The point I made (which was in response to The Hole I Made bringing up Cynthia Nixon) was that many of these celebrities will go and seek out high-level office in states (or federally) that are politically relevant and important (due to their economy, population, location, etc), and much of the notoriety that Cynthia…

And when was the last time Idaho was a nationally, politically relevant state? Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

Further, considering that Idaho has been GOP controlled (Governorship, State House, State Senate) since 1995, it’s clear that even the people of Idaho wouldn’t care that a somewhat famous actress, who got famous for…

You could attribute it to the criticism, or maybe (and this is what I truly believe), it was simply stress. Going from a position to where you’re essentially coddled and most of your whims are gonna be met by everyone around you (and if they aren’t, you can easily replace them), to one where not only are you…

I think the issue that people have is celebrities being bandied about as potential political candidates for rather high-level and significant positions in incredibly important states (or federal positions such as Congress), solely because they’re either famous (see all of the Dwayne Johnson for President) or because…

The issue is that is that a sizable portion of California is rather conservative (let’s not forget that Reagan was governor and Nixon represented California in the House and Senate), Gray Davis was historically unpopular (whereas Abbott is still more popular than any would-be Republican or Democrat running against…

Yeah, mixing that up is kind of a big deal. Sure, both teams where blue and white, but there’s very little cross-over in the fandoms (and getting that info wrong while anywhere near Lexington or near a UK fan might get you hurt).

Yeah, you’re off the mark here.

To take nothing away from people who work hard to maintain a nice physique and are willing to invest in skincare and healthy eating, but on a fundamental level, much of what a person looks like, and what society finds attractive (specifically to the point of being able to earn a…

You’re right, but it also ignores the reality that the PS3 was released while the PS2 was still getting good games, it didn’t have nearly as popular 1st-party titles as the 360, and many games that were exclusive to the PS2 ended up becoming multi-platform.

Ironically enough, the same thing happened to Microsoft with…

The most significant difference is in the GPU, where the Series S has a custom-made AMD chip that’s roughly 1/3 the performance of the one in the Series X (which is also custom-made).

AMD, in terms of supplying these chips, is limited by the semiconductor company that makes them: TSMC. What happens is that the lower…

Yeah. It’s not exactly a triangle, since that implies all of the sides are connected in a roundabout way (and the term love triangle has almost always been a misnomer, or misused, for exactly that reason).

What it is is that Laura and Cory both like Bradley, and Bradley only appears to like Laura. There’s nothing…

The Daniel arc (or lack thereof) was the most frustrating part of the entire season for me.

He was incredibly relevant for the first 3 episodes (getting stuck in China when Covid hit, then angling to get the evening news spot, then butting heads with the higher ups and going off the reservation when they try to placate…

The issue arises in that an NFT, for all of the talk about getting compensation for artists who would otherwise go uncompensated, and providing a digital proof of original ownership, is still a digital paradigm that is subject to all of the potential foibles of anything that exists solely in the digital realm.

For…

“Price” as an economic concept is merely a variable that is relative to the good or service it’s attached to; it means absolutely nothing on its own. What matters is “value”, of which price is a determinant, but not the only one.

A $20m Renoir has a higher price than a $3 carton of eggs, but the value of the eggs to…

I’d put Viola Davis for the next one.

All she’s missing is a Grammy, and a spoken-word album or something of that manner could easily get her one.

You’re absolutely right.

I remember a conversation I had on here concerning gay actors and roles where the characters are gay. Being gay myself (and black), I’ve thought about this a lot. The crux of the conversation concerned already-existing characters who are adapted or changed in some way from the already-existing…

The other big issue that it causes is a purposeful ignorance of real stories and real people that are just as captivating, if no moreso, than the fantastical stories they bandy about in an incredibly clumsy manner.

Merely plopping a black person, or a gay person, or a trans-person in a role and saying “diversity”…

You’re right, but I also don’t think that Tommy’s age, or his look, was particularly relevant to his character.

There’s also the salient reality that some people just live a hard life and age like milk and not whiskey. I think the audience are willing to extend their suspension of disbelief for a fictional character…

They wouldn’t de-age Bob Odenkirk because de-aging is expensive and takes a long time in post-production. Plus, Bob Odenkirk is of an age in both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad to where he hasn’t actually visually aged all that much, regardless of the time period difference.

If they were trying to say that Saul and B…

The difference is that the vast majority of people wouldn’t know who Tommy DeSimone was, or what he looked like, due to the fact that Goodfellas came out in 1990, DeSimone “disappeared” in 1979, and most moviegoers couldn’t readily research the actual people who the movie based characters on because of the general…

Angela Bassett is a goddess, but even she, in certain pictures, looks a bit too “tight” in places where, facially, a 62 year old should be showing more age, namely around the eyes and the brow.

The issue with Marg Helgenberger is entirely due to her bone/dental structure.  All the plastic surgery in the world can’t fix…