My Brilliant Friend has been on the NYT bestseller list for months & months, so they’re not singling out anyone obscure.

He’s really fired up about warning people against doing something that no one actually wants to do in the first place.

What is with that promo photo? It’s so incongruous...like Jessica Biel borrowed a dress from Loretta Young to go to Magnolia Bakery.

This might just be for the purposes of the photo, but how does she ski with that giant rock on her hand? I take off my rings to do pretty much everything, and they certainly aren’t as big as that jumbo sapphire.

It wasn’t from a dog bite, she was actually randomly attacked by a person (when she was a child)—so yeah, that may or may not inform how she looks at this.

omg, that is the best.

This complements well a story a friend told me about a small community in Costa Rica in which she lived for awhile where everyone was obsessed with “Highway to Heaven” and assumed Michael Landon was basically the most famous person in the U.S.

Not “wedges.” “Smiles.” Smiles of grapefruit. Little smiles of grapefruit.

Somehow this whole thread is full of pity for the dog, with none to spare for the poor assistant, who probably just wants a whole KIND bar to herself once in a fucking while.

Exactly. It’s neither a coup nor a hostile takeover. This man was democratically elected. This the party that the GOP built that they’re now wanting to pretend they didn’t build, or didn’t really mean to build. But this is what happens when you deny people adequate public education, stoke their paranoia, and reward…

My God, you would’ve been a vision pairing that with tights that were just a slightly creamier shade of white than the dress itself, and blue flats.

Um. it is white.

But isn’t IrisJ just saying that some of this 20% answered the way they did because they literally did not understand the question they were being asked? As in, they vaguely believed themselves to be agreeing to one thing, but didn’t have any meaningful sense of what they were agreeing to because they have trouble…

Ha...yes, as a tween, I had my own unfortunate collection of Laura Ashley dresses. Including one navy blue pinwhale corduroy with leg-o-mutton sleeves, God help me.

Bless her, a less beautiful woman would have been thoroughly done in by all that dowdiness. Can you IMAGINE spending your 20s dressed like that?!

So, yes, I think so. Almost always an Oscar allows an actor to demand more money after. Though honestly that wears off pretty quickly, and actors usually need to play it pretty carefully in the year or so after their win, in order to keep momentum going. And no one is ever going to make a multi-million dollar salary…

This isn’t how movie math works. Your box office gross in no way represents your net profits. First of all, $10M is the production budget; production budgets don’t include P&A (prints & advertising). P&A can actually be almost as much as the production budget itself, and sometimes even exceed it (as it easily could…

Of course you can’t, but that’s why actors hustle all the time and don’t just work one job per year. This is $50K for perhaps 10 weeks worth of work. Then there’s some more work to be done promoting it, but that’s not going to take up the other 42 weeks of her year. The wage gap is real, but her salary on this movie…