And even if there wasn’t, making what could potentially be a huge years-long commitment is a very different beast. I’m reminded of the crazy rumours going around why Jennifer Ehle dropped out of Game of Thrones. She rebutted them with what strikes me as a perfectly sound reason — she’d given birth to her second child…

Or maybe just take what she damn says at face value —she didn’t sign up for an opened commitment to a television series. You don’t have to “hate TV’ to make a perfectly reasonable decision that’s not for you.

And as many have noted, this work of “investigative journalism” was published in the weekly cultural suppliment of financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (very roughly the Italian equivalent of the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times),as if Ferrante was a corrupt politician or an industrialist on the take from the…

Oh, I think it has everything to do with Ferrante being a woman — a woman writer who doesn’t play the game the way male journalists, critics and academics think she should, and doesn’t even try to sugar-coat her disdain for it. A woman, who to add insult to injury, has become an international success with four novels…

If LeBlanc was as big a he-diva as The Sun would have us believe, Chris Evans couldn’t be fired - he’d have been fed to the crew with some fava beans and a nice Chianti long before now.

Well, it should be. Perhaps you should be putting ownership for that on people behaving like “violent maniacs” not on media for pointing out harassment and initimidation.

Worse. Comic book. Superhero. Team. Pitch. EVER.

That’s broadly how I feel too - I’ve had many issues with both Clinton and Sanders over many years (FWIW, I admire Obama without agreeing with everything he’s said and done over the last eight years either), and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Still, if I was American I’d vote for an intimate pot luck dinner…

I’m used to the radical right having a... tenuous grasp on the Constitution that exists rather than being freshly pulled out of their collective arse. Which just makes it all the more important that the rest of us keep a firm grasp on why - and how - America’s government was based on the concept of separation of…

Yup, and least we forget the ability of either Clinton or Sanders to advance their agenda hinges on enough down-ballot victories to flip the Senate (which is going to be difficult but not unimaginable) and making serious gains in the House. I know this doesn’t mean shit to Sanders and a good chunk of his supporters…

Of course Bernie Sanders can keep his ideological purity in his safe Senate seat, while the down ballot candidates this fundraiser is for get pasted by the gun industry, the Koch Brothers etc.

I’d be very glad if they did, because there’s a six foot stack of empirical evidence that women in Hollywood don’t and it’s even worse for women of colour. Something Dawson herself hasn’t exactly been shy about pointing out. But hey... you keep swimming in the River Denial if that works for you.

I’m kind of glad Black History Month had an extra day this leap year, because I guess seventy five years ago Rock would have been mocking the silly NAACP for talking about picketing the premiere of Gone With The Wind because nobody invited them anyway.

I’m really glad there’s an extra day in Black History Month this leap year, because I’m pretty sure Chris Rock just wiped out the entire civil rights movement for the sake of a joke that’s wasn’t funny to begin with.

Do I believe Rock know or even cares whether Rosario Dawson and Gabrielle Union got equal pay on Top Five? No I don’t, and I don’t believe they did either.

Uh, so everyone at the Oscars is a working actor? Uh, OK... good to know. I guess we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this, but I got Rock’s point — and it was interesting he didn’t go into a sustained rant targeting Spike Lee (or Creed director Ryan Coogler who wasn’t in the room) at length, and comparing him…

And the Oscar for Best Performance From Someone Whose Sick Burn Isn’t goes to... So Pro! Well done, you!

Did Chris Rock at any point in the evening make a reference to a woman that wasn’t bizarre, mean-spirited or just creepy? (Honestly, I have no idea how his opening monologue got from Jada Pinket-Smith to Rhianna’s panties in a single bound, and am not sure I want to.)

But apparently not so important to Rock that he decided to forgo a well-paying, high profile gig hosting this utterly irrelevant distraction from “real issues,” right?

TBF, that’s a lot of ground to cover in a monologue even when you’re not dedicating an awful lot of time to defensively explaining why you took the gig and telling those uppity #OscarsSoWhite folks to be be quiet. And honestly, given his track record, I’m not sure Chris Rock speaking to issues affecting women, LGBT…