I’m nominating Janet Weiss.  Incredibly fun to watch. I think she might move the band in a more interesting direction.

Hey, ladies, have a seat and get settled so I can explain my perspective of how comedy is a lot like jazz!

Yeah, I’m not upset they also left out Arthur and DW from the montage.  I’m assuming they died.

Looks like you’re getting that here.  Cruise on a bike, beach volleyball, fun times at the bar with his pilot friends, friends ‘splodin’, etc.

Why are they flying around so much?!?  Haven’t they seen where oil prices are at?

Excellent idea.

It’s not the worst I’ve seen, and maybe that’s just asking too much to get a completely unfiltered, unguarded apology.  Were I in his position, I’d probably overscrutinize every word I write, too.

I just really wish that once in a while we get an apology that sounds sincere, not out of some publicist’s apology template, less polished. and written in the voice of the apologizer. I know I would find a letter like that more convincing as actually having come from the apologizer rather than being handed of to a…

About ‘punching down’, I guess I was thinking of Jada relative to CR, rather than Will or the Smiths combined relative to CR. If it’s the latter, then y’all are correct. Just the reaction to Will Smith’s from those attending further illustrates how popular he is. I know there was confusion and I know that the cheers…

I’d also take it with a grain of salt since they were also in damage control right after The Slap, and that speech was likely designed at the last minute in part by his publicist (rightfully so since that’s her job) and some of his colleagues like Denzel.

I thought you meant the Jerk Store comeback.

Tiffany Haddish’s take that that’s what a man is supposed to do is a particularly archaic take, and I’m sure she’s not the only one with that view.

It didn’t look like it was just a slap. Sure, not a punch, but it was a big swing. Rock, however, rightly probably thinks pressing charges is going to be futile. Nothing will happen to someone like Will Smith, and it’ll just be a hassle for Rock. Rock’s joke wasn’t even a good one and punched down, but Smith’s…

Sasha’s sister?

It’s the Year of the Woman, everybody!

I feel like at least half the time this is how it works especially for the more veteran actors. They’ll hit their apex in a year they don’t win, time will further prove that it was an iconic performance and there’s a strong argument they should have won, and they end up winning for a good but probably lesser…

I would have been curious about how realistically you all would have rendered that notorious 20-pound bag of poop that stayed on a Tenderloin sidewalk for about a week.

San Francisco, too, is quite literally a shithole if you go to some neighborhoods. I’ve never seen characters dodging human poop, needles, and homeless encampments in any movie.

Yup, that’s Hollywood for you. It’s frustrating to see Cairo or other places like Morocco still shown as they had been shown in movies 40 years ago as if we still haven’t heard of Orientalism. Same with how filmmakers lazily shoot scenes meant to be in Mexico with the ubiquitous Mexican Filter. There are varying…

I really adore this book, so this is one of those cases where I’m a little reluctant to see a version different from whatever was in my head, which was more quiet than epic. I’ve been pleasantly surprised before as with Never Let Me Go, and the reviews definitely make this tempting. Plus, I really like Kogonada. Justin…