Eh. The Disney Channel does this because they use some scammy educational discount that runs out after three years, so if there’s a fourth Jonas Brothers season suddenly they’re on a boat with a new title. But a completely new show from the same pre-existing I.P. several years later is indeed as completely new a show.…

What’s interesting to me about the new flag is how aggressively it violates the design aesthetic of the original. Is it possible to support the underlying idea while objecting to its artistic merits? Or is that part of the point, to encourage a meta dialogue: what do you care more about, equality or “good” taste?

Why would they contact editorial? Indeed the story was that Gawker’s advertising arm rejects contact editorial often embraces. Not that you deny that here. You don’t really have a point here, in fact

If Waterston’s and Sheen’s agents got them a “most favored nations” clause — not unusual for big stars doing TV — then no matter what they raise Tomlin and Fonda’s pay to they’ll have to give the men, too. If it helps, 1.) We are likely talking an astronomical number already; and 2.) Such a clause got Meredith…

I think with a little more effort you could have gotten this down to half a sentence.

Excellent gender policing. Keep it up!

There's no telling where anything will go, but many of the current trends in LGBT thought are toward viewing sexuality as a continuum or even unknowable muddle (queer, genderqueer, etc.) So on top of whatever else, good luck delineating who's "allowed" to play what. Personally I'm mainly irritated by straight actors…

I showed the Godfather to my nephews recently and they both hated it

Did GWTW shape the white South's view of itself or just tell white Southerners what they wanted to hear? Either is a perfectly fine reason to reject the film, but you may give the medium more credit than I do. I'm reminded of communist Russia pouring scant resources into the films of Eisenstein and Vertov in the…

I'm gay, and if I want to hold movies to a similar standard I've got two problems: Movies made before say 1970 elide the very idea that I exist, which is problematic, and movies made from 1970 to 2005 cast me mainly as murderers and/or gross and/or a laughingstock. Even now things aren't great, but that's another…

Predictably — and gratifyingly — her book has garnered 200 new one-star reviews today alone. We bring upon ourselves that which we most fear

East Coast: Blue-chip. Seen everything. Nobody's fool. And yet hasn't spearheaded a new industry since garments, and is becoming less central to most others, except money. Which, if you're only going to have one, money is the one to have, no question. Still, West Coast: Built yesterday. Fly-by-night. …

Big deal, my local library just got the bomb

Elsewhere on your internet dial, the Atlantic Wire has every Dairy Queen Blizzard ranked. This every pop-culture-thing-x-ranked trend can't end fast enough for me; could someone rank all these glorified listicles so we can all move on?

Do we even know if Darren Wilson is connected to this fund? Or that the people who started it have any intention of giving him the money when it's through? I kind of like the idea of all these racists signing over a bunch of money to some random grifter

It's nice to see feminism coming to Europe, however belatedly. There was a time when the Roman Polanski "controversy" was seen there as being somehow just more American puritanical-ism-ness and not, you know, people minding rapists

We're happy with the term "rape gif?"

I feel for you, and offer these thoughts:

Making up bullshit to tell insecure people sounds like a sweet, sweet gig

Finally, someone in America is willing to keep an African-American in his place