I’m not disagreeing with you in general, but Johnny Depp’s life is being picked apart too as of late (as it should be; everyone is fair game in this needlessly public mess as far as I’m concerned). Exhibit A, this piece from Page Six two days ago:

Those three safety pins in the left ear are causing me douche rage.

Possibly. But Depp and Heard dated for two years (and knew each other for twice as long) before they got married. Depp’s reputation for substance abuse goes back to his Viper Room ownership days. Maybe I have too much firsthand experience with addicts to have a lot of sympathy for anyone expressing surprise that…

Hm, an astute point but I was in the minority there, apparently: I thought Holmes was INSANE to marry Cruise and was almost surely doing it for a payout (and perhaps to advance her career), which she decided in the end wasn’t worth it, and so she cut out early. I’m glad she got out, but only for the sake of her kid,…

Winona forever, but she deserves better than this clown. Winona has impeccable taste in musicians — I mean music — and there is no way she’d put up with Depp’s Hollywood Vampires bloated dad-rock nonsense.

She’s thirty. And while I don’t follow her closely, “dumb” or even “naive” don’t strike me as words anyone would use to describe her. She’s educated and comes from a fairly wealthy, well-traveled background. I think she knew exactly what she was getting into. Believe me, I think he’s just as ridiculous as she is (I am…

I think the reason why few can muster any sympathy for Amber is because Depp’s problems were evident to everyone with eyeballs before they ever got married. I mean ... can you really complain that your husband is a drunk, or a wannabe rock star, or is embarrassingly dressed, or so up his own island-owning ass that he…

You don’t marry someone with an active addiction and THEN issue an ultimatum, though (if you issue an ultimatum at all — I would think that depends on the circumstances). I mean ... it’s not like Johnny picked up the bottle (and whatever else he is on) 15 months ago. You don’t even need to date him to smell the…

Well, I think there are a fair share of commenters here who would say that it’s shitty to ridicule anyone for aging, man or woman (I’m one of them). Still, I think there’s a difference between rudely laughing at someone for simply having the nerve to grow older, which is always uncool, and pointing out that lifestyle…

Oh please, people rag on women for “aging poorly” and “losing their looks” and “letting themselves go” all the time. It’s shitty when we do it to men, and it’s shitty when we do it to women.

Well, I didn’t feel attacked, exactly (that would be an overreaction on my part). My reaction to this story was basically “Did anyone really expect that a controversial documentary about child actor rape was going to be a box-office smash?” directed to the author of this piece (even Deadline Hollywood, to whom the…

I don’t disagree with anything that you have said. An Open Secret is far from a perfect film for all the reasons that you have mentioned. I just don’t know why you are directing this rant at me. I didn’t even praise the film, really.

Well, do it for the kids, then. Look, you obviously seem to care about music. In the interest of not perpetuating misinformation (and not dismissing the major cultural contributions of Chris Stein, Clem Burke, et al.) for future generations, we who know better should disabuse the idea that Blondie is Deborah Harry.

What a weirdly defensive comment. Anyone following along even casually knows about the problems with Michael Egan’s testimony. Thank you for your definition of what a documentary is, though.

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I love Lauryn, but I LOL’d

She’s the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul!

I don’t think Harry would allow herself to be included if asked. Some of her white fans may be delusional, but she isn’t, thankfully.

Well, Harry really doesn’t like it. If you are a fan, you may want to break yourself of that habit.

Blondie is not a rapper. Blondie is also not a person.