I mean, she’s not just making it up. Back in January Variety cited Gunn and Safran themselves saying they had “left the door open” for her to stay in the role:

Are we talking about Art Angels? Because that’s the one album of hers that I really dug and she has since disavowed it.

I’d have to do a deep dive down a rabbit hole to find it, but there was an interview with Mike Myers years ago where he talked about a scene they had written where Lowe, Myers, and Tia Carrere would be all onscreen together for the first time.

Given his history and the... zeitgeist we find ourselves in, ol’ Rob might want to keep the references to schoolgirls to a minimum.

Spitting bile with a hint of a smile, Denis Leary brought the underground rantings of Bill Hicks into the mainstream

I still have my thin volume of Graphs, Maps, and Trees on a bookshelf at home.

The implication there, in case it wasn’t clear before now, is that Fox made Scott [choose] between the two projects, and he chose Covenant, but he also told [Empire] that he “should have done Blade Runner 2” as well.

I hadn’t heard about this, and when I got to the part early on about it being a “linguistic analysis of literature”, I thought oh, there have been linguists analyzing literature that way for decades. There was a guy at Mizzou years ago, for example, named Gilbert Youmans who was counting the number of *unique* words…

Like Mulaney, I had always wondered what accent Nichols had. Jeroen Krabbé kind of sounds like Peter Lorre with how he pronounces “Kimble” (or maybe Mulaney imitating Krabbé sounds like Lorre and I conflated the two in my mind). Finally looked up Krabbé, and he’s Dutch, which tracks.

Noise, distortion, and static are all atmospheric sounds that help create the type of film the director wants.

I got roped into regularly watching SatC with a now-ex gf. The one moment I remember enjoying while watching it was when Aidan—full of righteous indignation—points out,“ You don’t even wear that ring on your fucking finger.”

It says “unspecified villain”. The rumor, though, is that she’s playing a character that is already established in the MCU, which, if true, would be slightly disappointing for me, because I think she’d make a great Rachel Summers (and Rachel would make a great addition to the MCU).

I honestly think that’s probably what they’re doing. It seems like they had most of the production in the can when the charges against Majors were first published—they were already doing the post-production CGI stuff—so there wasn’t a lot they could do that wouldn’t be cost-prohibitive.

He looked surprisingly spry in that episode of Community he popped up in. Granted, that was 13 years ago now, but whatevs. Bring back the traditional Kang costume, make it a CGI character that Lee voices, and call it a day.

We looked at Days of Thunder and we looked at the style of it, and we started thinking what would it look like if Tony Scott had shot this, and who would it have been? I looked back at who was the ingenue, who was the breakout star in 1989?

Apparently you can make $80K a day by hawking cheap made-in-China hats that read “Make America Great Again” just by having a sentient enema wear one over his comb-over in between tee times, sexual assaults, and racist rants.

That’s because slaves (at least those that survived it) learned valuable skills that could be applied for their personal benefit, just like the Holocaust was all about demonstrating how you had useful skills if you wanted to survive it. Utility! Utility kept you alive!

In And Just Like That..., however, Carrie has fully relocated from everywoman relatability to that world of absurd affluence.

To try to square the circle of this thread: I don’t think it was a conspiracy, but like someone said upthread, Musk is in fact a useful idiot. His colossal ineptitude and all-but-deliberate running of Twitter into the ground does benefit autocratic regimes (like the Saudi royal family) who stand to gain more from…

I know I’m old for several reasons (including... well, I’m old), but this list and the comments here have given me several more, mostly variations on “How did people not know X was a musician?” (Steve Martin? The dude who played the banjo on stage during literally every one of his standup performances?) and “How has…