Honestly just from this weird comment alone I slightly wonder whether his previous relationship collapses had some element of “oversupportive/overinvolved mum” playing a role.

This was my exact thought. The “Kim is pregnant” hysteria has been floating around the internet all week, as if a newly divorced, incredibly wealthy woman with four children (the last one or two of whom were carried by a surrogate because of her health issues) would deliberately get pregnant with a fling.

That comment is somewhat heartless though given that Kim Kardashian notably had extremely complicated and no doubt painful pregnancies and was medically advised not to become pregnant again because of the potential danger to her health.

I never thought I’d hear the term simping coming out of a female writer from Jezebel. You realise it’s the language of incels and fans of Jordan Peterson. Please never ever use it in a non-ironic way again, it puts the womens rights movement back by about 50 years.

Yeah I’ve it if a guy “simped”* for me like Ben is doing here.

When did “I whole-heartedly support my partner in her career without any jealousy or resentment” become a bad thing? 

Right? I’m not a fan of either of them, and I still think that. Even if it does turn out to be a PR romance - at least he’s playing it whole-heartedly. Might be his best performance of the 2020s.

I love that Ben cheers his lady on like that. More men should.

Boy oh boy is “simping” a term that needs to die a quick, painful death.

Well, he wrote the book and adapted it into the original screenplay. He was furious about what they did, but he always guarded his words like a pit bull. Frankly, I don’t know how he managed to have the control he did over his screenplays. No other writer in modern film history had as much control, outside of Woody…

Yes! I’m literally shocked that the untimely passing of such a movie giant is being barely mentioned in mainstream media and I first saw it here in the AVClub...

Smoke is another good movie with a great William Hurt performance.

Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist was his best performance, go see it if you have not, and Geena Davis deservedly won Best Supporting Actress, four nominations total. Kathleen Turner teamed up with him again and played the wife role much better than what was given her, and a great supporting cast (Bill Pullman,…

I reviewed The Accidental Tourist when I was writing film reviews in my college newspaper. I wrote it was one of the most moving performances I’d seen and I stand by that to this day. It’s an incredible demonstration of restraint, and one can’t help but feel everything he’s feeling and thinking without any dialogue.…

All you need to know about William Hurt is how much he did with a five-minute role in History of Violence:

The Big Chill, Dark City - definitely important films. I like his performance in The Plague (based on the novel by Camus, 1992), though it isn’t as well known. He’ll be missed.

My first job when I went to the deep south for college, someone came up to the counter and ordered a “clear Coke” and I was completely dumbfounded. But that was, of course, only the first of hundreds of times.

As do all good people. “Soda” is what you add to a cocktail to make it fizzy (as in a “scotch and soda”). And don’t get me started on the Southern US custom of calling all pop “Coke” even if it isn’t.

The pop thing is a nice touch. Certain wonderful American members of my family always complain about their weight but refuse to give up their big gulps. I do wish they would give them up, not to lose weight but because all that sugar (p.s. In Canada we call soda, pop).

Don’t know the podcast, but I remember that Dateline, and I couldn’t believe how the police enabled Pam.