I find it very disconcerting to hear British actors attempt American accents. So many subtle cues go missing. I always find myself wondering where in hell in the US the character is from.

Madonna has entered her “Fat Elvis” phase. Each megastar has entered their high-risk, late phase with subtle differences; Michael Jackson, George Michael, the list goes on and on. It’s when flesh and blood reality can no longer rise to the dizzying demands of the popstar persona... but they don’t care.

This article catapulted me down a TikTok Tunnel that was very, very difficult to claw my way out of.

My first thought was Sophie was in The Staircase? Point taken.

The British tabloids used the same strategy with Megan Markle. It’s disturbingly effective.

Agreed. She looks like a Dutch Renaissance painting.

So you’re thinking she’s the one who pulled the plug. But who knows what happened under the Invisibility Cloak?

If you’re from the UK you may have more perspective on her, but I was dazzled by her mythical odyssey in Game of Thrones. Her subsequent unlikely marriage to the star of Disney Channel’s J.O.N.A.S. gave me whiplash.

Oh yes I think you’re quite right about the British art of otherness! As an American hemmed in by the American art of conformity, their peevish otherness has often been the most beguiling thing about British paramours.

I, too came here to throw roses at Sofia Coppola’s feet. Effortless chic.

Yes, exactly! There is no charisma! Pop stars with no charisma – how does that work?

You may be onto something. I get it, many young actors struggle to maintain a private life. But I have always found his persona to be spectacularly... opaque. Even hard-to-hide megastar Taylor Swift completely disappeared when she entered Joe’s Impenetrable Cone of Silence. I’m no Easter Egg oracle but I do wonder…

The Jonas Brothers always struck me as three lobotomies. I dunno, is it just me? Something important seems to be missing. Never understood how someone as dazzling cool as Sophie Turner married one of them.

OK I for one am shocked by the images of these two sucking face. Totally did not see it coming. Goes to show how completely clueless I am when it comes to heterosexual maneuvers. I just find you kids and your erotic escapades utterly unpredictable!

Legitimate argument.

Peripheral perception, but the Tucker on X “rustic woodshed” set – and his suit & tie – produce a strange and dissonant effect. Or is it just me?

Sorry but I’m on her side 100%. Kostner is sitting his 60 y/o miserly ass atop a $270 million dollar mountain of gold and he can’t spare a decent chunk of it for his wife of 20 years and his kids? Yesyesyes she signed a prenup but fuck that noise! TF is all that money going to? Gold leaf toilet paper?

Count your blessings.

Many years ago I saw an Australian film in which a serial killer victimizes gay men. Two murders in to the story I was so terrorized I could not finish the film. I thought about how traumatizing it would be to live in a society fascinated by and hungry for films about the slaughter of gay men. And yet that is exactly…

Doesn’t surprise me. One of the most scarily deranged women I know is a Mommy Blogger, with the most enchanting, inspiring, gorgeous Mommy Blog I’ve ever seen. Meanwhile her husband has divorced her and is bitterly struggling to win full custody of their kid.