I’ve given this some thought, and I disagree. I think rumours and allegations about things like sexual abuse should be taken *more* seriously, and people making allegations should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, the whole thing is richly ironic: an evil abuser who gets away with it because he’s too powerful and well-connected to prosecute. (Er, spoilers for anyone who hasn’t seen it.) It’s like Polanski was hiding himself in plain sight.

My favourite suggestion is that they should reduce the maximum character count by one character every week.

After 30 years, you get used to it.

‘The public’ and ‘Hollywood’ are not the same thing... and it doesn’t really matter what the former thinks as long as the latter still loves him.

Yeah. I mean, Polanski got his share of the royalties when I bought Chinatown on DVD, he’s not getting more every time I watch it. It does get a bit harder to enjoy each time though, given the, well, plot of that movie...

When I was a teen, I did James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. OK, it’s an old movie and a pretty generic look, but I was still disappointed that nobody got it. :(

Hey, cut him a break. The dude had a *lot* of people to pay off.

At least this time they got the asshole while he’s still alive.

Twitter’s weak excuse for this is that as a major public figure, Trump’s tweets are an important part of the historical record and must be preserved, even when they’re threatening nuclear war.

I think the awkward thing is setting a sci-fi story in an ‘Asianised’ future with strikingly few Asians in it, at least in prominent roles. (As opposed to, you know, just setting it in Asia.) It means you can have this film that’s ‘like Japan, but with white people!’

That doesn’t really answer the question of how she acquired thousands of online followers in the first place, rather than any other model. But then internet fame has always been a mystery to me.

Wow, Woody Allen has aged terribly.

Ask for signatures and/or selfies.

It’s one of those neologisms that makes sense in print, but doesn’t lend itself to verbal pronounciation in real life. (Rhymes with minx?)
Although, you could have said that about ‘LGBT’ and that one caught on, so who knows...

False. Ben Affleck has never been cool.

I look forward to seeing your proposals for building a large organisation in which sexual harassment, assaults and resulting cover-ups don’t occur, because we haven’t been able to come up with one yet.

I think the thing is, three hours is a long time to sit through something if you don’t know if you’ll like it. Things like The Lord of the Rings movies, audiences had a pretty good idea if they would enjoy them (at least after the first one, but even from the action-filled trailers). Titanic and Avatar were likewise…

Ryan Gosling has to be at least second least appealing, though. Does he even have fans? I know there was a ‘woke Ryan Gosling’ meme a few years ago, but I thought that was mostly ironic.

Is it so hard to believe they didn’t know? Whenever a story like this comes out, people start talking about an ‘open secret’ that everybody knew, but there are always many people who didn’t. I mean, that’s the evil thing about an ‘open secret’ - it assumes everyone shares knowledge that they actually don’t. Who would…