I have grown up in California (definitely NOT the South) and from a family of cooks who made great cranberry sauce, and all of us STILL had a fondness for that canned sauce on the table. Those little can lines just show you where to slice it.

Thing is, it is not that Herbert did not write strong female characters. Many of the strongest and most powerful characters in the books are female. Chani just isn’t one of them. She is important to Paul, but not really the reader.

The simple fact is, like a lot of laws, we don’t have solid enforcement of the existing rules. How about, if you have X number of speeding offenses (3?) your license is gone for X years so you don’t kill someone. Get 2 DUI’s? The first one was too many already. More than that you lose your license for X years, or for…

So you nailed every one of my own thoughts on these. As you state, the only one of these I am excited for is the only one that people don’t really think of as a “Marvel movie”.

Well we don’t know if he really was that arrogant, or just said something like “this is not normally my thing, but change my mind”.

Yeah, none of this sounds that unusual. Don’t want to do petty tasks, don’t work as an assistant for someone with a big ego. The only one I have an issue with is the back scratching. That is just ewww. The rest? That is just the job. Take a different one.

EXACTLY my reaction. But the trailer does look pretty sweet.

So.... she is in a profession where she plays various roles. Some of those characters she plays may face adversity in their stories. If that is something that crosses into her personal view of herself, she should not be in that profession.

Lets not be naive here. Drug abuse IS one of the ultimate factors in this case. He trashed his body, was in the hospital dozens of times and had 14 drug related surgeries to save his life from the opioid abuse, and was assumed to not likely to survive multiple times. Later when his heart gives out in a hot tub at a…

Sure, I get that. But his claim that anyone who watched them on set might think there was a problem too makes me think there is more truth to it than he is willing to admit. But true, I was not there.

So obviously none of us actually know the guy, and I have no opinion on him personally nor whatever he believes in...

The only one I am mostly intrigued by is Napoleon. Marvels feels like it came and went forever ago. The first Wish trailer had me interested, but the latest one far less so for some reason. I agree with others that the Thanksgiving films looks too different in tone from the original fake one, which makes sense sense…

Nothing against Stumptown, but can we just be honest and agree that the sole reason is likely to be that Stumptown will provide their coffee for just a little less in cost to the airline than Starbucks?

The movie DID suck. But it also did extremely well and did not flop, so no one has blamed her for it flopping. The is ALSO terrible in it, but that just goes along with all of the other performances.

Well no one “crowd funded” the release of the notes. Her own legal team submitted the notes on her behalf to bolster her case. They then went into the public record, as does all evidence. They knew that, but decided it was worth submitting them anyway. Then people paid the normal fees to get a copy of the record. To…

So... sort of a Hot Tub Time Machine sort of vibe?

Thanks, very interesting reading.

But I say it “works” because, even if people joke about it, the show ran forever and was very popular. Same thing with Midsomer Murders. That show was so popular that even after the main character left, they just brought in his “cousin” (or something like that) so they could keep using the same last name and just kept…

Saw this while traveling in London. Was shocked that it was a thing, but definitely interesting viewing. And definitely not as sexy as one would expect.

I think we have to just let the shark jump and accept it on the whole “how many murders can there realistically BE in this building”. It works just fine for Jessica Fletcher (as someone else has mentioned).