The entire other side of my family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) all voted McCain/Palin in whatever year she ran ('08? Really? She's been in the national news now for over 6 years?). Plus many friends/acquaintances. I actually ended a long time friendship when I found out a friend voted for McCain just…

So disappointing. I fully believe I can only get along with my conservative family because they are not of the Tea Party ilk. I still think they are wrong, but I can have a reasonable discussion with them, they know not to believe Fox News, etc. My mother registered as an Independent (rather than Republican) ever…

The dog is a service dog. It's selected for it's placid and docile nature and trained to put up with a lot of shit. A regular dog may have ripped the child's legs off.

Oh I'm all for giving pets a full and well rounded 3 name moniker.

Only Sarah Palin could make PETA look reasonable and well-informed. AUGH. What a ridiculously ignorant rant. Selecting her for VEEP candidate will always color how I feel about the otherwise fairly reasonable (for a Rethuglican) McCain.

She was shooting respect. It only looked like bullets.

I'm beginning to wonder if she's a performance artist like Andy Kaufman. Her trolling skills are exceptional.

I know voting is secret and all, but we need to know every single person who ever voted for Palin for anything so we can round them up into homes and care for them — they clearly are not equipped to make any of their own life choices.

Sylvester Stallone is still playing action heroes in his late 60s and is currently writing another Rambo movie to star in. Why doesn't Crowe tell Stallone to start acting his age? Going by Crowe's rationale, Stallone should be be doing nothing but playing cranky grandpas in comedies.

Streep is such a bad example of an exception to the rule, too. Oh, the best actress on earth can get roles? Color me shocked.

Yeah. Um. I dunno how cold the climate is, but people do things in colder places. Aside from stay in and fuck.

I also wanted to mention Something's Gotta Give and how that movie was such a big deal because it blasted the whole problem with this double standard. Jack Nicholson hooking up with Amanda Peet was part of the "norm" in their world but the idea of Keanu Reeves lusting after Diane Keaton was so absurd that even her…

Ooh, I want to hear Russell's hot take on Winter's Tale. "Sure, Colin Farrell, you can totally pull off playing a 21-year-old. But that 25-year-old actress playing opposite you, also pretending to be 21? She needs to act her age."

Honestly, it was the first thing that popped into my head reading those quotes. WTF ever, Russ.

Exactly. I think he thinks that because there's this wonderful bounty of meaty roles for men his age that there are those same exact options available for women.

I believe it was Tina Fey who said: "Helen Mirren is not proof that there are parts for older women, Helen Mirren is proof that there are parts for Helen Mirren."

I suspect the problem is not that women won't "act their age," but that there are so few roles written for women in their 40s, 50s and beyond in which they can be protagonists. Men who are Crowe's age are seen as pivotal, sexual, and dynamic; too often women at that age are relegated to being the helpful wife, the…

Dearest Russell,

If you are trying to pretend that you're still the young buck when you're my age, it just doesn't work.