Yeah, it sounds like Williams’ estate was happy for the studio to use outtakes given it was only two lines for a centenary celebration short. This sounds like a reasonable exception to Williams’ will to me, but if you’re going to get mad at anyone surely it would be the estate, not Disney.

Revenue sharing is a well-established method of employee remuneration in many industries (from that well-known Marxist rag Investopedia,  https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/010915/how-does-revenue-sharing-work-practice.asp), so I don’t know how you came to the conclusion that it ‘is something no other union has…

If they found 18% of TikTok is news-related while 88% is football-related, then their algorithm is utter shite.

Why aren’t these dealers being laid up on fraud charges ten times a week?

Really? The answer is right there in the quoted research. The cheap tickets are sold first, then the more expensive ones, and so on. So the best strategy is...shop around, buy well ahead of time if you can, and choose less popular flights if you can. This has been widely known since forever.

Another writer dropping in to agree. There’s nothing wrong with using real events in fiction, but if your characters are easily identifiable as real people from your descriptions, then you have a responsibility not to misrepresent them to readers especially if they’re not otherwise public figures.

‘Semi-racist’? Pierce’s casual bigotry was one of the show’s overused running jokes. He’s not a card-carrying KKK member and can sit comfortably in a room with Black and Asian people, sure, but if you want to make a racism scale, ‘semi’ shouldn’t be on it.

Not sure if you’re aware, but Walters was miserable a lot of the time making AD because of relentless bullying and harassment by Tambor. She even broke into tears about it during one of the cast’s promo interviews when it becomes clear that several other cast members thought it was just a bit of light-hearted ribbing…

I guess I can’t speak entirely to Snooder87 either. It’s just the way I read it.

That’s not what I would call ‘real life consequences.’

Masterful cross-examination!

The Black Cat also has one of the greatest lines of dialog in the history of cinema.

I think the argument is that they will go bankrupt if they focus on bigger budget blockbusters because the success rate is not nearly as predictable they’d like to think. I’m really pleased for the filmmakers and A24 that EEAAO was such a success, but it’s dangerous to think they can reliably replicate that without a…

Vicarious schadenfreude. How else are we supposed to compensate for the crushing ennui of our own lives?

We get plenty of something stories here, I’ll have you know, and they’re posted almost as soon as someone else reports them.

And the brilliance of the movie is that your interpretation is one of several completely consistent with what has been shown.

I would go back in time and kill Mt Vesuvius.

Or give his driver an updated itinerary.

‘Paint It Blech.’

Pedant mode: platonic love is non-sexual, plutonic love means death is involved.