I’m convinced that Brad Pitt has so little sense of his own identity that, when he’s not coupled with someone I basically think he just sits in an empty room staring blankly at the wall. He’s a relationship chameleon. Whenever he’s with someone, he takes on all of their traits and acts like that’s who he’s been all…

This royal holiday card looks like a campaign photo for someone running for treasurer in a small-town conservative district in Ohio.

I’m fully willing to pretend to believe the moon landing didn’t happen if it’ll land me a free personal tour of NASA. Also willing to pretend to believe the earth is flat to get an around-the-world trip to prove to me it’s round, if that’s how this all works.

Go to any random clip of Eastwood’s movies on Youtube (Dirty Harry, for instance), and drown in a litany of “back when there were still real men” comments.

I’m okay with this so long as his future obit is written as “Clint Eastwood, mortal enemy of empty chair, dies at X”

As someone who was abused throughout my childhood and early adult years, this is so much more complicated than “it was her choice.” Abusers regularly beat you, physically or psychologically, to the point where your agency IS taken away. It’s not a perception thing (as in, you perceive your agency is gone). To give you…

An acquaintance of mine had an uncle who wrote a screenplay and produced an Eastwood film (I won’t name which one). According to the family lore, he had another film deal, and Eastwood cut him out of it completely. He sued and won, but Eastwood ensured he never got any more work. Their much longer account of the…

I think you are underestimating the power of abusive relationships. 

Reaaallly gross move on the part of THR. It’s crazy to me that in 2018, during the incredible cultural awakening that is the #MeToo movement, THR ran an obit on an accomplished woman that reduces her to the role of the crazy ex, complete with salacious details about her sex life and presumed psychological…

I’m so sad! I had coffee with Ms. Locke a few years ago to discuss a project. She was so lovely. Kind, smart, a little eccentric, but really a joy to spend a morning drinking coffee (she had tea) and talking about film. She was such a talented woman, both as an actress and filmmaker. She will be missed. 

In the tapes the CBS lawyers showed, they thought that Eliza cursing on set was all the proof they needed to show that SHE was the problem. The video contained cut and dry examples of sexual harassment happening in real time, and it didn’t even register to them that they were shooting themselves in the foot. But a…

Do women in Rock fare any better, really? Where’s today’s Joan Jett, Lita Ford, or even Linda Ronstadt or Stevie Nicks?

I’m not 100% certain I understand what Mr Hill was saying back in 2015, but to my mind, he’s saying that the women playing country are good and worth listening to, while the men are the boring tasteless crap that you have to slog through.

My favorite thing that is terrible about country music is that people rent pick-up trucks to tailgate at country music concerts. . Office workers that drive mini-vans all year go to Hertz the morning of the concert and get a pickup, slap some magnets on it and hang out in the parking lot all day.  And then the next d…

All I can say is at least some of them have figured out they don’t HAVE TO wear a god damned cowboy hat to genre signal. The same-y-ness of male country music vocalists is fucking uncanny. It transcends parody.

This was a full page ad placed by Rick Rubin after Johnny Cash won the Grammy for best country album with very little radio support. It is all any one needs to know about country radio and the artists they support.

Here is an interesting article on promotion behind Got My Name Changed Back:

If I’m not mistaken, Taylor Swift was rejected by the major labels at first and her dad basically funded what was a quasi-independent label in order for her to release her music. I think there were also rumors of payola involved? I’m not sure what is exactly true, either way, Taylor Switf is an outlier b/c country…

Crazy that Kacey Musgraves can do so well at CMAs and not get any radio play.

You’d honestly be more likely to hear those artists get air time on an adult contemporary radio station than modern country.