Fun fact: he was also the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera in Toronto I think

Yeah. When I was in grad school, we’d have a monthly seminar where we were all assigned someone’s recent dissertation to read. We’d each have a chapter to go through and summaraize/critique. Since we were just lowly grad students, most of our efforts were on summarizing, since we generally weren’t in a position to…

People overestimate how prestigious a graduate degree from Oxford is. It’s really only prestigious if you are given a scholarship to study there. If you are self funded (which I would assume NW was... she couldn’t finish her degree there when she was a Rhodes scholar, so I’m guessing when she went back to Oxford a few…

Wow, that’s in part on Oxford, her supervisor and examiners. I wonder if her publishers had the book peer reviewed? From the link it doesn’t sound as if those cases were central to her thesis though.

Yes! My good friend is an academic and she mentioned this bit of information when we were chatting about Wolf’s interview. It’s one thing if it got past a regular editor, because commercial publishing is full of ‘fact-adjacent’ bullshit - no one really cares as long as it sells.

But this was her dissertation! Wtf?

And this is supposed to be a first display of an offering from a LUXURY brand. Meaning, big prices for ready-to-wear.  Meaning, it should be impeccable.

Never before in the course of human events have so many words said so little.

Just shoehorning into this to say that Jezebel seems to be ignoring Fosse/Verdon - and Michelle Williams should be scooping up EVERY gold-plated tchotchke Hollywood hands out this year for her performance.

I don’t know what it is about Carly Rae’s music, but it really is perfect pop.

Came here to say the same thing. Dear god, the resemblance is unreal 

I am so happy we all agree. It’s like Leelee Sobieski/Helen Hunt levels of the doppelganger.

I only had three years of Latin in high school where I barely earned a C and I read that and thought exactly the same thing!! Soror/sororis is latin for “sister” and couldn’t quite figure out where the slave woman part came from, unless you somehow translate “compliant sisters” into “slave women”, and I have a…

She’s vowed not to get back together with him until he can hit an outside shot. So, they’re done.

This...kind of all makes me like him even more.

We are about to eat our candidates again. If you had a company, you’d never hire Trump to run it. If someone in your personal life bragged or lied like Trump, you’d never hang out with them. The person I knew in college that bragged and lied like that was known as “Annoying Man” by me and my friends. Yet somehow this…

I am SO DISAPPOINTED that not one person has done a play on words around camp, or covered both by going full Troop Beverly Hills. 

Anyone who would show up in this would have won the whole night. 

If someone doesn’t do this I’m going to be a little upset.

Some of the stuff thats going on in society is basically baloney.

“He comes over in the morning to be here when the children wake up, he goes off to work at 10 to edit one movie and write, cast and produce the next, he comes back at the end of the day, stays until they go to bed—then we go out for a quick bite to eat. I like the arrangement. I’m married in the sense that Woody and I…