Eighty-nine? A mere youngster! British actress June Spencer retired last year at the age of 103, after 73 years (66 years excluding breaks to raise two adopted kids) of playing the role of Peggy Archer in the long running BBC Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers.

Although elderly women in acting are still rather rare compared to men. A lot of women performers disappear in their 40s because the public is thought to not want to see older women in things. While men can be cast even as romantic leads long past normal retirement age.

We as an audience are lucky that acting seems to be a career people can often do well into their later life. Dench has been acting for nearly a quarter-century past normal retirement age, and was over 60 when she first appeared as M.

Could Louis and Claudia not come up with a more believable vampire name than…Bruce?

It’s entirely possible for people to become exhausted, sick, or just tired of large crowds and need to get away from things for a bit. Curation and committing to the bit is great, but there’s nothing unreasonable about providing amenities for people who need a break for whatever reason.

Nah girl, you're right, my tone here was meant to be more teasing and less shitty and I think I lost track on that almost instantly, sorry.

The poor Imagineers originally designed Galaxy’s Edge to have a full-service restaurant with themed entertainment. It didn’t make the cut.

I encourage watching the entire video, or at least the last ~hour where she directly addresses things like cutting corners and being cheap. TL;DW she’s a theme park enthusiast and compares the experience to other experiences, including at Disney’s parks, and to me she made a very compelling argument why the experience…

I’m genuinely happy you had a good time, truly. But I don’t understand your rush to defend this thing.

Well, billionaires lunatics, sure. But Disney is a company that is absolutely terrified/draconian about protecting its reputation, so having a couple hundred people die in a hotel fire is the kind of bad PR they would definitely take steps to avoid.

glad you had fun but i’m just gonna go ahead and take you both equally seriously and it all comes out in the wash. thing doesn’t exist anymore either way.

Yep, the video did delve into the marketing failure. Jenny had to do a little digging, too, because Disney scrubbed much of the marketing materials from their platforms. She either mentioned that in the video or elsewhere on social media.

The video won’t explain why the marketing was bad.

The question of whether it would have been better for her to go “off-universe” for IT help seems rational, but at that price point I would probably find myself FOMOing about losing time in the experience. I’m thinking here about moviegoers who only complain about a presentation issue after the movie is over (and after…

Boeing Aerospace, British Petroleum, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company thank you for reminding everyone that corporations would NEVER cut corners on safety!

Hey, no argument. Marketing was so spectacularly bad I honestly hope people lost their jobs over it. When I heard the initial concept, I thought, “Hell, yeah, this sounds awesome!”

But... there were emergency exits. Before you boarded there was actually a legit safety video, including how a real emergency would alert differently than one that was part of the story. There were signs at the end of every hall as well as marked doors and stairwells. Every passenger room had an emergency exit on the…

I wanna be snarky but, minus the LARPing elements, the hotel sounds like something I would’ve dreamed of and loved to go to as a kid. I haven’t watched the video yet so I can’t speak to where Disney cut corners, but I suspect that child me wouldn’t have cared. If the hotel had been priced at least somewhat affordably…

I’ve often thought it was a little weird that Disney didn’t give you free Disney+ at all their resorts.  At least with this one, you could make the argument that people weren’t going to spend a lot of time in their rooms, but it seems like a no brainer for them to give people a free trial with frequent opportunities…

This is frustratingly every Disney property. Stayed at Aulani a litte while back (absolutely worth it IMO), and you could do a limited "trial" of Disney+. Even Marriott has MAX in every room free for your stay; why Disney doesn't automatically have the streaming service IT OWNS in every on property room is just…