I don’t know about the queer part - I think it was because her public persona was SUCH a happy and silly woman, then her fans were confronted with the fact when the cameras were off she treated the people who made the show happen like shit.

Ha, my firm hires young CPAs all the time who spent three years at accounting firms and would sooner kill themselves than be auditors for life.

As others have noted, Nicholson portrays Jack as already 90% of the way to murderous psycho rather than a decent man who is increasingly manipulated by the spirits of the Overlook.  There’s no arc to his character.

Just posted something similar above - I can’t begin to think of another actress with the physical resemblance to play that role, never mind nail the part itself.

I’m not sure there was a woman alive more suited to playing Olive Oyl.

THAT I will put on Kubrick. His expression in the scene where they’re driving up to the Overlook was one of a man already seriously contemplating the murder of his family. I’m assuming he was instructed to look that way. And Duvall looked like a battered woman terrified to say anything at all to him. I love the movie…

By “dusting” I was referring to Obama, not Trump. But the EC is what counts in presidential politics, and Trump’s 304-227 win was not exactly a narrow margin of victory.

Anti-nepotism rules apply to a company hiring the relative of an existing employee - not the same as using personal connections

What’s funny is looking at recent photos she’s definitely had some work done, but appears to be made up here to look even more plastic-y

But isn’t that just howling at the moon? What you’re talking about is true in every industry, world-wide.  Heck getting a union card used to be dependent upon having a family member with connections to leadership.

Actually a study by E&Y some years back found that 88% of U.S. millionaires were self-made.  That doesn’t mean there weren’t helpful connections or supportive families, but at least it wasn’t inherited.

Because it falls into the victimhood narrative. Because nepo actor A landed a role, someone else was wronged.

He falls into the category of nepos who are able to occasionally leverage their names into being cast in z-grade crap because the producers hope recognition might drive a handful more people to the movies, or help scrape together funding in the first place. I’ve heard of Joe Estevez but couldn’t name a single thing…

Eh, I don’t know that Lorne would keep them around if consensus was their work sucked.

Plus there are so many Hollywood actors that if all it took to be successful and book roles was a last name, there wouldn’t be room for anyone NOT connected by birth.  

True, but the party had already lined up behind her as the presumptive nominee. Obama was still viewed as a long-term up-and-comer, then shocked the party by dusting her. Then it happened to her AGAIN in 2016 with Trump. To have that much experience, recognition and party support and get blindsided twice by…

Yeah and that’s a corollary to my take. Yes those people were handed opportunity, but it’s what they did with it that counts. Anniston’s dad sure didn’t have the clout to force Hollywood to cast her in TV and movies for the last 30 years.

oh my god

I long ago came down on the side of not blaming people for using family connections, provided they can actually deliver on their own merits. There just aren’t that many people who get by professionally for life on the basis of their parents.  Subsist, hang around the edges?  Sure.