what u mad about, that collab would slap

I had to look up what suicide by proxy is. In early modern Europe a lot of depressed women who had been taught that suicide was a sin that would condemn them to hell instead committed homicides (often of infants) so that the state would have to execute them & they could repent & go to heaven. History is some sick shit 

I thought it was the otherway around.  Audrey finding it acceptable since she was tired of having to be the passive love interest of waaaaay older men.  Love in the Afternoon is alright but Gary Cooper does not sell it whatsoever for example. 

Two For the Road is a very well done end of a marriage film.  Its also maybe the only role where Audrey plays a more antagonistic role.  She has a scene where she basically threatens a child and its great!  Only downside, is the barbs her and Finney throw at each other really does make it feel like a collapsing…

For the record, Hitchcock wanted Hepburn to be in Marnie. Since the role required the character to have a rape scene, she turned that down for obvious reasons.

I feel like I read somewhere (maybe in the biography Evenings With Cary Grant?) how Audrey’s character being the aggressor was one of Grant’s conditions for taking the role. He did not want to be seen as the pursuer given their age difference.

I am not sure why lesbian romantic comedies are such an effective subgenre for me. Maybe because the conflict keeping the couples apart doesn’t have to be manufactured.

It’s a little bit different with Trump supporters because they have to both think he is an underdog but also the most successful man ever.  

Yeah but it doesn’t make it necessarily a contrast to Taylor Swift.  Just a contrast to people who don’t play live.

I’m not going to be able to watch Depp without wondering how Joy would’ve blown her out of the water. Fingers crossed!

Further confusing the issue is the fact that, in the 1931 Dracula, the movie swaps out Harker in the prologue for Renfield (which is itself visually referenced in Hoult’s “Renfield” movie.)

There’s a Harker-esque character and prologue in the original Nosferatu, right? Thomas Hutter, who travels to Count Orlok’s castle in Transylvania to kick off the story.

Dave doesn’t know how to play the piano. Taylor Swift played the piano, which is why they were able to perform the song.

Actually I was thinking less of her fans and more about the pop culture blogs (like this one) and people who ostensibly should know better. Like it would be one thing to pass on that a fandom lost their mind about something; it’s another to presume that something must be true despite there being little to no evidence…

I was thinking the same.  I think it could be fairly interpreted either way, but given their friendly relationship I think the more reasonable interpretation is that he was placing his band opposite bands who do not play live, not necessarily that Taylor is among those.

Seeing musicians I like do it really well live is basically the biggest hit of positive emotion I get as an adult, I don’t cry but I don’t blame her for crying.

I don’t think the issue is with him really at all. He seems charmingly self deprecating. The problem, if there even is a problem, is with fans who don’t understand how pop music is put together and why that would mean a TS concert is constructed very differently from your average guitar + drums + bass rock concert.

Its classic counter programming for the holiday. Every couple of years someone releases an R rated, not holiday friendly, movie on Christmas day

I feel like Nicholas Hoult already did this.

It’s a bit like how Dave Barry used to make fun of those cereal ads that showed a bowl of cereal next to eggs, toast, and fruit claiming that the cereal was “part of this complete breakfast!” As Barry said, don’t you really mean “adjacent to this complete breakfast”?