If these guys need adult supervision to run their frat houses to prevent them from engaging in criminal misconduct, maybe they shouldn’t have frat houses to begin with?

It’s just really sad hearing people who were so great at entertaining people that it became a perfect facade for suppressing problems of their own. I’m reminded of this anecdote from Roger Ebert’s Great Movies retrospective on “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” about John Candy and it just kills me because before his…

I used to tell my son, “Do you know how you become a legend? Die.”

The final SNL episode that Hartman and Farley were in as cast mates, had the last shot of them hugging each other and waving goodbye to the camera. Within less than a year of that episode airing, they were both dead. Tragic...

people always say "SNL sucks now", but just take a look at that waiter skit. SNL has always sucked.

Missed one: In those public situations where touching is a courtesy, treat women like you would a man. If you don’t touch the small of a guy’s back when walking through a crowded bar, then don’t do that when it’s a woman either.

Even with my friends, I say “I’m going to hug you now, okay?” and wait for response before going in for a hug. If they seem like they aren’t in a place for a hug (being upset in some way), I ask “would you like a hug?” and respect if it’s a no. And those are my friends!

As a trans person - these sci-fi storylines tend to be way less than satisfying, though. It comes off the same way as when they use “shapeshifter” as the default power for a transgender character in superhero comics and say it’s inclusive. They’re basically “othering” trans characters as aliens, or making transition a…

I also loved Gunhill Road which starred the amazing trans actor Harmony Santana.

I totally get the point you’re making. Really I do. But it’s not impossible to do this.

Only the vast majority of insured, or independently wealthy trans men. Trust me, there are plenty of viable actors who are pre-hormone.

The rhino, who was given the name Donnie, now resides in a new home in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.

The more practical solution would be to tell stories about trans people lives that amount to more than gawking at mid-transition bodies.

The fundamental problem with this movie isn’t the casting of a cis actor to play a trans person. It’s this obsession with transition narratives and *THE CHANGE* that cis society has. People don’t really want to see trans people being their authentic selves: they want to see the trans version of blackface.

But the character is a teen being played by a teen actress. If they were to hire a teen f to m trans boy, he could very well be in a similar stage of transition. Getting a parent’s support might be a sticking point if they did cast a minor for the role though.

Or, OR, they could have cast an actual trans person.

1. Hire a male nanny (and hope your husband isn’t gay).
   

An unfortunate (to him) side effect of Hitler beginning to purge Germany of Jews in 1938 was that he also purged Germany’s nuclear physics/chemistry field. They probably would have had the bomb (maybe not at the scale of the U.S. bomb) first had the vast majority of their Jewish-German scientists not wisely gotten the…

On a related note, please contact me if you’d like to help digitize my father’s [significantly smaller] collection of PBS documentaries, major ‘80s and ‘90s series finales (M*A*S*H was even recorded on SP!), and movies of the week.

I have written this before, but I am a Baby Boomer born before the Salk vaccine. Polio was terrifying, for children and their parents. I went to nursery school with a girl who contracted polio as a baby. She wore heavy metal braces and could not run and play with the other kids. There is also a post-polio syndrome…