Isn’t having 1% of the best stuff right at the top and then the 99% of plain stuff underneath exactly the OPPOSITE of what Bernie is yearning for?

Eh, not really. That’s a decision between the makeup dept and the director, and the fewer directorial decisions you try to impose via your screenplay, the better off you are.

Well, it’s exactly because they have such a limited amount of space, and yet chose to waste an entire sentence on an irrelevant detail like lip color that offers the casting director nothing (because it can be achieved on any actress with a swipe of lipstick) and also offers the actor nothing (because it’s not…

“I common-sensically have stopped eating!”

I think it’s more sad than anything. Both a sad level of self-involvement and a sad undergirding of self-loathing.

This comment should win a goddam Nobel Prize.

JESUS. I’m so sorry. Can’t you report it even still?

Yeah, that green thing is an anti-suicide smock. I’m not quite sure how they work, but that’s what they look like.

It’s extremely thin.

OK, but THIS guy is almost certainly a dickhead.

“Please don’t have your reps contact me, because I like to be able to lowball you directly. I find it’s easier to be manipulative and scummy that way.”

“During my education, I enjoyed many social exchanges with my fellow pupils. Some of these social exchanges included speaking, or not speaking while playing with electronics. I found all of my social time to be extremely pleasant.”

I think what’s happening here is a dangerous admixture of both the free-floating crazy you’re talking about and a more personally-directed threat. He clearly knew who she was to the extent of knowing she was a TV personality on MSNBC, so there was unquestionably a personal aspect to his aggression.

Nah, you’re allowed to have friends. Family is family, and if she had been a shithead to him that would be one thing, but otherwise that’s just life. People form their own friendships and their own bonds. It sounds like you’re doing just fine.

I found a $4 lip balm and a $12 bar of soap. So, yeah. WELCOME, WORKING CLASS!!! May I show you a $45 water bottle?

The smarm factor always ruined the interviews for me.

...because Duncan is well over the age of 25 already, and Bowie & his advisors evidently decided that 25 was the right age to release funds. If he were still a kid I’d imagine the same restrictions would be attached.

Well, but her father didn’t quite leave it “to her,” in the sense that you mean. He left it in a trust for her. Which wealthy people can do with their money, if they so choose. Some people set the terms of a trust such that trustees control the distribution of the funds for the rest of the recipient’s life. (which you…

I can’t imagine going through something like that at such a vulnerable moment. I’m glad you told your doctor—I hoped that s/he was suitably horrified.

I thought the most effective part of that whole sequence was her total resignation when she reached the 911 operator—”yeah (sigh), I need assistance.”