You guessed it . . . Frank Stallone.

Yeah, one awkward part of the case is that Spacey was available and willing to appear on the show. It’s not like he was in jail or physically unable to act. Even if you think producers were right to conclude the show should not go forward with Spacey (and I certainly do) it’s a little strange to pin on the costs on…

This movie is going to be utterly bonkers, as the two or three people who see it will report to us.

But, to be fair, you’re difficult to work with.

Yeah, this line confirms it too: “As she says repeatedly in the interview, she will not conceal the misdeeds of anyone and will encourage her friends to make things right.”

I think you’re telling on yourself.

Yes, though I think it’s OK for Nanjiani to have his own reaction to that, even if his reaction isn’t the usual one.  And I’m sure that, even for actors who enjoy the fact that millions of people think they look hot, there’s an element of awkwardness to be openly gazed at that way.

I read the article above and the source article. I’m not sure what you mean when you say “even before we’d seen a frame of the movie, it was apparent he was getting fed into a machine that’d chew him up.” Can you elaborate?

Paying in advance for delivery using a credit card has ruined all our sex lives.

Yeah, I think Oppenheimer may have been the last movie I’ve seen with nudity in it. My sense is that sex scenes are pretty rare. And we don’t see the thing that was common years ago, where there is nudity that truly seems to come out of nowhere, like in Swordfish.

Was it? All the main characters were naked the whole time!

And when we all debate whether it was intentional or not after the fact, we can all be Swift Boob Veterans for Truth.

No one, including Killer Mike, is suggesting the security guard assaulted him first. If a security guard prevented Killer Mike from going somewhere he was permitted to be, then he still isn’t justified in pushing her down. Resolve the disagreement another, legal way.

I don’t think we really want a rule where it’s legal to put your hands on a person and knock them to the ground. I think we can expect people not to shove each other.

I tend to think it’s good when people say true things, and don’t expect me to believe false things that insult my intelligence.

But what happened here is that the security guard (the alleged victim) initiated a citizen’s arrest, and the police are (according to them) bound then to effectuate that arrest.

I don’t know that hypotheticals like this do a lot of good, because we just fill the empty space with whatever our preexisting beliefs are. The answer to your question is that we don’t know, because that didn’t happen.

There is no You Can’t Arrest Me at a Fancy Party rule.  Arguing otherwise is following the same logic of Trump’s assertions about his criminal cases -- that he’s just too famous or important to be treated under the same rules as everybody else.

One strange, frustrating feature of the politics around the Iraq War is that a broad consensus has emerged that the war was a colossal mistake, without any corresponding acknowledgement that the people saying that in 2003 were right. I suspect that many of the people who were eager to vilify the Dixie Chicks in 2003…

The Grammys, it’s said, never honors its dead