No event planner just says “ya know, I’m gonna pay extra money out of my profits for this event and go to a bunch of trouble hiring/scheduling dancers and setting up little stages for them to dance on so you can have sexy dancers. I’ll just throw that in for free. Aren’t I nice?” There’s no default like this in the…

I think Bill from marketing wanted to get out of being stuck organizing the parties, and this was his devious plan to never have to do it, again.

“It’s on Microsoft to stop this from happening again, and ensure their outreach to women seems genuine.” [emphasis added]

For a moment can we just appreciate the fact that Sandy Powell showed up dressed like David Bowie: the early years?

Oops. I responded to your OP without reading this far down. The original has that loads of that good ol’ nightmare-inducing German expressionism. Now I want to see the ‘51 remake.

Baby Face is fantastic.

Yes it’s the remake which Fritz Lang also directed.

The Fritz Lang ‘M’ was from ‘31- so I think too early for HUAC, I believe he was alluding to the Nazis.

Fritz Lang did the 1931 original, which is super creepy. According to the website they’re showing the 1951 American remake, which I haven’t seen. Martin “Mr. Arlene Francis” Gabel is in it (the remake).

I can’t wait for this series! I’m a TCM hound but there are a few here that I haven’t seen.

I especially recommend Babyface which is not only labeled ‘Wanton’ by the Catholic church (hee), but being pre-Code it really does handle some subject matter that wouldn’t have been touched even 5 years later. And it’s one of…

This is a still from the opening 5 or 6 seconds of the movie. Yes, it’s a bit provocative, no worse than Lolita. Arguably less controversial since the actress (Carroll Baker) portrays a 19 year old woman, married but still a virgin. The whole point of her character is that she is in many ways a child.

Somewhat off-topic-ish, but another great examination of movies that violated the Hayes Code, especially as it concerns immorality is The Celluloid Closet. Very, very interesting look at cinema portrayals of the LGBT community, and how those portrayals have changed, and NOT changed, over the years.

Kendrick reminds me of a young Spike Lee. Rap music has always been heavily influenced by jazz music with Eric B. & Rakim, Gang Starr as well as a bunch of other artists but Kendrick uses jazz as another voice/character in his music. Similar to how a lot of scenes in Spike Lee movies (especially his older films) use…

And let us marvel again at how precisely Andrew Sullivan, the man who spent thirty years slowly figuring out that modern American Republicans aren’t British Tories from his childhood, measured the pulse of our society.

“These aren’t uncommon reactions for people who have suffered violence at the hands of sexual or romantic partners (and attacking a sexual assault victim’s credibility is a defense tactic as common as it is ugly).”

Deadspin, thanks for continuing USWNT coverage. It’s not easy to find most places.

The turf in question was beyond the football playing surface because a soccer pitch is bigger. There were seams in the additional turf.

To describe any part of the Pro Bowl as successful is being a little generous.

Might be a little different when in one sport the ball actually travels across the turf

And he’s wrong about my ability to confuse the Cong with my slippery circular reasoning. I totally used it to talk my way out a POW camp in ‘68.