Judge Judy isn't on the Supreme Court. Judge Judy is the Supreme Court.

Yeah, I'm very interested in finding out which political party thinks "Haha, remember that time you were a child who got raped by a celebrity in a very embarrassing way, and not only did everybody find out about it, but everyone saw the video circulating for years afterward—and oh yeah, he was accused of doing the…

It's not even him "opening up" about it; he has talked about it multiple times in the past when he was going through his abuse scandal.

Ahem.

She was a blank slate, but that was at least fifty percent of the appeal.

This seems very "Jem and the Holograms," where they take the name to try and capture nostalgic fans' attention but then don't maintain any of the actual source material.

It can be three things.

George and Bess were cousins. :(

One of the casting associates for The Martian is a (white, I'm pretty sure) British woman whose last name is Park, so I'm guessing there was a bit of confirmation bias going on there.

I read Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendour (about Richard III) shortly after finishing GRRM's series, and the first half was so similar to Game of Thrones that it literally made Game of Thrones look like fan fiction. (The second half is pretty different, though.)

The thing is, the Academy Board (who extends the membership invitations) is actually pretty attuned to racial issues right now. They just sent out a batch of new invitations last year that were specifically focused on increasing the racial/gender/age diversity of the Academy. Nobody needs to yell at them to do that,…

It's absolutely a larger Hollywood problem, which Lee acknowledges in his statement. There are multiple levels here:

Haha, I wouldn't say that I "align with Jessica" at all—there are just as many stupid and nonsensical things her character is forced to do because of bad writing. One of the problems with the writing is that it massively undermines your ability to relate to any of the characters.

I know she doesn't know, but it's bad, contrived writing regardless. She has Malcolm standing right there next to her saying, "Don't go into Jessica's apartment, there are things about this situation that you don't understand, etc." (I can't remember if he actually tells her not to let Kilgrave go before she does it,…

I agree with almost all of this— for me, my biggest overarching criticism is that way too many writing decisions were made by the writers saying, "We want X to happen; how do we shuffle characters into a position to allow that?" rather than finding ways to let the conflict develop naturally based on who the characters…

Call me crazy, but it seems like maybe the "don't beat your wife" part of having respect for people is a little bit more important than the "wearing a suit to occasions that warrant it" part. Anybody who can't grasp the basics of the former is unlikely to be able to wrap his head around the latter.

If they were in any way attuned to what mainstream society finds acceptable, they wouldn't be beating their wives.

That'd make a good poll, actually: is a good man harder to find in art school, or a 1980s suburban Chicago high school as imagined by John Hughes? Either way things are looking pretty bleak.

The book is pretty effective at redeeming Amy, I think, and her relationship with Laurie makes complete sense once she's matured a bit. I think the movies often fail to convey her redemption arc/what they have in common, though, so it can be harder to buy their relationship in the film versions.

That was only in the second ending they filmed. In the original ending he just pesters Andie until she goes to Prom with him. For some strange reason, audiences hated it and they had to switch it out.