On the flip-side, I doubt that many people would be willing to hire a defense attorney who turned around and publicly admitted their client’s guilt, regardless of circumstances. I assume he’s still employed to speak in Jeremy’s defence and interests by whomever has power of attorney for him. 

You mean he could have self-owned even more?!

There’s something slightly amusing about the somewhat bitchy “with rather less respect to Love, Simon” dig on the Fire Island slide... followed by the glowing / fawning tribute to Love, Simon a mere handful of slides later. 

Sorry Mel, I’m happy you’re still with us, but this looks absolutely terrible.

Let it not be said that I have contributed nothing of value to the world. 

Eh, I stand by it. Ezra Miller’s douchiness has to be graded on a curve. Compared to some of the pictures in these articles:

Holy shit, a photo of Ezra Miller in which they doesn’t look like a complete douche!

Francis Ford Coppola: You guys... know it’s me, right?

Surely if it was being sponsored they’ve put “try not to write it as if you were a snide eighth-grader” somewhere in the contract as well.

Hot-take; a man who approaches his relations for costuming advice and doesn’t realise that their suggestion that he should dress up as an actual literal Nazi is either (a) a joke or (b) a prank is probably not that smart.

This all seems kinda... insufferable. 

Nepotism is widespread across human society and the discussion about it in Hollywood can maybe be a bit overwrought, sure, but the whole “nobody complains about plumbers / electricians / other working-class-joe jobs being nepotistic!” counter-argument is kind of ridiculous. Like, no shit they don’t, because following…

Shut the fuck up Donny! You are out of your element!

I mean, seems like they were pretty on the ball this time, though. 

‘Course you realise, ‘dis means war.

As an aside, if the Drew Gillis who comes up when you google him and check images is the same Drew Gillis who contributed to this, then he might want to dial back the macho posturing about talking shit and getting hit.

Personally, one of the most offensive things about all this was the way the AV Club kept running article after article about The Slap while smarmily trying to pretend they were above it all at the same time.

Well... yeah. The entertainment industry is a global cultural taste-making behemoth which can bestow (or continue to bestow) massive wealth, fame, power and privilege upon those fortunate enough to get a foot in the door and gain success. The plumbing industry fixes sinks and toilets. Not that you can’t make a good…

Sure, but that’s where the ‘noir’ part comes in. It’s just a stylistic twist on the conventions of a “kids investigate crimes” genre, playing them as if the protagonist was in a Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett style world where it’s one loner against a world that wants to kick the shit out of him rather than…

IIRC Brick is kind of a noir take on an Encyclopedia Brown-style kid detective adventure, though. Calling the police would be the logical thing to do in the real world, sure, but I think the whole point is that it’s playing on that particular genre quirk.