It feels like the award gods delivered karmic payback. She has an acting Golden Globe she doesn’t deserve, so now she lost an Oscar she probably did deserve (at least of the nominated choices). The only shame is that Sam Smith benefitted from this.

I feel weirdly vindicated in my illogical hatred of Sam Smith. I can’t stand his songs and I find his face punchable. I know violence is extreme and I’d never actually do it but every time I see him.... I get irrational rage.

I did see somewhere the line ‘Minogue has owned the domain Kylie.com since 1996. A year before Jenner was born.’ Which is such a beautiful slapdown.

Does this mean I have to send Taylor a check every time I fill out a form or celebrate my birthday?

“Jenner is a ‘secondary reality television personality’ who has received criticism from disability rights groups and African-American communities.”

Finally. If your religion prohibits any sight or incidental contact with women, maybe you should stay home. We certainly won't.

I read down the rest of the thread to see who would try to argue with that but I think you hit a home run on the “ethnicity of Egyptians” arguement.

One of my students asked me if I planned to see it. I said no because the gods were white but it was set in Egypt. The people would be dark skinned. He admitted that was a good point and why were the gods white.

Yes, but the point is that Egypt was diverse. It wasn’t monolithically white or anything, really.

From what I can tell from my time there, people thought he was a bit weird and a bit of a loony, but there being actual meat to the allegations was a shock; they thought it was just easy jokes and low hanging fruit for poking a bit of fun at an eccentric. The big shock, according to my UK friends, was the Rolf Harris…

Louis Theroux made a documentary following Savile that was disturbing enough at the time (when Savile was still alive) let alone after details of his abuse of children came out after his death.

The scope of the offences, and the entertainers involved, was staggering and horrifying. Operation Yewtree seemed at one stage to be sweeping up every children’s entertainer who was big in those days.

Anyone I know living in Great Britain has been saying these rumors existed for decades. Good that he’s finally been given the butcher’s bill and it’s a large one.

I’ve had that young Italian who was killed in Cairo on my mind this week. This story highlights how many Westerners want to understand as well as expose what’s happening and how easily it can go wrong.

It gets even worse in the next eps. I fully believe the Kardashians paid to have themselves inserted into the show.

I’ve only seen the first ep of American Crime Story, and loved it, but found it really annoying the way they hammered us over the head with unnecessary “IT’S THE KARDASHIANS, YES THOSE KARDASHIANS” exposition. Like once would have been fine, but they kept it at.We get it. We know the Kardashian konnection (note:…

I feel like this cover might have done even more damage.

I was pleasantly surprised by Brooklyn. It crept up on me, and I was so aware afterward that I had seen a good movie that told women’s stories.

Brooklyn was the best movie of the year. That is all.

“he looks like he tastes bad.”