Agreed on the friend and the locker room scene: my group was all cackling for that.

That’s his point. There’s no way the finished product will be the exact same as the finished script in which case some “writing” would be happening on the set, resulting in Tony Gilroy having not stuck with the strike and the union.

Honestly, I think his lawyer is doing an atrocious job with the PR here. First it was releasing the texts that made the woman look like a classic victim of abuse, and now this. Shaming the alleged victim does not generally go well. It just makes you look guiltier. Even if the underlying charges of racism are entirely…

Hey this jerk is talking shit about Tom Hanks! Let’s get him! 

I’m searching through my Standard AVClub Bingo Cards and I have to say “black man’s lips” aren’t on any one of them. Does that require a special order?

For me that phrase was ruined a few years ago when some right wing cartoonist drew a political cartoon of a bunch of witches hunting for Donald Trump, because that’s he honestly thought a “witch hunt” was.

I’m not sure that the verdict has to have much to do with it, especially in a he said/she said case like this. I’m withholding judgment because I don’t know anything about it, but I don’t think I’ll know much more after a verdict is entered. All a not guilty verdict will tell me is that there wasn’t enough evidence to…

Can you even “witch hunt” an individual person?  At that point, what are you hunting? 

There’s a very plausible story here where a celebrity (who apparently has a reputation for abusing people) battered his girlfriend, and the police were then racist to him. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an attorney claim their client was the victim of systemic misandry. 

We will let the scales make the call. Anyone have a spare duck?

“there are no witches”

Well wait, isn’t that kinda what the phrase means? Not specifically “to murder women” but “there are no witches” is kinda baked in there.

you’d think the fact that it was just an excuse to murder women and didn’t have anything to do with witches would have ruined the phrase, but here we are.

“This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors...”

I’d go so far as to say it’s never healthy to idolize anyone or anything. It’s nearly unavoidable, to be sure, especially in one’s more impressionable years; but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.

Every once in a while, a celebrity pops up and reminds us that we ought to be careful idolizing folks in the entertainment industry when someone being a decent and grounded person is grounds for praise.

I mean, I can certainly see my day being ruined and my mood turned sour by a phone call from Chet.

You would have to have written for a film or TV studio (I have, several times) to recognize just how un-fulfilling it usually is. Half the time you’re forced to write demoralizing crap. You can get lucky, of course, but somebody wrote every bit of the garbage you see when you’re channel surfing, and they very often…

“I can’t pay you, but you’ll get lots of exposure!”

The people in charge see money as the source of their money. Their money makes money and they throw money at things and get money back and they cut exploitative deals to take more money than they put into the thing that made the money.