the project is based on Sam Wasson’s doorstopper biography Fosse

I think the only reason Secretary works (and I love that damn movie so much) is because there really is a power dynamic change — it goes from a totally unhealthy power trip on the part of Spader’s character that he doesn’t know how to manage in a good way, to this great discovery on the part of Gyllenhaal’s character,…

It can be — and often is — both.

Thank you for posting this, it’s been years since I’ve seen it! God, were they great.

I scrolled back up to make sure that was actually included in this list, and then I just had to laugh.

Yeah, he pretty much always sounds like that.

He hangs around in the book/record shop I work in pretty often, and I swear to you, the first time I realized he was in there, I had to do a double-take, because, well... I texted my friend/coworker, “This guy who just walked in is either a hobo, or it’s Caleb Landry-Jones.” And then it was him.

A friend of a friend was actually barricaded in that Gelsons yesterday while all of this was going on; apparently she just chose a really unlucky time to run an errand. It was crazy.

1. Friend of friend is fine, was just stuck locked in a supermarket waiting for things to settle down after a couple hours. Fortunately I don’t think the situation escalated too much after that point. I know at least one person was killed (not sure who or when), but it could’ve been much worse once it became a full-on…

So Hollywood is nuts right now! Tarantino’s latest is shooting in practically my backyard right now — they’ll be shutting down a chunk of Hollywood Blvd. on Monday and Tuesday — and it’s pretty cool to see the production sparing no detail in getting certain storefronts done up to look like it’s 1969 again. The…

I watch that one every Christmas! Both because it’s a great Christmas movie, and just one of my favorite LA movies.

I have long advocated for technology that allows a person to unsend emails and texts. Why is this still not possible?

I refuse to even click the link to the Refinery29 post, because I can easily see it making me rage very quickly.

Yeah, I’ve been in my business (books) for 10 years now, and I’m still making less than the intern penning this post (and I live in LA, and I pay rent). I mean, good for her? But my job doesn’t give me free food, either.

Both are frightening in their own ways, I suppose, but I love both in part because of what might make them terrifying to people. I fucking LOVE space, and I love the ocean. And I drowned in the ocean at 13! (As in: out of body experience, underwater for minutes, blacked out, was dragged out and resuscitated by a…

I can see your point, even if don’t agree on the whole. Also, The Hurt Locker was 10 years ago. I remember finding him very good in that, and then wondering what happened to that Jeremy Renner, because I haven’t seen a trace of that skill in carrying a role from him since.

Could be! I’ve never seen him on that, but there are definitely actors who seem to just not cross over well from one to the other, for whatever reason.

I’m just as entitled to my dislike of him as you are to liking him in whatever role! He’s a millionaire; I’m sure he’s fine whether I like him or not.

This is a really good joke, and I’m going to remember it.

I haven’t been following the Marvel universe since Iron Man 3 (just too much to keep up with for me, and I was never very invested), but he always struck me as slightly shoehorned in where he did appear, and I wonder if you might be onto something there. I mean, it wouldn’t shock me, I guess is what I’m saying. Living…