I’m sure Michael would say Michelle Obama. (Barack was tainted by having to make compromises—the essence of representative democracy.)

Thank you.

This is goofy, Mike.

Bill Nunn, sorely missed!

Wonderful video.

That’s the Kuleshov effect. Another guy. Eisenstein wrote about it to explain montage.

Is she saying these remarks amount to dismissing her as a set dresser? I can see why she’d be unhappy about that. I think the same way about Ridley Scott—a pictorialist, not a dramatist. In Meyers’s case, it’s as much a slight on the kinds of stories she tells where there’s so little at stake behind the characters’…

Maria’s dad was Sargent Shriver. Started the Peace Corps? Was he awful?

You just know it was a Subway sandwich.

Is ice cream a date?

And yet Beyonce is not on this list.

Shouldn’t you folks at least try to look busy?

Thank you for this. Still smiling over it.

Hoping to get this for Father’s Day. Hope it includes my category: Dad Your Friends Unfathomably Think Is Interesting. I can hear Young ’Un Morse grinding his teeth when his classmates compliment me (especially for my weird European sneakers or little British clown car).

Asking in all sincerity: Is this self-dramatizing what it takes to be a writer? So many people live through so much hardship without a complaint. These two writers come off especially flimsy as people.

Seriously.

You kids ruined a perfectly good word: jism.

Can we talk for a second about his hair?

What about toxic “sympathy”?

A.P.A. was wrong about homosexuality. (Other things too.)