"This is my treat," he said, something he would announce proudly and often in the days to come. When a young man passing by eyed us up and down, he wrapped his arm around my waist and said, "He's wondering what a girl like you is doing with someone like me."

I looked into it, apparently his health problems (unfortunately he has both Parkinson's Disease and prostate cancer) meant that he couldn't consistently deliver his lines on set or wear the makeup/costume necessary to portray the character. But because they still wanted him, they had him act (not sure if this included…

The Mists of Avalon. It's kind of a cheesy fantasy but an excellent retelling of Arthur from the "evil" witches / women's point of view.

Still flawless.

I'm an American living in London, and I am constantly amused (and dismayed) by the complete lack of knowledge by Europeans on what health care actually costs. When I tell them how much my uninsured hospital bills and Rx costs were back in the States, I always get the same slack-jawed, stunned look.

That's a cool pic of Anne Bonney. Someone needs to turn that into a film.

When I lived in England, I got terribly sick and had to go to the ER. When we got there, I waited 10 mins and was seen by a doctor. They did three tests, gave me a prescription and then I was allowed to leave. I never received a bill, and everything was covered - which is the exact opposite of what would happen had I…

i think a lot of americans genuinely don't know or understand how insurance works in most of europe. or they don't believe it's that good.

One of my friends (europe) broke his leg in the states - flew back with basically no care to go to the hospital here since he would have had to pay a loooot of money in the states according to him. I think many americans would change their opinion about healthcare if they would live in europe for some time, I…

madonna has gone from icon to selfish, out of touch old lady.

Ew. Seriously?

If people stop using the word "foodie", how are we gonna know which people to hate?

I think having a multi-film Venom saga is the best possible way to do it. It may not have worked, but it would have better than the mess we got. Besides, that Sandman really deserved the whole movie. That's the tragic thing. There were all these awesome elements that by themselves would have been fantastic, but in the…

"Ugly is a bad word, you cannot say it to anyone except to mean strangers I don't know."

Team Cat Headquarters here;

I have an acquaintance who is a "childbirth educator" who shared an article about the increase in whooping cough cases in California. Her comment: "Notice that 90% of these children had already been "vaccinated". Makes you think, doesn't it?"

"...but many of these people feel they can do better research than the scientific community."

I'd love to see new regulations and laws on the books that declare not vaccinating your kids is tantamount to child abuse. Of course in that case the actual vaccinations should be paid for by the government, but then people would start blaming Obama...

The rats cheated in the "Jump In The Air". Well, not them, but the human: the rat just did a regular jump, exactly as in a previous trick, and the human moved his arm under the rat.

What about one family being the sole surviving family of a natural disaster, and repopulating the earth with four males and four females, with one male/female pairing the biological parents of the other three males? It's an in-breeder's paradise.