Nope, sorry - Foxx can sing, but so can a million other, more interesting choices. Three words: Brian Stokes Mitchell. Edit for video...

members of the two races had ... different traditions: the junior class plans the white prom, and the senior class plans the black prom.

What I meant is, the urge to have sex is going to come to them naturally (how successfully that sex goes is definitely more appropriate for teenagers). It seems weird to describe it so... erotically, to a bunch of young children.

This is just like the start of awesome 1930s film My Man Godfrey, when the wealthy female lead meets the male lead (a homeless guy in the Depression) whilst on a scavenger hunt for a "forgotten man" as part of a horribly insensitive rich people party game.

I confess I find the emphasis on orgasms a tad creepy. There's no reason to hammer home how great sex feels to a bunch of little kids like some oversharing aunt after too much pinot grigio - I'm pretty sure they'll work that out the second they hit puberty. Sex has never really needed promotion. Just show them the…

This is gross. This is exactly what we mean when we talk about male as the "default gender" and women as this weird and slightly annoying exception. It would be one thing to have a male and female list (although, why?) but to have a list of bona fide "novelists" and a list of "full-time females who also write novels…

N0t usually big on remakes, but this one has me intrigued, mostly because although Sinatra and Brando were awesome as individuals, the 1950s film did not do justice to the musical. Like, at all. It was a bit lifeless, probably due to the omnipresence of obvious dubbing. The 1992 Broadway version with Nathan Lane and…

This is truly brilliant. Michael Shannon ranks pretty high on my list of "pretty sure I could be talked into it". He's the best thing about Boardwalk Empire after Buscemi and Stephen Graham's Al Capone.

I LOVE the tremulous tone in her voice throughout the interview as she tries very hard to play it straight. The fact that he seemed baffled by the very first question was obviously playing on her mind the whole time. Kudos for getting him off the phone before letting it out...

Ladies and gents, I think we've found the solution...

I've seen no evidence anywhere that suggests "master" here is connected with slavery. History did not revolve solely around the things our 21st century brains have highlighted as the most important - for one thing, so few people actually owned a plantation (8% of Southerns owned at least one slave, and the majority of…

Reading the comments here, I am disturbed and saddened to find that a lot of people (probably driven by otherwise commendable interest in protecting minority cultures) are letting their true colours shine through with regard to adoption. Despite their progressive veneers, scratch it and it doesn't take long for them…

Not hugely flattering for the millions of men already there...

Jesus Christ, save the one that's gonna rip my fuckin' heart in two for last, why don't you?! But seriously, good luck to the guy, I hope it's nothing serious. Can't imagine a fatigued Dick van Dyke somehow.

Thirded! The only tough part is trying to get your ass out of bed to go buy some, unless you're very prepared and have already bought it in preparation :D

Loads and loads of water before you go to bed, and miso soup the next day. It's salty and gentle and requires no effort to consume. The problem is that a lot of the time you're too spacey and tired to remember the water, and then you wake up like "Ooooh, shit..."

Yes. The same mistake was made in the VERY shoddy Gawker article filed earlier. Torrents of abusive and fact-starved vitriol about that old hard-Left boogeyman and answer to all woes - "Thatcher". Reading it, was exactly like being cornered by a middle-aged ex-punk in a dodgy pub.

Agreed. Of course not everyone agrees with her policies. And yet she was so relentlessly ridiculed, abused and dehumanised, often in terms of her gender - "witch" "cow" "slag" "bitch" etc are all highly-gendered words I have seen used to describe her dozens of times online.

I mostly like the new layout and took to it instantly, so congrats. The one thing I would say is that scrolling through the comment thread individually is tiresome (not least becauses it forces one to dwell on trolling/hate speech comments for at least a second or two rather than quickly scrolling down). However, the…

Oh my Lord, I remember that. It made me want to tear out my ovaries...