Salma Hayek has lived a life of fame, wealth, and luxury that I couldn’t even begin to imagine. And she also withstood the aggressive, repeated, predatory attentions of both Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, both of whom tried to humiliate and slander her when she turned them down. Honestly not sure it’s worth the…

Surely no one who wrote “Bengali in Platforms” could be a racist man.

I don’t understand it, but somehow every single time I’ve ever said some variation of “(X) is easier to get into than Arizona State,” it will turn out that the one person in the group I don’t know, or the random guy standing next to me, or the bartender across from me, went to Arizona State. I don’t know a single ASU…

I went to USC in the mid-2000s. I think Singer had just recently gotten involved in the school as a donor/patron, and I had a lot of friends who lived on the “cinema floor” of one of the freshman dorms. (There were several themed floors you could live on – I requested one of the normal floors, ‘cause I’m not a fucking…

...or that they literally had no plan beyond gutting the existing staff, and have abruptly realized in a panic that they can’t put out a Weekly paper and maintain a website from scratch? (You’d be surprised how many of these types of douchebags really do think that a magazine just assigns, writes, edits, and publishes…

I still remember sitting in an all-staff meeting at an old job, to discuss how the company had failed to meet its projected numbers that year, with mentions that there would be “tough decisions” incoming. One particularly old-school employee piped in: “You said earlier that all of us who (make the company’s…

Agree. It’s already wild enough to think that, if you include 2022, three of the most recent four World Cup hosts would never have qualified if they weren’t hosting. That should really be enough.

Oh wow, I hadn’t actually seen the draw. Nevermind then, that actually is possible. (Though the smart money would be Uruguay-Egypt-Russia-Saudi)

Yeah, those were some odd comparison points to make. Katy Perry’s last album was a somewhat notorious flop; Taylor Swift’s new album only hit streaming services last Friday; Haim have always been far more “media darlings” than “popular band”; and Lorde’s last album sold fine, but didn’t have a single top 10 hit on it.…

At least with soccer it’ll be obvious if something fishy is going on: Russia’s team is ranked 65th in the world. If they even make it out of their group, it’ll be time to ring the alarm.

I’m sure it’s probably problematic in some way to immediately lionize one of the men involved in a story like this, but wow — it had to take a lot of courage to do what Ad-Rock just did. I remember when Adam Yauch died, I thought a lot about those lyrics of his in Sure Shot, and just the way he lived his life…

Also just realized the writer of the Buzzfeed piece had a recent post that really rubbed me the wrong way about her own “process” when writing star profiles. In exacting detail, she talks about her rigorous two-week schedule of reading every single profile ever written about the person (and organizing spreadsheets of…

Nothing screams “Hollywood asshole” like always bringing your wife along places and saying nice things about her.

What really annoys me is that I kinda love that song, and pretty much despise every single other Childish Gambino song. It’s like discovering that Korn secretly ghostwrote “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.”

I mean, I’m naturally inclined to dislike extremely good-looking people from wealthy families whose lives seem a lot easier than mine, and yet that article made me want to start up a Kickstarter to buy Armie Hammer a real nice fruit basket.

This has definitely been true in recent years, but look at the AOTY nominees this year: Kendrick, Jay-Z, Bruno Mars, Childish Gambino, and Lorde. Unless Lorde somehow pulls it off — incredibly unlikely, considering she didn’t get any other nominations — this year at least looks like a pretty non-white course…

As someone who has paid more attention to the Grammys than they’ve ever deserved, I give them undue credit when they even nod their head toward the right direction, and this year they pretty much did that. Kendrick had the album of the year by any normal cultural standard, and hopefully they’ll actually give it to…

Totally. Like, on the one hand, I think the talk about how WB is “destroying” their DC comics IP is a bit overblown. There has been some truly terrible product from both Batman and Superman over the decades, and yet the characters have always been fine in the end. But I do have to stop and remind myself that I – a…

DEEP BREATH…

I’m always telling people this, but having known a lot of people who worked in LA restaurants, it’s rare to find one who doesn’t have a story about Harrison Ford being their favorite customer: tipping generously, shooting the shit when they have downtime, just being an overall mensch. I kind of love the fact that he’s…