I don't know enough about him to know if he's a douchebag or not. I don't much care. He had a decent voice, and it worked for Sugar Ray.

Sorry, I don't agree. They had a sound that rather resembled the early Beatles. "Everyday" and "Someday" were catchy pop songs.

Yeah, I'm not making any pitch for the books as literature or the movies as art. My own nieces couldn't stand them because they seemed to make a woman's happiness center around the man in her life. But they spoke to a lot of people in their Wuthering Heights Lite way, and I don't blame anyone for liking them. Plus,…

Well, Camp precedes it, but yup, she's in there.

Thank you for that. Will be looking for it.

Really nicely put. That's my own memory of it. Granted, I'm a guy, and I was in college already when it came out. But me and my friends were glad it was there, and glad teen girls had a magazine like that.

I loved Bosom Buddies, but switch that out with Bachelor Party, and I hear ya!

No one in those movies was really bad, it's just always been bizarrely fashionable to look down on anyone associated with the franchise. They're just movies, people. Disliking them does not constitute an ethical stance.

The first season's cheesy goodness should not be derided. Otherwise, yes, absolutely yes.

Never got the hate for Sugar Ray, who were a good enough pop band/one-minute wonder. Yeah, they only had, at most, three good songs. I guess Matt McGrath had kinda a frat quality to him (was he actually in one?). So what?

Hmm..are you claiming you are offended?

Is that what happened? I always wondered. I stopped following it, and suddenly it was gone. It really was awesome in top form. Did a larger publishing group buy it to destroy it (like Random House did with Black Lizard in the same time period), or did some sort of corporate hubris develop with the original company?

Very much this. Well said.

AV Club: where tired cliches are awarded eternity.

It's a terrific movie, in some ways atypical of Tarantino which is probably why people exclude it a lot. But I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't like it.

It's a tricky issue. For instance, as a gay man, I'm glad that men don't have to go to specifically gay bars to meet each other, and see their issues covered by the media enough that there's no need for specifically gay magazines and newspapers.

Oh, I'm not denying they are around at all. It just isn't "prophetic" to have a film with bullies and misogynists. They've always been around. There were quite a number of them back then, and long before then.

In the Company of Men is great, disturbing black comedy, but you'd have to be ignorant of pop culture history to call it "prophetic." In many ways, it was in fact dated, secondary characters on the popular series thirtysomething, and protagonists in the hit movie Wall Street and the best-selling book American Psycho…

Do women musicians and women concert-goers themselves want Lilith Fair to be relevant again? That's a more interesting topic to me. Of course, finding that out would be journalism not navel-gazing. I tend to think the answer is no, that festivals have their heyday and are gone, but who knows?

I thought Louie was a great series, though I'm not sure I've caught the last season or two (I binge watch on Netflix), and this article demonstrates part of the reason why: he never cared about doing the show as some sort of corporate commitment, but as an experiment exploring in various places where his mind was at.…