You know, I went into “Call Me By Your Name” with shivering excitement. Loved the book, looooove Armie, here we go!

My contribution to this thread:

This is the second time that I noticed being appalled at the aggressive viciousness of your comments—the other case being when you went ballistic on the writer who composed a charming blog about living in Colombia and learning the local Spanish idiom. On account of um, her not being a native Spanish speaker?! I…

Ooh, I’m excited about Scorsese shooting that movie with both De Niro and Pacino!

Emotionally repressed rich women have no idea what it means to passionately desire anything.

Classic shade from a classy lady. Never not relevant!

Thank you for posting the doll closeup and correctly identifying the inspiration for it! BTW, the inspiration for the doll is a photograph of Frida, not a painting. (Taken by Nickolas Murray in 1938.) She was out-of-this-world gorgeous, wasn’t she?

I had a tooth extraction two years ago. Not a wisdom tooth, but it was a horrid ordeal. (The crown kept breaking during the extraction. I saw beads of sweat on my dentist’s forehead!)

Meh. That’s your take. Her work married naive figurative portraiture with a potent current of surrealism—it’s kinda meaningless to say she “didn’t feel the need to idealize herself in paintings.

Frida famously put her face on and wore bright red lipstick every day toward the end of her life, when she was completely bedridden.

In contemporary mythology, the cat is the spirit animal of the feminist, aka “crazy cat lady.”

I am cackling like a witch at this, and while I’m not proud of it, I’m like, this is what you get when you “go low,” to quote Ms. Obama.

Yup. And yet.. I kinda wanna buy every Jez commenter who called this out a beer. 

I propose that this blog is not really about Hendricks, or even #metoo. It’s about the author being frustrated with the Hollywood Media Game, and deciding, in a highly professional and not at all whiny and jejune manner, to weaponize his writing into a passive-aggressive attack on it.

Yours is an elegant and amusing comment.

You said it, honey. It felt to me like the here blogger was straining to score ideological points, in a context where a reporter needs to steer clear of editorializing and just let the facts do the talking. I’ll allow that she might lack the skill to report. Most staff here probably never received formal journalism…

🙋👯de rien!

She was way worse in “Swept Away” though. Madonna attained levels of suck in that performance previously confined only to the realm of theoretical possibility.

Bated. The breath is “bated,” not “baited.” “To bate” is an an archaic verb that means “to hold back, to restrain.” Thus you are holding your breath as one does when anxiously anticipating something.

Both Meg Ryan and Ashley Judd got plastic surgery that.. completely changed their faces. I think that had a lot to do with their swift slide off the A List. Meg Ryan in particular, she mutilated her mouth.