Dude, you are on Jezebel . . .maybe this isn’t quite appropriate for this venue?

So glad you and your short firm searches are back.

They look Asian to me with dark hair, but then I generally assume most people in anime films are meant to be Asian, not European. Some, by the way, are darker skinned than others.

But, the main thing is that in an anime there’s a fair amount of subjectivity--Americans frequently think anime characters look white when…

It’s a business--when you’re risking tens of millions of dollars and are counting on a big return to cover the cost of this movie and the lesser ones, you hedge your bets. Casting risks are taken in lower budget films. In the caste of GITS, ScarJo is the only A-list name and she does have a track record in being able…

Okay, think of it this way: SF big-budget movie, but not a well-known franchise here. Studio wants a star to help guarantee an audience. There aren’t very many women stars with a proven track record in SF--Jennifer Lawrence, ScarJo. Ten years ago, Angeline Jolie, but not now. Would Emma Stone be a better choice than…

Well, the Japanese version didn’t make Ged white and the time she wrote Earthsea making the hero quietly non-white was a groundbreaker. So, I think she went along with the Japanese version because even if the world depicted wasn’t multiracial like the actual Earthsea world, they were at least getting Ged right.

Uh, did you *look* at the cast? It’s multiracial.

Yeah, I’m kind of over it given that we’re talking about a purple-eyed cyborg. It’s an American version of a Japanese anime, using American actors and a multiracial cast isn’t the end of the world. When Bollywood did a version of Pride and Prejudice no one demanded that the actors be white Brits.

Nah, it just means you’re paying attention. Dude’s a racist, he says racist things. Like, a lot.

Starring this because it should be higher. I think Disney was trying the best it could by using a child model of the same ethnicity as the character—the brownfacing charge seems to be about the “wrong” people potentiallly using the costume instead of how Disney actually presented it.

First space, yeah--because there’s some privacy and the guy shows some sense of fiscal responsibility. (Okay, I’m old and married, so I think about these things.

Second space--no way. I get claustrophobia when I can’t sit up--total mood killer.

Sure. If the book were written in 2016, I think you could make that case, but in 1963, it’s pretty clear. It’s also clear in the description of other family members and Meg’s interactions with other characters—particularly Calvin—he’s the brainy offshoot of a lower-class Irish-American family, socially beneath the…

No. It’s quite clear she was written as white. I simply mentioned the hair because of how it’s described—specifically, it comes out straight on one side, curly on the other when she and her mother try to pin it up (i.e. curl it, something that was common at the time.) Not really a surprise since the book was published…

Sorry, I’m going to be that person. Meg is white in the book—her mouse-brown hair that won’t hold a curl properly is pure white-girl hair, which becomes long, flowing and chestnut when she’s an adult. She’s also 14 in high school, not a preteen, so this girl looks young for Meg, though maybe she won’t by the time of…

Wow, I just don’t get this. The plot arc is just so tight, I don’t see how you’d stretch it out over six episodes. The picnic is the climax, there’s not that much before, so, what? You spend three-four episodes post-picnic?

And, then what? Use the disputed ending chapter that was published after Lindsay’s death?

Okay,…

Priscilla’s a pediatrician who, unlike Zuck, finished Harvard. From everything I’ve ever read about her, she’s perfectly able to take a stand when she needs to do. Actually, I’ve always thought it reflected well on Zuckerberg that he married a) a smart ambitious woman and b) someone who was with him before he struck…

Anyone pointed out yet that the original naked pregnant celeb was Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair back in the Dark Ages? And Blac Chyna is pretty much doing her pose in one of the pix, but with more tats and smaller diamonds? Here ya go, young ‘ins:

Did you testify under oath, though, that you hadn’t been abused? Broaddrick did. *That’s* the big reason she was dismissed—that and her allegations occurred more than 10 years after the alleged incident.

Here’s the thing—she swore under oath that she wasn’t raped and then changed her story later. Once that happens, you’re pretty much dealing with an unreliable witness. She was also cheating on her husband at the time and was known to, well, lie.

I had a great time in Bali—but it was before Elizabeth Gilbert went looking for love there and during a political crisis, so very few tourists. Tires burning in the streets, riots in the capital city, but other than that . . . ah the Third World.