I always felt sympathy for Rebecca Black. She spent her 13th birthday making a music video. So what? She probably learned a lot about things she was interested in - music, video production, photography, etc. Some parents of 13 year olds spend the same amount of money so their kid can memorize some ancient Hebrew and…

A prosecutor announcing who they will charge, but not what they will be charged with, is not a good example of a functioning rule of law. 

“I mean, the President is a litigious and vindictive asshole”

“As the smug Colbert noted, he himself—like Trump—never had to prove their American bona fides, having successfully navigated their way out of their respective American mothers’ birth canals”

Dehumanizing language that should be banned from social media. 

“I went into this episode a little queasy thinking of ways it could go very, very wrong”

You know who decided not to vote for Dukakis because of how he looked in a tank helmet? Morons. 

John Wayne and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn in both True Grit adaptations. 

But that’s not boring at all!

“This is a girls’ night out movie, not a grim Zack Snyder bro-down”

The twittersphere may be a tiny sliver of humanity but it consistently owns the fiction industry.

It’s an incredibly rude joke, and you can tell Letterman knows this because he lies in his own explanation of it:  The premise isn’t that Tarantino is “little” or “squirrelly,” it’s that he’s ugly.  

4 paragraphs into the article: “Minnelli isn’t a Hollywood icon — she’s a show business legend”

This is a great interview. Also editing sounds exhausting. “I never get tired.”

It’s like he thinks SNL’s primary function is education and that it’s a given that there should be an actual Black History Month lesson in a Black History  Month sketch. Why? This isn’t Sesame Street. 

I really loved this show when it came out and as it evolved I realized staring into the abyss just doesn’t interest me. So I’ve only half paid attention to it for the last couple seasons. But Alison Brie is phenomenal in this episode; that much I picked up.

He would be the first person without an Oscar nomination cast as Joker since Cesar Romero.

“including hiring queer writers” - it’s a bad sign that a show needs to brag about this. 

Antoine Fuqua’s interprets Equalizer to mean that for every minute of ass kicking, Denzel must spend a minute making tea, driving for Uber, working at Lowes or other mundane activity. And I love it. I hope this new Equalizer borrows this.

Excellent comment. I wish more popular business writing had this kind of historical context. Most of it reads like coverage of a boxing match between corporate logos. Does “more in common with a production company than a proper studio” mean it can leverage IP assets via dealmaking but doesn’t have the physical plant…