Was she always in such a sad place inside? Does the movie go into what made her so sad and scared that she turned to drugs, alcohol, and bad men in the first place?

A couple of autumns ago, I went to see a talk/interview about the origins and progress of Sesame Street with Joan Ganz Cooney at The Museum of the Moving Image. It was fascinating to hear how she and her friends, all of them in media, none of them especially rich, but who did have ideas and a couple of connections…

You mean the UK Public Information Office is not going to make a scary video about it?

He needs to grow the fuck up and quit that “Jim Bob” shit. What, this ridiculous name is supposed to make him relatable or something? What a fake-ass jerk. And his name is James.

I was raised by an asshole, who was awfully surprised when I got the fuck away from her as a teen and cut off contact. She wasn’t quite the pro at gaslighting a kid as she thought she was, either, womp womp!

Is that Robert Webb from Mitchell and Webb playing Jesus? I love that guy; he makes me laugh so with that rubbery, expressive face he’s got.

Yes, Meryl as Barbara. I remember as a child watching Ms. Barrie on Barney Miller.

This is a movie, you know.

Thank you, Dr. Schultz! I’ll definitely look into these products!

I have Halle Berry-colored skin, but I have some dark marks on my face that haven’t gone away from picking at zits in the past. Are the prescription hydroquinone creams dangerous to use? If so, what are my options? I wear sunscreen to keep them from getting worse, and I would love to get rid of these marks in a safe…

People in my block of flats will have their rents raised or find themselves evicted if the management company finds anyone with a dishwasher, washer or dryer installed in this 80+ year old building.

Nope!

And of course, prices simply MUST go up every year, right? Because rising tides trickle down or some such shit?

I had no one teaching me social and emotional skills like this in the 70s and 80s, but something like that would’ve helped me a lot as a kid raised by a mentally ill and otherwise abusive person. I ended up being afraid of all adults, even after I became an adult. I was terrified of authority, of being punished for…

We totally, like, did this before: Puttin’ on The Hits.

Surely Maher was trolling. C’mon. Ignore him.

I'm old enough to have seen the film The Wiz at its first run in movie theaters in 1978 (my 3rd grade class went on a field trip to see it). Even then we knew Diana Ross was too old to play Dorothy. Too bad Stephanie Mills didn't have enough star power for the film. Stephanie Mills at least deserves a cameo in this…

I have actually been looking for a dresser doily to protect the top of an antique chest of drawers (1910!) I recently acquired, and not even the various "Aunt Sally's" boutiques in town seem to have them. :|

This is from at least 1975. When I was little, maybe 6, I saw the commercial and asked my guardian, "What's VD? Is it candy?" It was the only time I ever saw her blush.

Totally. I've seen clips of her in the 1930s in a low-budget movie where she led her terrific jazz choir, and I could only shake my head at how underutilized she was in Hollywood in front of the camera, if not behind it. So she wasn't gorgeous. She had charisma, presence and talent. Hollywood can be so dumb.