Well we’ve got a gritty reboot of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, so...

Marco Rubio pegged it during the primaries: if Trump hadn’t been the son of a millionaire he’d be hawking knock off watches on a street corner.

Ah Don King, a convicted double murderer

I think in some ways it benefits from not showing her story but only suggesting it.  The fact that we only get the broadest outlines of her story after she breaks up with Tom really, in an odd way, cements the idea that she’s a distinct character with her own life to live.  Her romance with her, I believe unnamed,…

He’s also an admitted wife beater.  Robin Givens said that being married to him was “pure hell” and he publicly bragged that the best punch he ever threw was during one of the times he was beating her. 

I just can’t get over how the media treats Tyson like just some other celebrity.  This guy is a convicted rapist, registered sex offender, and admitted wife beater who once bragged that the best punch he ever threw was when he was beating his wife. 

It’s a deconstruction, or at least meant as such.  Summer, as played by Deschannel who basically presents as an MPDG in life, embodies a lot of those outward elements of the trope: she’s quirky and cute and energetic.  But they subvert the trope by having her be her own person and not just a device for Tom’s story.

She tried to kill Ford as he worked a rope line.  Pointed a loaded gun at him but was restrained by Secret Service agents.  She served like thirty years or something and I think is the only would be presidential assassin to ever be released from prison.

I haven’t seen the film, but people who have don’t seem to be clear on the flashback being Pitt’s fantasy. 

They can not mythologize them, but I think it’s probably a mistake to omit the centrality of racism to Manson’s worldview and crimes. 

In real life, Tate begged the killers to take her captive so that she could live long enough to give birth to her child. It’s one of the horrific details of a particularly gruesome crime.

The LA Times also had a long piece about how Manson was able to recruit all these followers, with Lake as the centerpiece of the story.  It’s pretty tragic.  Her parents were basically middle class people who dropped out and became hippies, abandoning her along the way.  She talks about how Manson initially seemed…

I don’t think that the fact that it’s a fantasy of 1960s hollywood makes it much better.

Right.  It’s taking a martial arts legend and turning him into just a tool to verify what a tough guy the, fictional, white protagonist is. 

I don’t think Ewan is particularly good either.  His Obi-Wan is pretty lifeless, without any of the slyness of Alec Guinness version.

Yes, it was a roast of Whoopi and Ted, who was dating her at the time, did his bit in blackface.  After the controversy broke out Whoopi said that she had actually written the bit he performed and asked him to do it in blackface.

One of the things that still baffles me is that most of the performances are so lifeless.  There’s tons of good actors in the prequels but other than Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine I don’t think there’s any real good performances.

It’s perhaps no coincidence that the best film of the original trilogy is Empire.  He stepped back from directing after A New Hope and hired Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay after he came up with some ideas based on Leigh Brackett’s original draft. 

Oh you mean stuff like the vagina eggs?

It would be a nice nod to the comics since Crisis on Infinite Earths contained an appearance by every character which DC owned the rights for (except for Hal Jordan, for some weird reason).