Just watch They Shall Not Grow Old. It’s the real thing, I can’t imagine any dramatization having the same impact. Also, going by the review, it sounds like 1917, if anything, underplays the number of dead bodies the English soldiers were constantly navigating around in and near the trenches. Tolkein was a WWI…

Holy shit!  Well spotted!

It’s the planned obsolescence that’s so heartbreaking.

Jesus, everyone lay off her.  Emma is trying really, really hard.  And all she eats is salad.

Same.  He’s one of those entertainers who has presence and is funny, he just doesn’t have range (or, since he’s young, much wisdom).  I enjoy his work.

Her ebullient energy is wrong for Harriet the Spy.

Or when that guy running for office said it was OK to wear a costume involving blackface because it happened all the way back in 2009, which was a different time.

My guess is Sacha Baron Cohen, also without having watched the video.  Seems like something he would do.

I only read the “Peace” sections of War and Peace.  

I think it was the second book that had her go to Ikea and listed all the particular pieces of furniture she bought by name.  Most Swedish thriller *ever.*

Yep, if you didn’t enjoy that, Lucy Maude is not for you.

Well, also, the whaling sections do more than filling in background for the uninformed reader. They’re lyrical and philosophical, in Melville’s particular way.

This is lovely, it’s inspiring and nice to know about.  Thanks!  

It’s a momentary hand-erection, basically.

So the show has become Shamelessly sentimental?  Mr. Police, I gave you all the clues.

She’s got some of that Christie Brinkley magic (I love what they did with her on Parks & Rec).

Same. As someone who grew up in the ‘80s, when she already seemed like a long-term fixture, and having also witnessed the death of the careers of hundreds of women in entertainment when they were considered past their prime, I am amazed and wildly impressed that she’s still in the game.

Kids are gullible and easily upset, yes.  But they’re supposed to be able to trust adults. This shtick sucks.

That intern would be a playing a long game, but Kimmel would deserve it

I saw some nuance in this post, actually.  And come on--Franco is *definitely* a sex pest, so Simon is wrong right off the bat!