To be fair to CNN, the outlet wasn’t the only one to snap up the bait: The Guardian, New York Post, and U.K. newspaper The Telegraph were among the other publications...

Yep. Yesterday was plain fucking unreal.

And this is how you write a headline about an episode with a shocking event without spoiling said shocking event for the people who haven’t had a chance to watch the episode yet.

The last contemporary Tarantino movie was Death Proof in 2007. For the Coens it was Burn After Reading in 2008. For Paul Thomas Anderson it was Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. For Wes Anderson it was The Darjeeling Limited in 2007. For Steven Spielberg it was War of the Worlds in 2005. For Guillermo del Toro it was Hellboy…

And maybe Nintendo shouldn’t be so litigigous over shit that wasn’t hurting anyone in the first place.

Great question! Jewish is a religious and ethnic classification, not a race.

Leguizamo is way off base here, but playing a Japanese video game character based on an Italian stereotype in a movie is hardly “cultural appropriation.”

Yeah, pretty much. I’m all for the goal of more diversity, and he’s right that Latin people are often left out of the diversity conversation and are underrepresented in films. This particular one seems like an ill-conceived hill to die on, though,

I’d go further and say Mario and Luigi are really Japanese video game characters based on Italian stereotypes. It doesn’t really matter the race or ethnic background of the people voicing these characters. But to Leguizamo’s point, in general it’s good to have a diverse representation.

The cast of The Super Mario Bros. Movie does include Anya Taylor-Joy, who was raised in Argentina and has Argentinian heritage, though most have agreed she would not be classified as a person of color.

Adam Lambert was one of my first thoughts as well, ironically since Stewart walked out before singing one of his songs.

Jennifer Hudson probably belongs in the famous tier, she’s got the EGOT, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, sold 1 million+ albums, was in the nightmare fuel Cats movie, etc.

Wasn’t it kind of the rule that it’s better to come in, like, third? Because that way you’ve got some exposure but don’t end up with the predatory recording contract that reads like indentured servitude? (Good news, you WON!! Bad news, you’re locked into a recording and touring contract that pays worse than a paper…

“Literally one school for all of England” = literally elite
“Muggleborns go there” = they admit a handful of poors
“Their dad literally works a 9-5 office job” = as the head of a government department

They are children going to an elite, exclusive, private school. They are all aristocrats. Even the Weasleys.  Sure the kids have hand me down clothes but they also have a stay at home mom and live in a big ass house on a huge plot of land. Wizard are aristocrats 

And it used to be the basis of English education; Look up the Eleven Plus Exam. Deciding your entire education, and thus prospects at 11 years old. And from there, if you were sorted into Public (really private, elitest) schools you might find further classification into the Houses...

Definitely agree. If anything, Slytherin should be representative of some of the very best wizards in history as well as the very worst. The entire framing of it could have been “Drive and ambition and thirst for power and glory can lead to great success, but it can also be the most corrupting.” Instead you get a…

Yeah as someone with little interest in the source material, the issues with Slytherin and the many other ethical issues in HP mostly seem to stem from the over-stretching of what is a heavily formulaic setting purpose built for a specific story.

Honestly Rowling has done a pretty good job of evening the reputations of the four houses, if you ask me. Back in the day if you claimed to be a Slytherin, people might assume you were bigoted, or at least too self-centered to recognize oppression. But nowadays you can pretty reasonably assume that of adults who still…

Roman is definitely the most self-aware Roy kid, even if he does hide a lot of it in provocateur antics and artisan level sardonic cut-downs. That arc where Gerri sent him to business school (before he screwed up the whole shuttle launch) was a very solid trajectory for him. Recently, he’s the only Roy who actually…