21 seems awfully young to take such drastic steps to find a life partner. Or at least - as a 22 year old without a ring on it - I really hope so. In seriousness, I wondered if he's considered church/bible study? I know straight edge doesn't necessarily mean Christian, but he'd find a higher amount of young people who…

If my guess is correct, it was probably put together on Photoshop in about twenty minutes by an underpaid goon who may not have even googled the movie. Because of the prejudice of the times, Moore received lower billing than her screentime warranted, so the maker of this cover probably just googled the first few names…

My guess is this is from a bargain basement DVD release (maybe the movie went out of copyright like His Girl Friday, of which there are many low-quality DVD releases from small, often semi-legit companies). It looks like the cover of lots of ebook editions of out-of-copyright books.

That can't be an actual poster, can it? It looks so cobbled-together. Papyrus for the title?!!

Okay, either this was already well-documented fact or I know far too much about Friends. Probably the latter. In any case, Kudrow is still my favourite, and I'm inferring from this article that her 'best friend' position may be open...

Due to cultural preference for male children, it was creating a significant gender disparity. In the long run, that would have been disastrous. Already, there have been several articles written about the dangers of this trend for future generations: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business…

I love Prosper (so Puritan!), Bramwell and Purdy! So sue me!

Yes, it's a puzzler in all honesty. Especially given that the voice is not actually taken direct from the movie - The Dude's lines are incorporated into the woman's dialogue, and she uses 'tu' when in the French dub she uses 'vous'. Makes me wonder if the sample was actually recorded for the song.

Also she sampled Maude's 'feminists love sex' monologue from the French dub of The Big Lebowski! Towards the end of Partition.

The only time in my life when three of my great loves - the Coen brothers, French and Bey - have truly, beautifully come together.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was weirdly moved by that. 'Down to earth' is a phrase that gets used a lot to describe any famous person with a modicum of basic decency, but Amy never seems anything but a genuinely thoughtful, respectful and considerate person (as well as being extremely good at her job).

It's definitely not a slur on the level of 'faggot' or anything. Perhaps closer to 'queeny', but less gay-specific. For one thing, it can be used to describe straight men - like theatre luvvies, for instance. But given that he was clearly referring to Sir Ian (given that Christopher Lee has had a long, though slightly…

If you like raunchy pre-Code movies about hard-edged girls sleeping their way through the business world, check out Baby Face if you haven't already. It stars Barbara Stanwyck as a tough teenager brought up in a saloon who decides to get even for the poverty and sexual abuse she has suffered by sleeping her way to a…

This will be fabulous if they do it right - West was the definition of a 'character'. Personally, I thought Patricia Arquette was channelling her pretty hard this season of Boardwalk Empire, but Bette Midler definitely has the chops (and a ballpark resemblance, to boot) to make this work.

Politics aside, that was truly phenomenal reporting. My heart was in my mouth following the ups and downs of Dasani's frighteningly fragile world, and by the end I was almost sick wondering what note the story would end on. The complex forces which have created this situation were so skilfully evoked that, as a…

Well, he lives in a multiethnic area of London, but went to an elite school outside the city where he was one of very few POC, and then to a similar university, but I don't see why you are so certain that not having dated a black girl can only be coincidental if he grew up somewhere with no black people and never…

That's life! / That's what all the people say! / Ridin' high in April / Impregnated by ghosts in May!

Haha, no problem. Been there myself a million times. Just pour a glass of wine and think about the miraculous fact that very soon this crisis will be consigned to history :D

My speciality leans more towards early modern and classical French drama, but I did an awful lot of work on Montaigne for a stand-alone module - could you work him in for context? He was one of the earliest proponents of moral and cultural relativism (with particular reference to the then-recent exploration of the New…

Ok, thanks for that awesome explanation - that is definitely more what I had in mind. This is roughly how I was taught to write in the UK in the mid/late 90s (but with looped f, g and y). So is US script more complicated? And if so, couldn't they teach a simpler joined-up alphabet? I'm just finding it hard to picture…

Wait, wait... So this is saying that in the US people aren't writing joined up letters? We weren't allowed to use print beyond about six - and with good reason, why would anyone use print? Maybe for a note or a label, but joined-up is so much faster! All these years, when Americans talked about cursive I assumed it…