By the end of his term in office the far right despised Bush junior for not being a proper bigot, in the same way they despised Neocons who displayed no particular interest in destroying the country from within.

Former famous people whose lifesyle can no longer be supported by their current income so they pimp themselves out for $$$.

I still smell money, I smelled money when, on 2 occasions that I’m aware of, Kim Kardashian showed up in to oval office too.

What did Trump pay Steve Harvey to be nice to him? Something like $90,000, right? I get the impression wheelbarrows of money had been sent to Kayne to get him to suck-up to Trump. A big payday for a few black pastors too. Trump’s racist white base should be offended, all they got from Trump is left out in the cold.

So much of what we now know as ‘detective noir’ came directly from Bullett. The taciturn loaner detective, the chase scene, the double-crossing superior. Its basically a template for 50 movies and TV series to comes.

Gee, I never heard of a white movie start behaving like that! Chevy Chase was the picture of propriety! Steven Seagal was always respectful on set. Crispin Glover was as normal as can be. Jared Leto and Johnny Depp? Consummate professionals! Richard Burton? Never performed drunk a day in his life.

On the subject of Disney, its funny how AV Club barely touched on what an unmitigated disaster Mulan was on every level. Shouldn’t that have been the biggest AV Club story of the year?

There have been reports about which demographic in which region likes which flavor of porn. Apparently deep red states go for the transgressive taboo stuff. The stuff that would most shock their religious and racial sensibilities. I recall reading once that a surprisingly common search term in red states is “How to…

The thinking on Depp has changed a bit. Since he’s grown old and ugly there’s not many ‘He was my first crush! Don’’t say mean things about him!’ defenders anymore. Mostly now its ‘Yeh, he’s a garbage person and a drunk but Heard ain’t Mother Theresa.’

After the Egyptian military coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Morsi the Egyptian police used tear gas purchased from the United States to crush pro-democracy demonstrations.

A pretty young woman married a drunkard who looks like a damp dishrag because he’s rich and famous then finds herself getting beaten and threatened. That’s the plot of a lurid novel. Beating a ho doesn’t make the guy any less of a wife beater.

At this point the story is no longer about Trump. The story is about people who would willingly cast a vote for this monster. These folks need to know they will not be tolerated by decent people.

Only a Disney exec could make Michael Bay into a sympathetic character.

Is that more of less of an age gap as ‘brothers’ Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in ‘Rain Man’?

I didn’t notice at the time, but in hindsight it was odd that none of the women characters had any women friends that I can recall

I cringe at the mention of that execrable Indiana Jones movie. If you want a film of Connery at his best look up ‘The Molly Maguires’ from 1970. I’m also rather fond of ‘The Anderson Tapes’ from 1971, mostly for the scene that implies Diane Cannon is about to give him a BJ.

The older I get the more annoyed I become with Spielberg movies. Films I once liked very much I now feel are manipulating me with scenes of unearned sentimentality. Its like painting a detailed portrait using a trowel, moving from drama into melodrama. That’s what made ‘AI’ unwatchable for me.

If you’re talking genuine fear it was Henry James ‘The Turn of The Screw’. I was alone in my apt. reading the book in bed late at night. Just at the moment when the heroine gets up from her bed, goes into the dark hallway and first glimpses the ghost at the bottom of the stairs BAM! All the lights went out in the…

Its the same old story. Someone who you used to associate with goes full-on Trumptard so you’re obliged to go around saying ‘Not its not me, I promise. It has nothing to do with me. It’s him, not me.’

We don’t need schlock horror pandemic movies but I would appreciate some recognition from current normal-ass TV that we’re in an altered world. I was watching a foreign series. I flinched every time they mentioned flying in from NYC and holding public concerts and attending college courses. No, I thought, NO. You know…