I think that’s my favorite Bowie story.

Fun fact: David Bowie hated RENT after being invted to watch it by rosie o’donnell.

Sure but they could have insisted that Cooper not wear a prosthetic but they didn’t for whatever reason. I doubt the film being made hinged on the fake nose.

Not to mention with his hair dyed darker & in black & white, his own nose would actually stand out a little more in contrast. But I guess he saw Nicole Kidman win an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf & decided prosthetics were the answer.

That’s not what Bernstein’s nose looked like though. It certainly wasn’t that pointy. Cooper looks like an evil cartoon on a Nazi propaganda poster.

Sapphardic Jews?  I think you mean Sephardic Jews.

No mention of Carey Mulligan playing Latina though?

the post says they had to cap it at 1990 or else there would be too many songs to whittle down.

Call Me Maybe deserves it. Much harder road.

Call Me Maybe is so summertime because it’s an earworm, upbeat, happy sounding song. It’s perfect for summer fun. I’ve never like Summertime. A lot of the other songs were hits, but a bit more of a downer (just like Roxette’s song).

Fun idea, and obviously a list like this is going to be totally subjective, but you missed the biggest summer song I can recall of the last 30 years: Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado in 2006. There has been nothing in my lifetime I can recall getting more wall-to-wall play for an entire summer than that song.

There is boxing chess.

The asymmetry regarding trans men vs trans women retaining their titles makes perfect sense given that FIDE has a women’s category (and women-specific titles) but no men’s category. There is only the women’s category and an open category. So it makes sense to say that a transitioning trans man can no longer hold on to…

Sorry:

The legions of men who are so put off by someone getting attention that would otherwise be rightfully theirs (for some unarticulated reason) that they will go through the emotional and social upheaval of transitioning to womanhood...obviously. Try to keep up.

I didn’t react that way because I don’t think chess is a big deal, I reacted like that because how the fuck are trans people a threat to chess?

It actually sounds more like you just wanna make up a type of person to be mad at. Like, who are you even talking about?

I for sure don’t agree with the FIDE’s transphobic nonsense, but I do take umbrage with the claim that chess isn’t physical:

Fair enough! Have at it then!

Little known fact: in top level chess men are much stronger than women.