I wish the Academy Awards would go the same route. There’ll be a backlash, but it’ll bring into sharper relief what I’m expecting to be the ongoing lopsidedness when we see an underrepresentation of nominees that aren’t men.

Don’t you mean “Cheerix!”?

Pretty sure he played that MacGyver guy.

Agree to disagree on Blue Jasmine, but I’m with you on The Aviator and Elizabeth. I did genuinely like what she did with the Hepburn turn, but Elizabeth was special and might have been when I really started thinking of her as one of my favorites.

I used to think that about Blanchett, but I’m beginning to question it. I think she can be really mesmerizing onscreen, but some of her performances like in Blue Jasmine and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? have been really, um, not great.  I guess it’s more that I no longer think she’s infallible.

I heard that it had to be proved that it was a game of skill and not chance by having a pinball wizard basically call his shots to show that it’s not just a randomly bouncing ball.

Could be Dave Franco.

If Dafoe got paid more than Maguire and Dunst combined for the third movie, I would have supported that wholeheartedly. I just don’t think it’s just the size of the role or who’s on the poster.

She admits making good money for the first time with Spider-Man when her (gorgeous) home was featured in Architectural Digest. That’s good money relative to the money she’s pulled in the past, and relative to my salary, not Maguire’s.

It’s obviously a reference to the band members’ penises.

I know that very few students in the Ivy League pay full price, so by no means are the students all affluent, but I wouldn’t be surprised that characters who are not well-to-do will still represent a minority of the characters. I wouldn’t be surprised by an episode or two dealing with the challenges of being not rich…

Maybe there’ll be a lot of sexy time on the show and the producers, the director, etc., may be playing it safe by not having young (actual 19-year-olds) albeit professional actors do intimate scenes, including for the audience’s benefit. I imagine that using older actors will be the more risk-averse approach.

Appropriately they can bring back Eric Clapton for the soundtrack, which will have no music, just Clapton ranting against vaccine mandates and racial diversity.

I’m sure he’s a nice enough person, but Michael Hobbes’s manner really wasn’t my favorite so I’m kinda glad he’s out of the picture. I think there was a smugness to his criticism of how the general public responded to the events they covered, and that really irritated me. Sarah Marshall, on the other hand, can make…

Kelly would rather replace Santa with Krampus even if some kids end up getting whipped on the ass once in a while, as long as Santa stays white.

Nope. But themselves, yes, of course.

I need to take a summer intensive on pronouns because I’m waaay behind. It’s November 2021, and this is the first time I’ve heard of “themself.” I may just never leave the house.*

It’s baffling.

That was my fault.  I was trying to add the “Nicole Kidman Clapping Freakishly” GIF, but was unsuccessful.

She looks totally normal.  Kidding.