Their family tree looks like a tumbleweed, throw in multigenerational murders and incest.

We do, largely, know her mother’s ancestry. We’re almost certain it was a Cleopatra V/VI but the records are a bit muddled.

Unarmed civilians issuing tickets to motorists, even “means-based” ones?

God, her fans are so fucking dumb.

A couple of my film-production buddies have worked with him several times. They say he’s a very sweet person with a whole lot of power. He is not shitty with people, and is focused on making the best movie he can make. He works. He’s amiable and likes to laugh, but he’s not screwing around. He’s a decent human being…

This feels like a “well he’s dead anyway, so” profit type situation.

Yes, pretty much every Guardians character makes sense as a cameo mercenary they can dip back into, as-needed for single projects. Though I contest your last point: Tom Holland, Chris Hemsworth, and Paul Rudd are still doing these things.

These firm commitments never to come back are only as strong as:

* The desire to buy a new house or boat or houseboat
* Running into the wrong financial planner, tax advisor or divorce attorney and needing some cash
* A kick-ass story idea (Lowest priority)

Not everyone made RDJ money, after all.

Even Gunn isn’t immune.…

Conan O’Brien pretty famously did that during the 2007 WGA strike. There was nothing for him to do so, between voicing his support for the strike, he did shit like seeing how long he could spin his wedding ring on his desk or played production equipment like the camera switcher. A lot of it was hilarious, but I don’t…

The Blurred Lines decision to be STILL feels like an absolute travesty.  I’ll never understand the legal logic in that one.

Jenna Ortega’s in this?

During the 2007 strike they did just that, so maybe history will repeat itself. Because of anything is going to convince the public of the necessity of writers, it will be Jimmy Fallon improvising an episode of the Tonight Show. 

Short answer: it’s fuzzy.

Long answer: technically, a writer could probably bring a grievance if so much as a word is changed, but that’s vanishingly rare. It also varies by the culture of the show how leeway much the actors (and directors) are given to tweak things.  Some actors just change the lines no matter what,…

Last minute reshots perhaps?

They gave him 9 weeks at, presumably, the staff writer minimum $4,546, which amounts to $41K before rep fees and taxes. With no residuals, no sustained work for being a writer on a series because the AMPTP’s arbitrary division on “mini-rooms” and you’re left somewhere around $32k FOR THE YEAR. That’s well below good…

No, under normal circumstances. Improvisation isn’t considered writing under the WGA terms. By definition improv is unwritten. Similarly, if an actor or director just doesn’t like how a line is written and they workshop a different line, that’s not writing either, which is what makes Halpern’s tweet a bit hyperbolic.…

It is the only way I travel. Especially with my ocelot Babou.

I know there are going to be a lot of “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!” comments, but Ed Sheeran is right. This lawsuit is bogus & Marvin Gaye’s family is ruining creativity in music with this bullshit.

Sex in zero G would be awkward at best. you have no traction to thrust. You would just be wiggling with someone wiggling with you. you would have to use a foot hold to brace you against a surface and use your arms to either hold them still or make them move back and forth. Basically it would be like you trying to fuck…

The Scriptnotes podcast with John August and Craig Mazin did an episode fairly recently with Rian Johnson looking at how (I might get the program name wrong) ChatGPT came up with hypothetical script for a Benoit Blanc Mystery. The result was very lackluster and it got it all the details wrong (like cadence, character…