I hear Robbie Amell's playing Whitefish.

You joke, but I could see a genuinely interesting movie about the making of Ilsa.

Yeah, I thought Hawthorne's short story was (by the standard of secondary Hawthorne stories) widely known; I'd never heard of a Doctorow version before this review. And from the description it sounds as if they'd have been wiser to rely more on the original's take, modern setting or not.

"Blue wa—?" youknowwhatnevermind

Dragons are for closers.

As others have pointed out: none of the adults are questioning Trump's right to do what he did. They're just questioning his intelligence, temperament, judgment, reliability, etc. It's not illegal to lack all those things, either. But it's not good news when someone so lacking is at the reins of a lawnmower, much…

I haven't watched this stuff since I was a wee lad tuning in to Georgia Championship Wrestling. But if someone really wanted to drag me back in, the top image isn't a bad way to start. (Though after the divorce, you'd think I'd have learned my lesson about tiny, angry women.)

I am in favor of doing the moral thing. Is the moral thing to employ Midwestern workers at the expense of workers elsewhere? Does "treating people as well as you can" enjoin paying any employees the maximum that won't break you, regardless of the labor's value? (By that logic, a trillionaire's dogwalker should be…

An actor who was never not fun, and whose name alone should punch his ticket to Badass Valhalla. R.I.P., Mr. Boothe, and godspeed.

If it's my company, I'd find the most affordable labor that does an acceptable job. Just as I'd buy whatever's on sale. Is paying retail a moral imperative?

Hard to say. Maybe there is some unseemly piling-on. Or maybe, as the story suggests, this situation was the kind of open secret that had a lot of folks primed to speak their minds. Maybe a little of both. I expect we'll find out more before too long.

I doubt it would be in the label's interest to drop the band outright … unless they had some damned compelling reasons to believe the allegations. There were lesser measures Polyvinyl could have taken that could've salved the PR hit, while still protecting their investment. That they didn't makes me strongly suspect…

Well, his photos certainly radiate Reggie-ness.

Maybe I'm giving Jughead too much credit for maturity and cunning, but I assumed that his acceptance of the Serpents jacket was more a matter of protective coloration than anything else. If you're thrown into a hazardous new environment, and you've suddenly got a bunch of intimidating criminal types declaring you an…

You damn kids. pas de deux is a perfectly common phrase among the read-up, and I stand prepared to call a retard a spade. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

[Tentatively puts nickel on Adrian Zmed]

In Season 2, I want Cheryl and Penelope to go full We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

From the sound of it, the movie would've done better either to complicate both the husband's and the wife's characters, or to leave intact the mystery of both. Half-measures will bring only a mess, as an astute old guy once said.

I wouldn't say "robbed." In fact, the possibility that Lars ran into trouble and missed the party against his will invites us to entertain a degree of hope about his character. (Always assuming, of course, that he hasn't come to too much grief.)

Had some ube ice cream in S.F. Not half bad.