I think Oliver’s ability to bring people back is limited to specific actions in hindsight that he could change, which is shown is how Moira is saved.  If her didn’t have a connection with the person - or their specific death - it would be hard to “imagine” the way to bring them back.  So if your list is still dead,…

Saw Moulin Rouge on Broadway. Jagged Little Pill is still tops for this season in my picks (it’s just a better whole musical), but the set design and choreography for Moulin Rouge live up to expectation. The song combinations are mostly new and different from the movie (using more works from last 2 decades) and keep…

Um ... rape does NOT require intent. Several forms of rape are strict liability - like statutory rape, or if the person was in fact unconscious or unable to consent, even if the accused also may have lacked mens rea in the act (for example, someone saying they were drunk, so they didn’t realize the woman they…

Garner is pretty fantastic is everything she does (she turns what is functionally a cringe inducing role in Modern Love and makes it understandable and sympathetic), so I could see her carrying this kind of character centric piece. It probably wouldn’t be on my radar if not for this review. 

His previous stated policy is that the brand that is clearly paying for a placement spot doesn’t get more free advertising by name dropping in the review, but named brands just for the joke that are not clearly a product placement (which Flo would not seem to be, and the Heinz is necessary to make the Hunt punchline,…

She clearly had a stage idea for riding a mechanical bull and just went with it. The Studio 8 stage is kind of small, so it’s interesting when music acts who do bigger spectacle/dance shoes figure out ways to try to bring that to the live show within its confines.

Depends ... did Oliver go around leaving his DNA all over the place?

Socialites do a lot of spin class, yoga, and cross fit I assume ....

My first year of college I probably bonded with my eventual best friend because she would walk two blocks to my dorm (where the rest of our social circle lived) every time someone tipped over a candle or lit a mattress on fire in a stairwell. This happened like twice a month. Legit fire issues take a lot longer to…

I think the labor aspect is a big, overlooked detail.

Your understand of a “fair point” is poor. 

As a woman:
1) I am not really worried about trans people in my restroom. Ever.

Also, as a thinking person who is neither an idiot nor prone to giving into fearmongering meant specifically to continue marginalization of oppressed groups:
2) This presumes that men who want to…

Oh yes.  FTL has some weirdness to it in places.  The Ugly Truth is just .... ugh!  It is a weird juxtaposition of several terrible people being terrible with no originality. 

Getting my Carly Simon on stand by for the next column .... bonus points if I read it on the Staten Island Ferry. 

Exactly! For all of Brad’s underwhelming total, his consistent landing of the DD (something like all but 4 or 5 of the 24) significantly impacted the other two players, functionally truncating part of James’s strategy and essentially just making the earlier games head to heads. 

I think Ken was betting on himself in the category versus James in the category.

Ken has a pretty good track record (as shown earlier in the tournament) on Bard based categories (though last night proved his knowledge of the current Broadway season could use a little work). James doesn’t seem to have quite the same…

Alas, no mention of the Jeopardy! GOAT .....

Which is just sad on WOT.  It’s things like that that remind me why we lamented the kinjapocalyse.

I’ve enjoyed that James - who is often a little prickly - seems to clearly be actually fond of Ken, and that there is a distinct appreciation of each other between all three contestants. Also, while Brad is not doing as well, his ridiculous ratio of Daily Double selections is now some kind of running joke.

Nothing in common .... except the creators/writers who are explicitly reworking parts of the fundamental premise with a different kind of family tragedy.

Catharsis.

People enjoy catharsis.  It is literally the foundation of western acted stories. 

Yes, the acting unions have a lot of guidelines about how billing works and some accompanying pay requirements or awards criteria (for example, actors have to be billed above the title for lead roles for the Tonys). It’s why “featuring”, “and”, and “with” are critical credits indicators.

It’s also how I knew Tara was…