When I say "the top" I definitely don't necessarily mean they have to have Jennifer Lawrence-level money, just that it's a lot easier to take risks when you have some sort of safety net and when your money isn't necessary to your family for survival. When you look at the leaders in either the first or second waves of…

By this logic, the VFX artists can't complain either, because they're making more than fast food workers. And the fast food workers can't complain, because they're making more than Bangladeshi sweatshop workers. And the Bangladeshi sweatshop workers can't complain, because they're making more than Malian slaves (and…

Sure, and nobody's blaming them if they do.

It's less about trickle-down economics than it is about people at the top being loud enough about disparities is what eventually leads to laws being put into place (or, if they're already in place, enforced) to prevent those disparities, or for people who run companies to understand that the potential bad publicity…

No, her point specifically referred to men that she's working for. It was only intended to reference her industry, because—presumably—that's the only industry she feels comfortable making point-blank generalizations about. You're the one who decided it referred to the world at large. It doesn't.

Shit doesn't change at the lower levels until it changes at the top. Lawrence is in a place to make these arguments specifically because she's comparably privileged and doesn't need to worry about money. The women at the bottom of the economic scale can't put up any kind of fight because if they do, they lose their…

Apparently the concept of equal pay for equal work is more controversial than we realized.

Jennifer Lawrence is not working for teachers or project managers. As far as I know.

There are a shit-ton of books written specifically for adults that have no deeper meaning whatsoever. There are a ton of books written for kids that have enough deeper meaning that entire fields of study have built up around them. (See, for example: Alice in Wonderland, Narnia, the Wizard of Oz.) The age of a book's…

It's a very hard series to market. There's no way to reasonably sell it in trailers etc. other than "This is a children's fantasy series," but—at least in the movies—it doesn't translate well to being shoehorned into the actual "children's fantasy series" format/tropes. (In books, there's a bit more leeway.)

I'll allow the Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret update solely because Judy Blume's role in the YA canon has always been half-writer, half-assistant navigator to adolescence. The changes are less about "Teenage girls today won't relate to X" and more about "This passage was specifically designed by Blume to help…

It's basically impossible to make a good "Christian film"—at least in the sense that "Christian film" is currently defined—because the entire industry is centered around depicting the idea that God is the solution to everything and true believers don't have any significant problems . . . which obviously tends to…

It's also the best adaptation of the Peter Pan story when it comes to handling the Indians—it understands that they're representative of children's play fantasies (like the mermaids and fairies and pirates) and thus should be more like a Edwardian-era British child would imagine a Native American than like a real-life…

Excuse me, it was an Asian girl.

Your loss, man.

A couple years ago he was getting a decent amount of buzz calling him "the new Prince" and stuff like that.

Honestly, a huge part of Harry Potter's draw was the shared experience of reading/watching them—of going to late-night book release parties, and to midnight showings before midnight showings were a common thing, and participating in the online communities before the concept of online communities really blew up, and…

That was Kurosawa's Throne of Blood for me.

I'm going to say they're Portugal—their coup of the HBO shows is the Brazil of this analogy, but that's all they got.

"Hung Up" wasn't a number one in the U.S., though, which was what I was using as my metric. Practically everywhere except the U.S.! But not here.