When has there ever been a biopic where and actor didn’t wear prosthetics of one sort or another to more closely resemble the historical person? Hugh Grant wore a huge prosthetic nose playing Chopin in ‘Impromptu’ in 1991 (except the nose looked so stupid on-screen they had to re-film virtually all of his scenes in…

And what are you, an entitled Chauvinist? What ‘rule’ keeps Ms. Johannson from playing a tree or Alan Cumming from playing a straight guy?

From my past experience with BBC news interviews the British political press don’t take no shit. They expect straight answers to pertinent questions and will get combative if you try bullshitting them. Their parliamentary system fosters open, lively (sometime hostile) debate. The American press wouldn’t recognize the S…

Jake Paul is evidence that being an ‘Instagram star’ is not quite on the same level as actually being a star. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an ‘influencer’ these days.

I recall an anecdote from the from the film ‘Marathon Man’. Dustin Hoffman was was working himself into a ‘method acting’ mental frenzy for a scene when his co-star sir Lawrence Olivier leaned in and suggested ‘My dear, why not instead try acting.”

I wonder if its a coincidence that this new production got green-lighted after the wildly popular British podcast ‘My Dad Wrote A Porno’ did an extended riff on ‘The Secret Garden’ in one their episodes. Of course, on the podcast someone had to ask if the secret in the garden involved a vagina. He was assured, no it…

I let this article sit for a bit before visiting to see what people would post for ‘reasonable discussions’ these days. Not many takers. I guess in the current era of biblical plagues and ruthless tyrannies the word ‘reasonable’ limits the choice of topic.

I recall when Billy Bush lost his job because he was such as craven suck-up to sex predator Trump. People seemed to forget we were talking about ‘Access Hollywood’, the show that cravenly sucks up to EVERYBODY. You laugh at their crude jokes and nod in approval at whatever offensive garbage the spew. That’s what…

Though I haven’t seen it in decades, I’ve watched that film ten times at least. Wallis Shawn’s character was meant to be the stand-in for the audience, listening to Andre go on and on with increasing alarm.

I knew someone who tried to tell me about the gubmint withholding from the public NAZI flying saucer technology they’ve had since WWII. I of course laughed in his face and told him he sounded like he was having a schizophrenic episode with the absurdist nonsense he’s spouting.

What’s your opinion of the great James Earl Jones being the voice actor for Luke Skywalker’s father? Should activists have demanded the role go to an English/Scottish/Welsh/Swedish ethnicity actor to match with Mark Hamill?

50 years ago liberalism was promoting the egalitarian notion of ‘one world family’ where all men are brothers. Now its pushing a reductive brand of chauvinism, dividing and sudividing groups into smaller and smaller untouchable enclaves. Liberalism has gone conservative.

Its a community support group for what would otherwise be isolated crazy people.

I recall a neurologist once quipping that the world is divided between people who see a face when they look at a door knob and those who don’t see a face when they look at a door knob. Which are you? And BTW, even if you see do a face in the door knob that doesn’t mean it’s actually a face.

Trump is the worst liar I’ve ever seen in my life if the point of lying is to convince people of what you’re saying. But there’s another use for the brazen obvious lie, that’s to show contempt for the people you’re talking to. Every time Trump opens his mouth he shows contempt for his supporters, for the GOP, for…

Somehow I’m reminded of Willie Nelson who bought an ostrich farm as a tax dodge then got in hot water with the IRS when he still had to pay taxes, anyway.

I’m reminded of the old 1981 film ‘My Dinner With Andre’. The titular character’s trembling voice as he recounts his increasingly lurid experiences in some German forest as part of... I don’t know what, a group acting exercise? Eventually he’s describing a building whose roof is designed so it can levitate for when…

Whatever happened to the concept of cooking food before eating it?

I quipped 25+ years ago the GOP would rather rule over a heap of ashes and rubble than play second fiddle to a prosperous thriving nation. Well, welcome to the ashes & rubble phase of Republican rule.

‘Libertarianism’ raised the concept of being a selfish dick to other people to a social philosophy. Which is all well and good until the boat we’re all in together capsizes.