Austin Powers basically predicted today’s media landscape, so you’re not far off!

It does have the single best line in the entire trilogy, though:

Exactly. Spears didn’t commit any crimes like dick slashing or money laundering.

This clip just reminds me of how little I enjoy watching Fallon.

“But... she was nice to gay people after she lost everything got caught!”

As charming as Holland is, his version is a tad too nervous and I think Garfield’s version was the one I thought most closely resembled the Spiderman and the Peter Parker I knew from the comics and from the cartoon in terms of sense of humor/sarcasm/smart-aleckiness.

Sony corporate: Listen, Garfield, you can’t let anyone know you’re in the new Spider-man movie because then no one will want to see it.

Because of people like this who are easily swayed by platitudes because they grew up in conservative homes, racially homogeneous communities, theocratic local governments and were taught to accept hollow platitudes and everything else as “goodness”.

The mass of walking contradictions this woman apparently was seems like it could make for a good movie, but as a culture, we are absolute shit at dealing with people who did both incredibly compassionate and incredibly cruel things at the same time. The internet especially demands boxes into which people rarely slot…

“But... she was nice to gay people after she lost everything!”

Jessica Chastain?

The Hollywood Reporter completely savaged this film, I’m surprised to see it getting such mild reactions elsewhere.

The fact that you don’t like Wet Hot American Summer or the sublime “The Baxter” makes me think you need to be ignored.

I feel like Michael Showalter should have had the title role based on his Miss Patty Pancakes performance.

Tammy Faye carries comparatively less responsibility than her husband for the con-artistry they half-sincerely (if that makes sense) committed. But she wasn’t guiltless. And their trajectory is a living condemnation of the health-&-wealth/word-of-faith message, and how it corrupts people’s character.

During the televangelist heyday I had a High School girlfriend whose mother, who was living on a fixed income, would send her money to these people. They were dirt poor, barely getting by, but she would become so moved by Tammy Faye’s pleas in particular that she’d pick up the phone and contribute hundreds of dollars…

The season of Surreal Life she was on featured Ron Jeremy kissing her against her will & otherwise being the rapey asshole that has led to him being in his current circumstances, which made me more sympathetic to her than I expected

Right?

I’m most excited to see D’Onofrio as Jerry Falwell.

I see a lot of arguments that this movie is glorifying or apologizing for the shitty things they did (well, mostly Jim did), but I don’t think that’s the case. It’s easy to reduce them to caricatures, just like it’s easy to reduce every televangelist to caricature, but that wouldn’t explain why they still rake in…