is the issue the subject matter of Alzheimer’s or that it’s based on Ronald Regan? I think the premise has much less to do with laughing at a terrible disease than framing it as a satire of how easy it is to manipulate the American people.

I’ve read the script and saw the live reading. It in no way makes fun of Reagan or dementia, but does posit that his vile administration took advantage of him when he was vulnerable to do the Iran contra shit. Reagan is portrayed in a pretty dignified manner. I hope Davis read it before commenting, but it sounds like…

But the subject of any artistic product is no measure by which to judge the product itself. We have to wait to see how it’s done before we can judge, no?

Because we can’t have nice things.

Exactly.He has every right to feel frustrated or hurt when people slam him for something, he’s human and not a robot and obviously a good person. But he doesn’t use that shit as an excuse not to keep fighting. He takes it and moves on and tries to do better. Which is good.

I think...we all just need to take a little…

I do absolutely get the “it’s easier for a man to be a feminist” thing. Every now and then a troll will presume I’m a woman and I’ll get a fraction of the gendered harassment that women on this site get, and it’s such a heartbreakingly personal reminder of how I, as an ally, can't truly understand the psychic toll of…

How do you know when someone is a vegan?

She probably meant to say “test the taste of the tea by smelling” and misspoke. If someone judged my intelligence based on the amount I misspeak they’d marvel at how I even got out of bed in the morning.

When I was decorating my 22 room apartment, I realized pretty quickly that thematically, you can only hang so many paintings by Dutch masters before you really want to try to mix it up. I mean, really, you can’t hang more than one or two van Gogh’s, tops, and once the second sitting room has a Degas, and you’ve placed…

I mean, someone down-thread made an excellent point: this stupid group is composed of exactly the kind of anti-science morons The Honest Company is marketed to, so meh.

I saw a commercial for them that was like “you don’t want to use chemicals around your baby!!!!” and I was like oh ok so you’re marketing to ignoramuses who don’t know what chemicals are, are terrified of “toxins” but can't explain what that means, and are probably afraid of GMOs again without being able to tell you…

I would guess it would be difficult to create a formula that meets additional organic requirements from random groups while also meeting FDA nutrition requirements.

I’m not saying it’s better to whitewash the part, but there would have been comparable amounts of Internet rage over using an Asian actor of nonChinese origin. A lot of people protested the Chinese actresses that were cast in Memoirs of a Geisha, and I’m sure they would have done the same here.

But come on: here’s a country of one billion people who you see as so powerful that you’ll change a character’s ethnicity to fit your perceptions of their taste, but who you also see as so incredibly stupid that merely “acknowledging that Tibet is a place” will render them so apoplectic with politicized rage that…

I believe the concern is that if the character is Tibetan then the Chinese government will not allow the movie to be distributed in China at all. It’s not a free market, they have a limited number of slots for non-domestic films and they have to be approved by censors. So they’re not worried about how the Chinese…

The issue of whitewashing aside, this may be totally valid. It likely would have banned in China if they lead cast were Tibetan. If the lead were Chinese, people would bitch about it, and rightly, because it’s not like China hasn’t done a great job already trying to erase Tibetan people and Tibetan culture. Cast…

As somebody who grew up watching and loving ECW, those matches were both a blessing and a curse. It was great to see Cactus Jack and Sabu just go apeshit on each other for 20 minutes, but after a while the crowd wants more, and you have to keep upping the brutality and the content. My go to example for that is TLC II…

This is just...so dumb.

GoT had no more “boobs and blood” than a lot of premium HBO TV, from Deadwood to Rome.

GOT has always got by on the stellar acting from its core cast and a story that keeps people tuning in next week to see what happens to people they’re invested in.

The only people who care about the boobs are…

Good point!