At her time, studios tended to drug up their actresses for maximum performance like mafia-owned race horses until they got requiem-for-a-dreamed. (The documentary „Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story“ goes into detail there.) Same shit happened to Judy Garland.

My brother said something interesting about the Kimmel/Carolla version of The Man Show: “This is funny, but if you actually believe any of what they’re saying, you’re an asshole.” Rogan and Stanhope seemed to really believe it, and that made it gross. 

He killed that Kodak presentation though, you gotta give him that. 

That Phil Collins crap beat this song, “Blame Canada,” and “Save Me." Banner year for Oscar stupidity.

Still better than the Doug Stanhope/Joe Rogan version.

Yeah, there’s something about the tone and overall sympathy toward a double murderer in this review that didn’t sit well with me, either. The article seems to insist that we should approach Betty Broderick as the victim rather than the perpetrator. By all accounts, including her own, she entered her ex-husband’s house…

There’s a lot of people desperate to equate fictional antiheroes with real murderers because those people aren’t capable of making the distinction between reality and fiction and assume everyone else is equally incapable.

The first series also glossed over a lot of inconvenient truths. I did listen to the Dirty John podcasts and found myself becoming more and more frustrated with almost everyone connected to this, especially the mother. Even after she finds out her boyfriend, who EVERYONE in her life is warning her about, is a total…

“O.J. Simpson . . . a man pushed to the limit . . . now he’s gonna do what he has to do!”

Sounds like a Barry Manilow song.

Lifelong San Diegan here. I went to school with one of the Broderick boys when this happened (we were in middle school at the time; his younger brother was in elementary school). He was in school the day of the murders and never seen again after. It was really sad.

I’m torn about this. This is tribal behavior and can be bad for both sides. I’m glad that people that believe in science are “speaking up” and not allowing a blatant disregard of taking necessary precautions but at the same time, those people appear to have almost (no guns, no Maga hats, no flags in plain view) sunk…

Leave it to the AV Club to not only use the term “gas-lighting” incorrectly, but also attempt to paint a literal psychopath as a sympathetic character just because she’s a woman.

I understand where this comes from, but in the end... no. Just no. Not another “oh, the murderer was PUSHED TO DO IT BECAUSE...” portrait. I honestly hate the “imagine if the sexes were reversed” thing because often it comes from a disingenuous place, but I think it’s apt here. If I’m reading the review right, Dan’s…

I haven’t seen this and I’m not going to, so take my opinion for it’s worth (not much), but: murdering your children’s father and a presumably innocent other person is, like, maybe not so relatable? Or defensible? This woman had many, many other options, including leaving her husband years ago.

Back in 2013 I worked on a musical about ‘Dr.’ Brinkley called Roads Courageous. His granddaughter came up to San Antonio to see it. It was great fun. She was cool.

31 Months of Oscars

That’s cool that that aired.  He released that and I think 5 others as a collection of short films.  My favorite is The Alphabet, which is like educational programming from hell.

She’s a great character actor in anything of course, but I thought she was particularly good as the co-worker of fraudster Stephen Glass who was (at least initially) convinced that he was being treated unfairly in Shattered Glass.

I started reading it at the outset too. I agree with the comment below - The Stand does the best job I’ve ever seen of charting the rapid breakdown into chaos caused by a disaster of some kind. The problem is that after everyone gets to Boulder, King spends at least 350 pages, literally the length of an entire novel…