorta interesting, but the plot was too standard "run away from the monsters" business. Some competent action sequences, but (the kids aside) it wasn't bringing enough newness to the table to be considered…

Hated "Spanglish" - total rich white guy fantasy of "I have everything but I'm not happy - if only some poor salt-of-the-earth type would come along, inexplicably see my true value and bring happiness to my coddled existence".

Arguably, the drug in Limitless made the protagonist dumber. He was a writer and could have banked 20 masterpieces, released one a year and no one would have noticed his competitive edge. Instead he seems to make every decision on "how much attention can I draw to myself to all the crazy bad guys chasing me". Yeah, it…

Wow - I really can't get the love. It seems the classic example of an arthouse film where nothing happens and critics fall all over themselves praising it. There is almost no character or plot development - they start out lost and frustrated and pretty much stay that way after a shitload of walking around and pretty…

Well, the story's from the Bible - I hear that sells pretty well/ has a dedicated readership.

I look at it like how the Ed Sullivan Show's censorship of  the Doors "Light My Fire" thing was handled in Oliver Stone's Doors movie. They had to exaggerate it to make it work (Kilmer's take on "girl we couldn't get much HIGHER" was much bigger than Morrison's from the real clip). Doing it like Morrison actually did…

That's not the point - a movie made now has to create dramatic scenes out of this material for a contemporary audience. How do you sell an audience on the idea of, say Harry Belafonte singing a song while they play '68 Democratic Convention protest material in the background, is still dramatic? In that documentary…

It was more in reference to how self-congratulatory hippies are about their glory days. I watched a PBS show about the Smothers Brothers censorship fight last night and it was indeed VERY self-congratulatory. The old clips may have been shocking when new, but they seem so damn toothless now, that when they cut to the…

Albert Brooks was Albert Einstein??? Fucking crazy - I would have changed it too - who wants to live up to that?

Just a theory - but is one of the creators of the show dating a painter who is now on the P&R payroll? There are a LOT of wacky paintings this season. They're all pretty funny, but damn.

Bale's performance was a problem - too comic, too smarmy and arch. It was a parody of Patrick Bateman. In the book, the numbing descriptions of beauty rituals and 80s cheese rock are like a joke with a wind-up so long, its banality becomes the (pretty damn funny) joke itself. Bale delivered them like an actual joke…

I think those parts are important - Dunst's character has given up on the pretense of living a normal life. She claims to know what is about to happen before anyone and just isn't going to try to be a "happy bride" or "diligent employee". There's no point if everything is about to end anyway.