This reminds me of an issue PSO2: New Genesis faced when it came to North America. There was a side character named Diggah, who would teach you the value of the upgrade item Dualomite (which reads a bit like the blaxploitation icon Dolemite). Sega swiftly renamed him Excator.

That’s why I asked who in late night today would have that kind of autonomy. Broadway Video co-produces Tonight and Late Night. Maybe Lorne would be interested in reaching a deal to keep those writers’ rooms and SNL going.

James Corden is like Graham Norton without the talent

Yeah, there are celebrities who are more likely to say yes to things that happen to be local. All Jamie Lee Curtis needed to hear was Michelle Yeoh and Simi Valley and she was all aboard for EEAAO.

That reminds me, during the last WGA strike, Letterman’s Worldwide Pants cut a deal to keep its union writers on Late Show and Late Late. And that helped these shows get better bookings, since many guests didn’t want to cross a picket line. Who in late night has that kind of independence from the network to make a…

He once went to a WGA meeting to lobby for the ability to pay his writers less.

I feel like inertia is half the reason it lasted as long as it did, the other half being the fact it was so cheap to make.

After he gets the heave-ho, I demand a week of shows from the CBS This Morning set hosted by Adam Pally and Ben Schwartz.

It wasn’t unwatchable but it wasn’t great. I don’t think it’s a bigger harbinger of doom than most of the other crap clogging up theaters. When I get frustrated about the state of Hollywood, I think of an optional scene in the Kimmy Schmidt special where Jacqueline sits a writer down and he tells her there are only 37…

Apparently, the social team spent a whole year working on it. I admire the effort.

I love the details, like the wanted poster for Omochao or Knuckles wearing the cowboy hat from the OVA.

If Disney’s narrative is accurate and supported by documentation, then I don’t think there’s much Alonso can do about that. If they wanted to fire her over the VFX issues and broken relationships with these effects houses but for whatever reason couldn’t, and found a way to fire her by citing her side hustle, that…

Good for him. The discourse around superhero films is so toxic.

Yeah, it’s also not for me to say what would have been best, since I’m not part of that diaspora. I think S.S. Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Jr NTR et al are over the moon and feel like the win for Naatu Naatu and the song being showcased on television all over the world is a win for Tollywood and for India. I’m only…

The closest AMPAS might offer is this Q&A with producer Raj Kapoor, where he says they ran everything by the Indian side—Rajamouli, D.V.V. Vanayya, everybody. Ram Charan and Jr NTR actually agreed to do it, but then they backed out in late February. So I think the decision they made to just go through their own…

Ke Huy Quan faced a similar issue. He’s talked about doing losing his health insurance in the time between filming EEAAO and when it came out. Other than Finding ‘Ohana, he got almost no work in the interval. Even though he was on the market, he was not in demand.

Yeah, like what does anyone want him to do at this point? He’s been banned from Academy events, his career has clearly suffered, this event will follow him around for the rest of his life. When can he be forgiven?

It wasn’t Jada who slapped him but he has the nerve to go to her hometown and make those nasty jokes about her.

She’s never had top billing in Hollywood. She was a huge star in Hong Kong (though she never won any awards there, either, to my knowledge). Tomorrow Never Dies should have been her fast-track to global stardom but she still faced racism by people who assumed she spoke poor English or who wanted to pigeonhole her.…

I don’t think it’s over the line to point out that Asian actors have been all but ignored by the Academy. And the throughline of many award speeches related to this film, most notably the ensemble SAG honor, is that there are millions of men and women, boys and girls who haven’t seen themselves reflected up there…