Darren Criss as Kurt!

It's like the Kristy Swanson "Buffy":  only important because it inspired the *superior* TV show.

Naya actually auditioned to play Mercedes originally.

What form it would take is open to question, but in our world Hoover was the key figure in forming it, so he deserves credit for that.

I'm fairly certain that America, like every other country in the world, needs a powerful federal police force.

Emma made a point of telling Ella that adoption could be the best option for the kid, and she had to be sure that she wanted to keep it.

Me:  "They made the godmother black, I'm sure that'll have people complaining about the Magical Negro…*boom*…wow, this show's a bit more twisted than I would have given it credit for."

Some versions imply that he's going to eat the baby.

In the original book of "The Sheik" (which was written by a woman), he rapes her regularly for a couple of months, but then she realizes she loves him.

There's no reason to believe the sonnets are in any way autobiographical.

It was pronounced "Loney".

The stats on the words comes from David Crystal, the leading expert on Shakespearean language, and is the topic of his 2008 "Thinking On My Words".

The idea that Shakespeare's plays contain vastly more words than any other writer is a myth.  When you eliminate variants ("cat" vs "cats", etc.) they use about 20,000 words, less than half the at least 50,000 that most people have in their vocabulary today.

"The King's Speech" points out quite explicitly that George VI is only a figurehead, but since he is the figurehead, it's important that he perform his duties properly.  The movie never suggests that the state literally can't do without a monarchy, just that it has one (and a popular one, at that).

My favourite illlogical aspect of many of these Oxfordian theories is that they insist that Shakespeare was some illiterate hick who couldn't possibly have written the plays…but was for some reason chosen to act as a front and was able to convince everyone that he wrote them.

Similar "parallels" have been drawn between the lives of virtually every other significant authorship conspiracy theory contender.  It's not significant unless you start from the premise that the plays are a covert autobiography, which has no particular basis (it's also something Shakespeare scholars do, of course).

In its more extreme versions, the Oxfordian school of thought has assigned virtually all significant English literature produced from the 1580s to the early 17th century to De Vere - including virtually all the major contemporary playwrights (Marlowe, Kyd, Jonson) and poets (Spenser).  These days they mostly focus on…

James Shapiro's "Contested Will" is a neat history of the authorship conspiracy theories and the personal/psychological issues for why many famous people have embraced the idea.

One of my favourite lines in Todd In The Shadows' recent review of "Moves Like Jagger" was him saying that Timberlake had given up on being America's major white male pop star to "pursue his dream of making funny videos on the internet."

I still think Charlotte is probably Emily's half-sister.