I think of him as the postmaster general from Seinfeld.

Halle? Is that you?

Good for you! I saw Tom Waits in a lobby of a hotel in Warsaw, of all places. He was happily posing for pictures with some Polish fans, completely approachable, but I was so shocked I just did a U-turn and walked out. Still kicking myself.

Women! Hormones! Hilarious! Can we go back to real women's interest content now? And not for nothing, why has Jezebel been commandeered by a male writer? Is it too late to bring back Dodai Stewart?

A wee correction: "its" sheer stupidity, not "it's."

These parents may be punished more severely than George Zimmerman was or Timothy Loehmann will be. What our culture considers "child-endangerment" is batshit crazy.

Can we find a spot for Twitch? Tin Man perhaps?

I don't think a nomination for DuVernay would have been a token nomination at all. The Academy generally gives directors nods for the scope of their ambition and the success of their execution, and Selma was a considerable accomplishment for a director: she dealt with a large cast, with many speaking parts—a…

What is a "straight face wind?" Is this like a straight-line wind?

No, I understand . . . I said that in response to the commenter who said that Elba did the same thing on the Wire.

I get what you're saying. Because there are so few representations of Asian women on TV or in film, everything Cho does will be scrutinized with the burden of representation. What Idris Elba does in the Wire—playing a nuanced, complex Stringer Bell, a gangster who is seeking a better way—is not the same thing at…

It would have helped if the lines were actually funny. And if this persona had shown up once, instead of three times.

Someone send a memo to the perennially unfunny Ricky Gervais: This is how you do topical humor.

I knew trouble was coming when the author said no date had ever picked her up or cared how she got home. She's dated a lot of jerks and she sounds particularly vulnerable.

Plus Diane Keaton for rom-com and Isabel Huppert for French.

Plus she takes a lot of the good roles that do become available, leaving little else for her cohorts. (Amiright, Glenn Close?)

I absolutely agree, and I think this has been true for about twenty years or so. It first dawned on me watching Edie Falco's jaw-droppingly nuanced performance as Carmella Soprano. I think you'd have to go back to something Bette Davis did in the 40s to come up with a female role on film as complex and juicy.

I suspect the problem is not that women won't "act their age," but that there are so few roles written for women in their 40s, 50s and beyond in which they can be protagonists. Men who are Crowe's age are seen as pivotal, sexual, and dynamic; too often women at that age are relegated to being the helpful wife, the…

To me the Dershowitz connection is the more newsworthy item here!

Ingenious, perhaps. Although that's questionable. Not ingenuous.