Adams's role was actually much bigger than Cooper's. She and Bale were the stars, but she made a lower percentage than Jeremy Renner, whose role was an extended cameo. It's pretty blatant and indefensible.

Some people dont understand this from the restaurant/chef POV, so I'll try to explain here.

Is this a performance art piece?

Okay, so I understand that she has made some racist tweets or whatever it was (I don't know the specifics), and she was stupid to have that "slave-master" line (wtf was she thinking?), and that is definitely an important part of the context here. But what, really, is wrong with anything she said?

Also, you seem to bring up kente cloth a lot. Do you know anything else about Black culture? Beyond what you learned in grade school Black history month segments?

So you say Tip is being patronizing and then say "Did you know he grew up in the suburbs, not 8 Mile?" to me?

I just cannot stand her. I mean, not that my Black ass means anything to her. But:

If Bradley Cooper said something about the pay disparity, it would just make him the More Sexy-iest Man Alive. If Amy Adams said something about the pay disparity, she could be in a cat fight! Speaking out! Diva behavior!

The sexist headline potential is virtually endless when a lady has something to say about…

Is the chef supposed to send the busboy out to get a bottle of ranch dressing? First, the cost of the bottle (which will be thrown out afterward) cuts into the profits. Second, the busboy not being able to do the job he's there to do cuts into the profits.

I once dated an abusive asshole that insisted on 7 pumps of vanilla in his iced latte. I should have seen the signs, man.

Bullshit. Going to this kind of restaurant is like going to the Louvre and asking them to hang up some fucking Thomas Kinkade paintings. You're asking for an experience they don't fucking offer. Go somewhere that does, and stop wasting people's time.

I sincerely doubt that there was any ranch dressing in that kitchen to be had.

Until she gets knocked up and starts losing every argument for some strange reason.

it made sense to me according to the timeline, which indicates she would have been about 16. when you are underage and someone sticks a hand up your business, bringing up parents should be quite acceptable. especially if the lawyer in question was likely to know that judge x's daughter was underage.

And Skynet will also have better rap skills.

That's kind of a characteristic of the genre isn't it? All things considered, I think her characters are significantly better fleshed out than anyone in the Lord of the Rings.

The only person in the Potterverse wielding Deus ex machina is Dumbledore. He constantly pulls out spells/knowledge to solve problems the characters have been working on the entire book. That's his thing. That's why she kills him off before the fight with Voldemort.

So? Deus ex machina is used by: Shakespeare, Euripides, Dickens, Tolkien, Monty Python, Moliere- I could go on. Just let people have their fandoms.

Around this same time, I was also discovering Tolstoy and Zora Nealy Hurtston. I enjoy the high brow stuff on occasion, too. To me, literature is like food; I can appreciate a good artisan cheese and still dig on Velveeta now and again.