I’ve always figured Kevin Williamson was the last beneficiary of that whole thing, but he never put out anything big and floppy enough to tank it on his own from what I recall. With Eszterhas I don’t know if he ever wrote a single other well-received movie.

Won’t be watching this. The value of the original documentary was that Greenfield caught a bunch of stuff the family never thought she’d show (anyone remember the piles of dog shit everywhere and that poor dead lizard?) and thus gave us all a glimpse into the insane affluenza mentality of these people. After they…

i don’t think it’s so much that it’s distracting as much as something that people can point at and go ‘we know this is fake’ and feel like they know something. 

I mean, we’ve already got his replacement with the cheekbones and distinct look in Timothee Chalamet. Clearly, v2.0 is superior but the battery life on v1.0 just hasn’t quite run out yet.

The greatest trick The Devil  pulled is convincing us He’s a Fantastic Beast

It really depends what type of “out” you think is important in this context. If you think award representation is important because it can inspire fans with that identity who are currently closeted or questioning, being “out” in your private life isn’t enough. The public didn’t really know Jodie Foster was gay for…

To be fair, it’s rare that it’s that bad. That’s a particularly bad story. Most students are an absolute pleasure, and I enjoy my conversations and work with them. But overall, yeah, female professors have to walk a tightrope—be authoritative but not “bossy” or “strict,” be friendly but not a pushover, etc. Male…

So, he did not, and there was no try.

And you would be correct in that assumption re: profs vs. freshmen. And yet, you would be amazed at the number of freshmen who come into my classes aggressively confident they know more than me. (I don’t have tenure at Stanford or anything, but I’ve got a doctorate and a 15+ year teaching career and publications and…

1) How the hell do you not invite the star of a movie nominated for Best Picture, and 2) Are we really saying that Steven Freaking Spielberg can’t make one phone call and get this remedied immediately? 

In the prequel novelizations he’s kind of fascinating. All the other Jedis are about pushing away any feelings of anger. Windu gets his power from stoking his anger, but letting it flow through him without attachment like back at his opponents. Kind of overkill just to explain why he has a purple lightsaber but these…

Yeah, isn’t Ms. Marvel’s suit in this trailer supposed to be crappy on purpose? Basically a Halloween or cosplay outfit?

They cut the full quote short:

It actually was a bit of a cultural thing for middle-to-upper class Sacramentoans from that era to plant a weird flag of ownership on pioneer history, like “obviously I come from the people who succeeded at that, so I’m the proper keeper of memory here.” See, Joan Didion’s attachment to the Donner Party

I know it has its detractors but I kinda love all the weird meta stuff in the last couple of Dark Tower books. When King showed up I laughed and enjoyed the ride.

My least favorite part of Big Mouth is every character voiced by Nick Kroll. Especially Rick and Coach Steve. Fuck those guys. I’ll give Maurice a little leeway, and as much as Lola annoys me, she blindsides me with some of the funniest lines in the show. (I don’t know why, but “Lola’s right here, you fucking brussel…

There’s no doubt Steven King is more productive than GRRM, or basically anyone. But assuming GRRM ever frickin finishes the thing, the situation won’t be all that different. The first part of what became The Gunslinger was published in a magazine in 1978. The final volume of The Dark Tower was published in 2004. And…

Okay... first of all, I’m sorry if I made it seem like I was having a go at you in my OP. I do think that take is bad, but if I came charging out the gate it’s because I’ve seen it on here so much, and it wasn’t directed at you in particular.

I’ve seen this take a bunch of times on this site and, gotta say, I think it’s pretty weak and infantilizing.