McAdams took a break for a year or two after she first became famous as well. I think her career never really regained its momentum (until the Oscar nomination, but now that momentum may be gone again). Which is fine - maybe she likes it that way and does not want to be a big star and takes these breaks on purpose.

I think of brown as her primary (natural?) hair color.

The good characters end happily (although we also see the lead protagonist's peaceful death a few years after the main events). I never thought of it as a particularly violent or gruesome story, but I never saw the (apparently) very graphic movie.

You're 42? That seems like a pretty broad definition of "millennial."

OK. I misremembered what happened and misread what you wrote as well.

Isn't the idea to beat the second-place player by one if he/she bets it all? I know there are more complicated bets in which you can try to protect yourself if you get it wrong, but this is probably the most common bet in such circumstances. (Or am I misremembering what happened?)

I did figure it out, but I upvoted you for "horse of a different color."

Do you think she even knows about that? I almost wrote that celebrities live in bubbles, but in this case it is actually more like the opposite - I doubt if the average person knows anything about these alt-right memes. We who spend too much time on the Internet are the ones in the bubble!

I always thought she was partially being mocked in that episode - not for the opinion itself, which the writing staff most likely shared, but for having it be a factor in choosing which restaurant to go to. Jerry (the character) seemed to feel that way, at least.

For non-American readers (if any read this thread) - how is Steinbeck regarded in Europe these days? I have read that his prize was very controversial and he was denounced as unworthy by the European press, which seems very strange from a U.S. perspective. Would that still be the case today? In the U.S. he probably…

It would be great/sad if she went on a run.

I think that is optional-ish, like all the various movies that start with National Lampoon's.

But doesn't he often take right-wing nationalist positions? (He was for Brexit, I believe.) I think on any issue he just goes with whichever stance is likely to get him more publicity.

What Mr. Black said. Every exaggerated cliche about the period, plus some extra ones he made up himself.

I doubt if she was putting in long back-breaking nights at the office, but my understanding is that it was a real job that she took seriously.

His book on the Middle Ages is authentically terrible, unfortunately.

It is confusing because a lot of the people who talked that way (Jackie, FDR, George Plimpton, Grace Kelly, William Powell, Katharine Hepburn, William F. Buckley) really were from the mid-Atlantic states (or nearby Conn. for the last two). But the origin is different. One means middle of the coast and the other…

I don't know. She went out and got a real job as a book editor in the 1980s when she could easily have coasted for the rest of her life.

Yes and no. LBJ was legally president the moment JFK died, just as an elected president automatically becomes president at noon on January 20, but the Constitution does say that all presidents must take the oath. When Warren Harding died, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in immediately by his own father, who was a justice…

Those Cuba documentaries are well-timed. Perhaps suspiciously so - did HBO succeed where JFK could not?