But that’s his charm, he delivers his lines weird, says his surfer-bro “whoa!” in a surprisingly high percentage of all of his roles, and somehow, it works.  What about Speed?  Would you have recast that one?

*heavy sigh* have you not READ The Silmarillion?????

The logo is fine but not captivating.  The ad was depressing--it begs the question “what’s going on?  why is LA so desperate?”

Boy, reading the summary of Mary’s character traits in this post, she’s exactly the “Cool Girl” skewered in Gone Girl (thinking specifically about the book in this case).  

I don’t have a dog in the hunt but I know a lot of people who enjoy buying GS cookies. Some combination of nostalgia and a feeling that they can binge and feel virtuous at the same time, for once.

it’s a fundraiser ... at least theoretically.  seems latterly to have become an end in itself.

Thank you, I’ll check it out!

Looking forward to this. There are a ton of great, I mean *great* graphic novels and memoirs for elementary/middle-school-aged readers, ones I wish had been around when I was that age (e.g. Svetlana Chmakova’s books). I like Allison Bechdel’s the best of the adult-oriented ones I’ve read. Any recommendations for…

Am toxic.

Wow I think of Martin Short as a generation older than Conan but now they look the same age.  

Or else he’s saying that you can take a rich mosaic that includes diverse colors and paint it over to look more uniform.

I liked The Searcher a bit better than The Witch Elm but if it was the first book I’d read by a new author, I would not be excited for the next one. I’m still hoping that she goes back to the Dublin detectives.

I loved Broken Harbor and Faithful Place, but I was pretty disappointed by The Witch Elm. It had nothing to do with plot lines, although I don’t recall there being that many, it just felt alienating and hollow (like the titular elm). The protagonist’s entire purpose was to be punished for being too privileged and…

Why B-?  I half-watched it while my kids had it on and they enjoyed it a lot.  I liked it more than a lot of kids’ stuff I half-watch.  I would give it at least a B.  

Yet more unfairness for York, who demonstrated extraordinary bravery and heroism throughout the journey to and from the West Coast. Asked his enslaver Clark if he could maybe free him after all of that and Clark was like “let me think .... um, no.”

Kimmel’s “feud” with Matt Damon should have been put to bed a long, long time ago.  

I haven’t seen Che’s show yet, but judging by the recent proliferation of these shows it’s apparently pretty hard to put together a whole show’s worth of solid sketches. Of the recent attempts, I like A Black Lady Sketch Show the best; there’s some kind of thematic or character-based connective tissue that elevates…

I read The Rainmaker fairly recently (haven’t seen the movie) and I found the ending so, so frustrating. [SPOILER] He spends the whole book building towards professional stability and status and then throws it all away in service of the wafer-thin romantic subplot. In The Firm the bridge-burning was integral to the…

Hopefully you’re right.  It would be shame to cast Kumail Nanjiani and not let him be funny.

“white from the lands where white people come from”