You may enjoy From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, not only because it’s a charming little book, but because the grammatical pedantry in it comes from the mouth of a 12-year-old (offered in service to her 9-year-old brother). Delightful!

Pretty sure a lot don’t go to therapy because they’re afraid of being reported, even if they’ve never acted on their urges in any way. From my recollection the legalities are really sketchy here. Not excusing what he did, but I think there are some fixes we could make in our mental health system to help people with…

If its the LL field, I think it is ... the reporting on this is a little unintentionally deceptive. The field backs up against a very large canyon area that people ride horses in and hike around in. He was back in the canyon area and out of view of the LL field - just sort of near it. So, it’s not like he was dangling…

I had a high school acquaintance kill himself in a very similar situation. There’s a real mix of emotions — as much as I’m angry on behalf of the children he hurt, I’m also grateful he can’t do it anymore and sad about the wasted life. I feel the same about Salling, though obviously without the personal connection. I…

How about we don’t shit all over the (largely young, queer, and female) population of folks who create fanwork so we can point and laugh at them while making actors uncomfortable? It’s really easy to not do that.

Caitlin Moran did this in 2013 and all it did was embarrass the actors and devastate the young woman who’d written what they were forced to read. It’s a shame that Page Six (and AVC) didn’t learn the lesson five years ago.

Yea. The Oscars have a habit of giving out awards for lesser performances because a performer is “due” or they fucked up and didn’t award them for a better performance on a previous nomination.

The Academy Awards have rarely in their history been about “art” (or, at least, only art). Since their inception they’ve been about Hollywood patting itself on the back. Over the years, depending on a wide host of extenuating circumstances, the reasons Hollywood might want to pat itself on the back have changed and…

Gary Oldman deserved nominations for his work as Commissioner Gordon (3x) and his work from the 90's. This looks and feels like a “hey we ignored this guy long enough” type nomination. The nominating body is the acting wing (SAG/AFTRA?) of the Academy, and it’s notoriously based more on how many members were you able…

I think it’s a bit of both, but either way, I’m not sure why you’d want to see a crappy person get awarded when there are other, less awful people available. Even if you thought Oldman was really great, it’s not like he’s so far and away better than the other nominees that to award anyone else would be a miscarriage…

Mystery solved: it turns out Senor Spielbergo was filming a non-union Mexican remake, Encuentros en la Tercera Fase, over in the next valley.

Yeah, the problem is that a term that literally means “We don’t know what the fuck it is” has now come to connote “We don’t know what it is but it is definitely aliens.”

You’re missing the point.

Was the film mocking homosexuality, or mocking homophobia and the ignorance of gay stereotypes (bottled water and candy dishes) and reactionary conservatives being misled to believe their ultra-macho date-raping sons were in fact gay (“I love my dead gay son”)?

Let’s say #metoo and #timesup, in addition to the Weinstein allegations that essentially set those dominoes in motion, had never occurred. Would Colin Firth, or Selina Gomez, or Timothee Chalamet still be distancing themselves? Dylan went public in ‘92 and a number of times thereafter and was brushed aside even though…

I have to echo that this is, at best, an empty platitude. Allen has only re-used actors a few times, he only has one movie every 2-3 years and he’s in his 80s. The horse left the barn a long time ago.

I like the utterly cynical, insincere moves best, because it lets me know that this will take. It’s like when international corporations champion gay rights. Someone with only their own interest at stake deciding to back your side means they think you’re going to win.

Asking an actor to replace Christian Slater is cruel.

Greetings and salutations. So, Heathers is one of my all time fave movies and I have very strong feelings about this show. Everyone involved clearly had brain tumors for breakfast. What is their damage? To distill the intention of the original material thru a 2018 POV is sooo not very. Only pillowcases would think…

Wait a minute, don’t go diminishing the agency of giants. If anything I’d be a bit worried about the effect of the power imbalance on consent when one participant can literally rip the other one’s limbs off.