The job of an “intimacy coordinator” has some necessity in today’s climate but it exists solely because liability underwriters demanded it. It is not designed to protect actors but to shield studios from lawsuits, not to prevent criminal behavior.  

There comes a time when a 5o year old should put the skateboard away. That time is now.

I’m confident people have myriad problems with Trump and those people also disagree with him.

Trump returning to Twitter would be the right thing to do. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Free speech used to mean also hearing from those you disagree with. Now, free speech is a dubious idea.

A better trick might be a $5 meal. It’s still possible if you are willing to skip the over-priced, watery soda. As others have mentioned the McD app is a good source for weekly deals. There’s a burrito chain MOE’S that has a Monday $5 burrito that’s a killer deal.

How does the government taking money from someone create jobs? Fleecing a couple hundred uber-rich people ain’t gonna make a difference.

Yeah, “it’s only a movie.” But they can still defame people.

Not the article I’m reading right now.

Nickelodeon had “Bone” in various stages of development almost 30 years ago. It was pitched as an animated series, and/or a feature film. It went nowhere.

I’m sort of immune to Twitter. It rarely holds my interest for any length of time. The people who engage with it on a regular basis seem to take it much more seriously than the average user. I mostly follow comedians for the laughs. Social/political messaging rarely makes sense via Tweets.

It is certainly a threat to your free speech. It’s just not constitutionally protected. But when both political parties start dictating what social media can (or should) do, it becomes a bit dire.

IMDB has gone from an essential bookmark to a noisy, cluttered mess. You have to dig through endless garbage and promotion to get any actual information.

More power to “them” but it was not all that common until recently and it would be routinely flagged as grammatically problematic. To pretend otherwise is irrational. The usage is not the issue, it’s the angry, prescriptive correction that typically follows.

I’m ambivalent about cathode ray tubes.

I kind of like cover albums but the reality is sort of grim and lazy. The way royalties work, the incentive to write original material is not that enticing financially for most.

Live TV directing has little in common with cinema. It would be like asking Scorsese to direct the Super Bowl.

Absolute Entertainment had an interesting line of licensed properties that nobody really wanted like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Goofy and Home Improvement. But more importantly they also had Penn and Teller’s Smoke and Mirror. The most legendary aspect of that game was the Desert Bus Simulator which required the player to…

Rowling’s “toxicity” is non-existent outside of a small subset of online gadflys. It is propelled by interpretations that infer much more than anything Rowling actually said. And her response (in the essay on her website) was a rational, thoughtful examination of complex issues that are far from settled.

The live show podcasts never work for me.

Yeah, agreed. It was a clever, elaborate gag. And I’m fine with bitchy snark if it’s actually funny. This was not.