And *spoiler for RR*

Snicket confirmed their father's death in the 12th book (I think). The mother's wasn't though, since she's probably B, she's probably dead too.

That's what baffles me. I get making a dumb kid movie. But not so much spending oodles and oodles of money it's never going to make back.

Is Sterculius married to Cloacina?

They have that link for all book reviews. And it seems fairly honest. "Here's our take, but obviously it's your call."

It's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding what "quote" means in this context, but my interpretation was that the "quote" was what the studio offered him, not what he asked for from the studio.

It sounds like he didn't "ask" though. He was offered more. It's easy to make more money when they just give it to you.

Yeah, I think having June live would have required some heavy plot contortions that would take up a lot of book-space. I feel very neutral about this book (lots of positive and negative feelings), but it definitely excited me about the author and what she might write later.

Yeah, it's why I thought it might work for "small, non-trivial fact". Maybe we need to coin a new word? Factette? Minifact?

We need a word for a "small yet non-trivial fact," which is why people use it. Datum?

Hmmmm… you're right. Trivia maybe?

Maybe it took a long time to get funding?

True. But the beliefs come from largely different places. One is more superstitious/religious and the other is political.

Not really the same thing though. People have believed irrational things of little immediate import forever (e.g. Buildings not having 13th floors because a number is "unlucky").

In the 70s, it was officially believed that cocaine was not addictive. Interesting factoid? Leon Trotsky's granddaughter, a research physician, was the one who proved that it was addictive and demonstrated the brain/neurological mechanism that caused the addiction.

I think you switched the names! It's June who is missing right? May was killed.

She owned a PR firm, which strikes me as a bon mot-heavy industry.

Well, at one time, the only job "society women" had was coming up with too clever put downs and bon mots.

Faked his own death. See? So easy…

I think that makes sense though. If you're going to change things, it should be a change for the better or at least not for the worse. It's galling to have them mess with something you like only to produce something bad.