I am the non-standard Jez reader (In my opinion at least, white male, 25 and been on Gawker sister sites since I was 17) but was a Gawker Alum who migrated over after The Dark Times. I have ALWAYS hated Chris Hardwick. He was off-putting and gave me the exact same fake funny/date rapey vibe like a guy I went to…

I’ve long felt there was something dark and mean just behind the unabashed enthusiasm Hardwick always displayed, but tried to chalk it up to being influenced by negative comments about him on social media. I should’ve trusted my intial instincts, and am so grateful to Chloe for sharing her experiences. Toxic…

Yeah, if someone is screaming in pain, a freakin’ cell phone mic is gonna pic that up in the same room, much less the lav mic or a boom.

I’m a former TV producer and I’ve done four shows for Bravo and just so you know the process, the production company puts the show together and then it goes through anywhere between 3 and 10 rounds of notes with the network. They had multiple opportunities to see those lines and say “they’re too mean, take them out”…

An old column of Bill Simmons involved the the question of whether Bull Duram was a chick flick or a sports movie. He couldn’t seem to decide. It’s simple: Bull Durham is a chick flick, but with such true-to-life sports (aside from Tim Robbins’ throwing motion) that it doesn’t matter. Sports movie payoffs involve the…

We moved to Durham in 1988; I think it was the following year I started going to games regularly with my dad, at which they would refer to the Bulls as “the team that made the movie famous”.

The more you watch and the older you get, I’m sure a lot of the ways other people find pleasure and meaning in their lives seem ripe for you to pass judgment on.

Annie’s house - it’s a darker color now

You see Hathaway looking unnatural as a blond. I see a specific aesthetic choice to put her in an unnatural Barbie hair color to create tension when she’s onscreen or to allude to something intrinsically mismatched in her character.

Yep— it reminds me of childhood. Plain cold boiled shrimp with ketchup & horseradish with lemons on the side that you don’t touch. What could be more elemental?

OMG OLD WHITE MAN FOOD FTW

A) I don’t know if it’s common knowledge that “masseuse” is female.

Ashley is gorgeous and much smarter than most TV fans will realize... but man did she basically just stalk this guy for yearrrrrrrrrs until he finally broke down. I like both of them but I don’t see this going well. Stockholm Syndrome doesn’t last forever!

I don’t get were this “It didn’t fit” critique is coming from. In what world would this woman not have a dress that fit her properly?? Like, you can dislike the style of the dress, but the people running around as if she was married in a dress she got off the sale rack at David’s Bridal is just a lil’ too much for me.

HARD disagree.

I am SURE someone has written an exhaustive hyper detailed breakdown of her gown down to which trees the silkworms that made the silk ate, but a quick look at the gown shows a likely un-stretchy duchesse type silk satin (no stretch), a portrait neckline, and with a sleeve length that is AFAIK dictated by…

This will be the fifth version of the story. The original, 1932's What Price Hollywood, starring Constance Bennett, is still a powerful landmark pre-code dramatic film. By far the second best of the four so far.