Obviously this will be worthless without DiMaggio, although I read elsewhere that they’re in talks and are optimistic they’ll come to terms. But assuming he signs on, well, I’ll give it a shot, but I can’t say I’m champing at the bit. 

Duckman

“The cracks were showing, but it could still go out on a relatively high note.”

I don’t know about Lauren Tom, but I don’t think Billy or Phil ever want for demand.  

The movies were good except for Bender’s Game! The Comedy Central run was a mixed bag but it ended wonderfully, and I thought that was a perfect time to stop. The cracks were showing, but it could still go out on a relatively high note. From what I’ve seen, the general sentiment is nervousness. Especially…

Honestly its not even ashamed of animation.  It just strengthens the brand and is quick easy money.  If I was a soulless corperate executive I'd do it as well.

Technically, they work in a cave, and live in a house. That said, and even acknowledging the movie doesn’t exactly heap mockery onto the dwarfs for being short, I’ll agree it’s not the most progressive depiction of short people in film.

I don’t really get the first point - he didn’t force her to audition, if anything it seems pretty clear from the anecdote that he didn’t want her to. She wanted to so she paid her own way to do so. She could have easily said “fuck this guy, I’m not paying for my own ticket for a job interview.”

FWIW, the sheriff’s office tweeted out that no signs of drug use or foul play were immediately apparent.

Captain America nor Stark as Iron Man have the same shortcomings as Pym. 

Even though both Reed Richards and Hank Pym were very condescending to their respective superheroine girlfriends, Hank in particular was incredibly verbally abusive to Janet. Reading those comics now, it’s like he’s berating and insulting her nonstop. I am assuming Stan Lee was going for comic- battle of the sexes - ba…

Comic Books were always heavily influenced by mainstream entertainment of the time, so Marvel’s depictions of women were very much a reflection of those seen on tv and in movies of the ‘60s. The period was still very chauvinistic and sexist, but starting to give slight nods to female ability and independence. Not so…

and female writers sometime...in the late 1980s/90s?

The TERF Wizard Books are so ubiquitous in pop culture that it is plausible that someone who was never particularly into the franchise to not notice the messed up shit that’s in the books and played completely straight.

In retrospect, I’m not totally surprised JK went all TERF-y, considering the character path for all of the characters culminates in an epilogue where everyone dutifully marries off into heteronormative families. It’s not an indicator of bigotry, but JK surprises me less now than Graham Linehan.

I mean...HP definitely carries messages of anti-bigotry and a pro peace-and-love theme (in a way that I’d argue is more commenting on the Iraq war and specific geopolitical happenings at the time and barely touts a specific ideology beyond that), but I wouldn’t necessarily call a book that subscribes to a “some people…

I’ll be frank, friend. It’s easier to say that now, and it doesn’t really get to the larger point: that while the TERF stuff isn’t in the content of the book, the goblin/Jewish stuff is, and is frankly in a LOT of myth/fantasy/sci-fi stuff, and we ALL just take it for granted, and literally billions of people don’t…

Sadly not surprising all these stereotypes are in a series that is a love letter to the elite Old Etonian boarding schools that have served as a great bastion for WASPy males.  

Let’s not kid ourselves that this isn’t (at least in large part) an opportunity for good PR for Frank Kent MC.
 
Still, motives aside, good on them for stepping in to help out.

Remember back in the late 80s when cable became ubiquitous, and everyone created their own channels to fill all the bandwidth and make money? Well, we’re at that point again with streaming services.