I had to look it up... it was the Power House at Hollywood and Highland.

I also ran into Andy Dick in a Hollywood bar around the same time. He and I were the only customers and he kept crying and talking nonsense and asking me to buy him a drink. The bartender REFUSED to serve him. Eventually Dick started pleading for me to go with him somewhere. I looked at him and said, “Don’t you have…

I think this is a large part of it as well. Notice that as the Walking Dead went on, things got darker. As their budgets shrank and star salaries ate up more of those budgets, they just couldn’t afford multiple zombies, elaborate kills, or extensive fight choreography, so they went darker.

And Slamdance Cosmopolis?

Yes, in a lot of cases is was actual suicide, or beatings, or murder. Sadly, it still is, though it’s gotten MUCH better (even though it seems to be getting worse). People below are commenting “why is this news?” or “why do we care?” and it’s precisely because society needs to keep seeing people come out so that it…

People who didn’t live through that time don’t realize how terrifying it could be for a kid who MIGHT be gay. To even be perceived as gay was social suicide at that age. As someone who grew up in those times with no interest in sports and a deep love of The Cure, I was called the “f-word” and its various iterations…

I’m happy to see that the Republican party is finally figuring out that the Republican party is impossible to deal with.

I was just there Christmas Eve day. It’s just as you remember.

“the company’s outdated scheduling software.” If only they had a year off to upgrade their software...

The head of imagineering went rogue and released drawings of this retheme without any internal approval.

Yes, at that point it’s just an install/repaint. Almost no work is done in place.

Am I the only one who thinks the header pics make him look like a drag queen on an off day?

I saw Eternals and I can’t for the life of me remember a queer storyline. I watched Lightyear on streaming and Mrs Stammer was all primed for some Disney girl/girl action. She was looking away from the screen when the same sex peck happened. “THAT’S what people were getting upset about?” she exclaimed after rewinding…

You can blame her if she’s charging people extra for the autograph.

The parks were packed before the pandemic. There is a LOT of foreign money being spent on Disney vacations (I see it every week). Saying that it will fall off soon because of the recession and inflation is meaningless, because changing CEOs won’t help that (and it’s also not likely).

So, your admittedly small sample size hasn’t been to the parks in 6 years. WELL before charging for Fastpass and likely 3 rate hikes ago. In fact, well before any impact of Chapek taking over the parks could be felt. Clearly Chapek wasn’t the person to run Disney as a whole, but literally nobody on the board thought…

And yet the parks are packed. The Disney zealots love only one thing more than Disney, and that’s complaining about how it isn’t as good as it was.

This is wishful thinking. I can’t imagine Disney will ever roll back prices on anything. I can’t think of a company ever doing that. The things you want are most likely gone for good.

West Side Story was gorgeous, but we already had a near-perfect version of that movie already. And Ansel Elgort is an OK singer until the point when literally anyone else is singing with him and blowing him out of the water. Rachel Zegler was radiant, but I kept watching the movie wondering why it existed.

I’m not sure I love the “other people are going to scalp our tickets, so let’s be our own scalpers” reasoning.