Yep. A young a-list actor once told me that if you want to be a successful actor in Hollywood today, of this generation, be British or Australian or have a minimum of 250,000 followers on Instagram. I've seen casting calls with exactly those requirements. And I thought, "fuck this, I'm going to Israel to have caché…

The DH rule is terrible.

I didn't much care about it while watching the movie, so yeah.

Also Eagle Scout. Also pissed.

He was everything you didn't like.

Donald Trump's Presidential speeches are about as relatable to teenagers as An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn was to people other than Joe Eszterhas.

Air Supply is not fucking yacht rock. Air Supply isn't smooth.

George Will would be fine if he just never discussed the present day.

I'd let him hear it, if only to serve as a story to explain to his grandchildren why he's got those weird numbers on his arm.

That implies he ever was in the entertainment business. He's no more of an entertainer than Bernie Madoff.

Yes but, as has also been noted, not inviting him would have been political.

Here's the problem with that idea– we don't have a huge colonial empire. "Metropolitan" America is a geographically contiguous and politically and economically integrated whole, with only a few proto-nations toward the west. Everyone is an American first. We have no powerful hostile neighbors or marauding hordes, and…

But who would conquer us? Do you really think the successor state to the US would be anything other than some modified version of itself?

I thought Dunkirk got that panic pretty well. I had a screenplay about 9/11 and the expectation by kids like me that that would just be every day from then on.

And that right there is how nostalgia works.

Reagan was Danny Ocean. Trump is the guy in the '70s flashback who just grabbed a briefcase of cash and tried running out of the casino.

Bingo.

Is it? I hear much of the propaganda against Nero is dubious. Caligula claimed to be a god and fucked his sister. That seems pretty Trump-y.

The past decade has seen the Mormons getting gradually pushed out of having quite so much influence. As one of the commenters on FB said, they've been pushing hard to diversify, and this was just a big jerk-off session for anyone who thinks (either disapprovingly or, dear God, approvingly) that the Boy Scouts are…

It's not toast, it's just regular bread, and happily!