I’m struggling to think of another example of a filmmaker whose career began so auspiciously, who so utterly and completely sold his soul and talent to become a director who’d have to improve in order to rate as a hack.

We’ve got a new edgelord here people! He’s the commenter his brain says the world needs!

it goes without saying that he’s already qualified for the position.

Ah yes it’s just merit that put a bunch of white dudes in the top late night comedy shows

Goodness gracious that sounds like a horrifying experience.  Geez. I hate to think of how many young women had to go through that.  :(

Because surely there’s no merit in having a unique voice and perspective developed by existing as a minority in this country. Surely diversity of thought and experience isn’t important. Surely racial and ethnic diversity has no merit in terms of attracting a bigger and different audience who find that perspective…

“Wood says he doesn’t ‘believe diversity to be the paramount priority [anymore].’”

Eh, likely more the case that for the execs, diversity not being the paramount priority just means not bothering to look any farther than the most convenient pool of homogenous-looking folks.

Good for her! Also I was like 10 years old when First Knight came out, it’s not a good movie but I have a soft spot for it. I thought she was so pretty and cool, this bums me out. But get ‘em, Julia!

The Artful Doctor <= it was right there!

The twist is that the main villain is really Oliver Twist.

sorry this happened to her, but damn it’s also awesome she’s going after the big corps.

You recall it incorrectly.

You’re quite right in your assessment. It even shows in these line graphs of usage:

I know this is an important story so I shouldn’t really be focusing on this, but “the Potomic”?

Every gay person has watched thousands of hours of entertainment about straight people growing up and it didn’t make them straight. But religious conservatives are somehow convinced one frame of gayness will magically turn their straight kids gay.

Say, that interview with Letterman sure was awesome. I wonder who did it...

They finally fessed up to something they fessed up to 40 years ago.

the writer/directors and Letterman finally fess up to what happened.

Unfortunately, it seems that for one exceptionally creepy demographic in Hollywood writing and directing circles, they can’t live a happy life unless they put awful shit like this on celluloid under the guise of “raw filmmaking.”