“Yeah, well, Kaepernick would have beaten them by SIX points!”

Not that anyone should care, but the whole thing sort of crystallized for me why I think it’s dangerous to center this wage gap battle in Hollywood, a business where it’s very difficult to find apples to compare with other apples. It’s not like two computer science majors got hired to be software engineers at Apple,…

Who knows? He was probably involved to some degree. Although, having now seen the movie, one point that seems to have been overlooked is that, provided they only re-shot scenes they had with Getty, Wahlberg would have had much more work to do than Williams who, if memory serves, had almost no scenes with him. Maybe…

Can’t help but think you’re saying that because you forgot about it/didn’t know about it. But it was out there.

If you needed a master class in how to combine hilarious manipulations of the facts along with things that just aren’t true...you could do a lot worse than this article.

Anyone can like/dislike someone for whatever reasons they want, but...you don’t know these people. How do you know that this wasn’t a “passion” project for Mark Wahlberg, or that it was more so for Michelle Williams?

Hard to argue with the end result of money going to this cause, but a lot of the criticism seemed in pretty bad faith to begin with, given that if an actress’s reps had been ready to take advantage of this situation (as Wahlberg’s apparently were and Williams’s weren’t), the coverage in places like this wouldn’t have…

Maybe the next EIC will acknowledge the allegations surrounding Greg Howard.

I remember Jezebel getting all up in arms defending Kevin Hart after he got called a “whore” by Sony execs for demanding $3 million to tweet about a movie. So why is that fine and this an absurd amount of money (for more work than sending a tweet)? Pick a lane.

Yeah, but that’s not nearly worth the bile (two nasty articles within hours of each other) that Deadspin has heaped on him for writing something makes some decent points. Something else is going on here, as it always has with Deadspin re: Simmons, a guy who they see as doing what they do but with much greater rewards.

Sorry, but the “Bill Simmons sucks and must be shit on at every opportunity” mandate around here is getting real old. First of all, Curran DOES criticize the ESPN piece (just in the thing Simmons cites, not the other you one you cherry-pick).

Please. If an actress (or Beyonce) did this: YASSS KWEEN! GET THAT $$$ GURL!

No, this has to be a mistake. I’ve learned from Gawker/Splinter/Jezebel that all Muslim-majority countries want is to get along with everyone, and to call them “repressive” is racist.

Neither “the woman” nor “the man” here negotiate salaries themselves.

He’s also been nominated for an Oscar.

My thoughts exactly. Studios aren’t going to give you more money to make it fair unless you ask for it.

As the former head of the studio that distributed this movie once said:

But it was diverse, which means that it was good.

Why do I feel like you’ve got a couple half-finished scripts on your hard drive from before you realized that you had no talent?

Is that Sean McDonough on ESPN radio? His voice is cracking like he’s practicing his Torah portion before the big day.