…and where is David Arquette right now?

Now as I understand it, this chap — who does not look a great deal like Ryan Gosling — has in fact (occasionally) found genuine 'employment' as an actual Ryan Gosling look-a-like. I mean, everyone has already pointed out that he doesn't look much like him (of course, it is part of the Marvellous Genius of O'Neal to…

Upvoted for putsch gig and cleve albino, in particular, and for all-round spot-on believability, in general.

If I could weigh in with a recommendation, I thought The Names was great, outstanding really. I sympathize not being able to get into his books sometimes - I for one just couldn't get going with Libra - but I found The Names a little more focused and generally readable, so perhaps it's a good gateway novel. It's…

I actually think their styles complement each other well, and I should imagine they have a fairly friendly professional relationship, if any - they both rose to fame at about the same time (late nineties. I'd say), so I think it's quite unfair to say anybody stole anybody's 'schtick'.

God, that quote's brilliant - so, so fitting, and so wise. Rather trite to spell it out like this, but hopefully readers will never stop harvesting the crops that he planted.

Damien Rice: for those who find plain rice too exciting.

Man, I like Ignatiy Vishnevetsky - upon reading the excellent prepositional plural 'cuts away' (instead of the altogether pedestrian 'cut-aways') I scrolled back up to see who wrote this review, and was pleased to find my assumption confirmed. A+.

Faszinierende Diskussion, sehr wohlüberlegt und auch besonnen argumentiert - ich stimme dir vollkommend zu. Aber eigentlich wollte ich nur sagen, dass (für einen vermutlichen Nichtmuttersprachler - ?) dein Englisch auf einem schier unglaublichen Niveau ist. Ich kann mich kaum auf Englisch so gewählt ausdrücken - und…

So that's it after twenty years - so long, good luck?

"…he’s essentially embodying the very notion of blackness" - anybody else think this was a little overwrought? One could just as easily have said that the hairstyles are short-hand for changing black culture over the decades - but even writing that made me feel silly, they're pretty much just 'look at this goofy…

I bet you do!

That's amazing - I had to look it up to make sure you weren't making a very dry joke, but Evelyn Waugh really did (albeit briefly and unhappily) marry a woman also named Evelyn. Neat tidbit: 'Among their friends they quickly became known as "He-Evelyn" and "She-Evelyn".'

Yeah, just the fact that - thanks to its apparently miraculous combination of goofiness, genuine catchiness, and 2012-Internet-viral-ability - this video is one of the most widely seen cultural assets in all of human history is pretty awesome. Take that, the Bible! Take that, Mona Lisa! Oppan Gangnam Style!

O'Neal is surely working on it - my immediate reaction on reading that Guardian article was to head over here and see what the response was. I shall be waiting with bated breath, as it does seem like an extraordinary story, even ignoring O'Neal's very special love of LaBeouf.

I enjoyed the parallels between indistinguishable guys fighting
on ice and by-the-numbers cookie-cutter pop-punk: I've never heard of Ron
Hextall or Powernap before, but 1m35s was enough for me to form an adequate opinion of their entire respective careers.

Absolutely. Obviously it's just bullshit clickbait, so more fool us for even engaging with it, but even the descriptions are disingenuous - saying changes are made 'with a simple edit' or cut makes it sound at least a little like something creative has been done with the source material - as they are, one could just…

That's not quite how I saw it: I thought the 'upgrades' bit was really just a gag playing on the fact that, in the first film, he was able to parry the agents' attacks with just one hand, and now needed both. The OP's point still stands, because of course if Neo can stop bullets and make swords fly through the air and…

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Whether celebrities actually believe in the shit they spout sometimes is an interesting point, actually. I've had the same thoughts about Scientology; that is, wondering if the people involved genuinely believe in that bullshit - and here by extension, if Kanye West genuinely believes this bullshit. If it's him just…