Having read the blog, it seems murkier than simply saying it’s untrue. They have no idea where he honeymooned and can’t actually rule out Kyoto, but can say for a fact that he visited Kyoto twice at other times on vacation (yes these were vacations that were ultimately useful to his career, but as someone in Foreign…

The Arab Spring was crushed though, and the regimes that changed almost all changed to be more autocratic and militarized. I find it kind of depressing that people in the West seem to remember that period as some kind of feel-good story, like they checked out before seeing the ending.

None of these women seem to presently be in a relationship with D’Elia. They did leave. After he was abusive to them.

The old unionised writers! (My understanding is that the site’s move to LA was partially to force all the members of the union to quit, since they couldn’t easily be fired without cause).

tbh they did try to change course in 2016, with Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush actively courting the hispanic vote. But their psycho base are the ones who vote in the primaries.

Because every country will have a different network and release date?

Why should he be glad he had fame? He was too young to decide if he even really wanted it.

I’d argue that the fucking South Park guys have done infinitely more damage to society than Hilton ever did

She had already filmed The Simple Life when the sex tape was released. One could argue about whether it would have been as successful without the publicity of the tape, but it’s impossible to know, and the fact is she already had a show without it.

which thought it was funny to show how awful two born-rich kids were at interacting with regular people in regular life

Ugh, I hate arguing about this stuff with someone who clearly doesn’t really have any investment in the conversation, but that “coo” is special and hard to master. Nobody else can sing Britney songs like she could, there’s a simultaneous effortlessness and conviction that’s hard to master. Not many people can do what…

Domestic returns bring much more money to the studio though (they get something like 60% of a ticket price, compared to around 20% internationally, and tickets are a lot cheaper in other parts of the world), and China doesn’t have Netflix anyway. Their primary market is still the US.

I watched Buffalo ‘66 for the first time last year, it held up pretty well. It’s a fucked up scenario, obviously, but nothing felt especially dated.

Huh, I love Rachel Griffiths and I never knew she was nominated for Hilary and Jackie. In that case, it feels like category error too, because she was totally a co-lead in that movie - hell, her character’s name is in the title. 

Plenty of people have corrected your first paragraph, but as to your second point, why wouldn’t DDL try out a light period comedy? He would go on to star in Nine, which had a far trashier romantic-comedy pedigree than Shakespeare in Love, and at that point he’d already done Stars and Bars.

I mean, the women of the Black Panthers have said pretty definitively that the men in the organization were regularly abusive and misogynistic. Look up the beating of Regina Davis. Look up why Elaine Brown, the only woman to ever lead the Black Panthers, left and denounced them.

I don’t know what her motivations were, but if I were in her place I would have told literally everybody I could. Police yes, but also media, friends, internet forums. I wouldn’t have tried to play at being “undercover”, I would have been brutally public, because without hard evidence the only power someone in her…

Maybe google “dyspraxia” - she’s always twitched, it’s a disorder. She didn’t look any worse than the average come-down from Burning Man, and she’s been utterly straightforward that she used drugs heavily there.

The real villain was capitalism all along!

His comments about JK Rowling were specifically about the “scandals that are mostly discussed on entertainment news websites and Twitter,” so if he wasn’t familiar with the topic he probably shouldn’t have weighed in. And I can’t imagine he was unaware of Singer’s poor leadership on the set of X2, considering it led…