He seems to be implying that her weight was somehow a “choice” and not part of her role in the movie. I guess he thought pointing out an “unhealthy” body image from a 35-year-old movie was going to win him “woke” point.

You can almost hear him thinking “the gals are all gonna be on my side on this one. We may have to wait for the applause to die down for her to answer. I’m so woke”

As the son of a mother who was a woman and now is deceased, do you find the price of theater concessions puts the price of popcorn out of reach for many people?

I’m so glad he clarified that he was the father of a daughter who was concerned about body image. That changes everything! Plus he’s not the one concerned about body image, guys! It’s his daughter. That’s his inoculation against being called a sexist perv.

mmm idk. I think there is probably a lot more to this story than just “a dumb ol’ teenager ran away ahah but he was just chillin’ it’s all good now!” Reading between the lines, it sounds like home life was a bad situation.

Those snakes wouldn’t break ranks if one of their number was revealed to be Cthulhu. Party over country, party over everything.

I think he’s trying to use some kind of time warp or wormhole to excuse himself: he expects us to believe that this textbook example of sexual harassment wasn’t REALLY sexual harassment. It was just a “personality dispute” that had nothing to do with our horrible oversensitive modern feminazi criteria for sexual…

I agree that’s a good message in general, and it’s valid to remind people that they have broader choices than the ones that appear to be set out for them. I’m just not totally sure that’s what I would have focused on for a high school graduation speech. Perhaps she just framed it badly.

She’s wonderful as a celebrity and in person, but every time I hear about her I think back to when she spoke at my brother’s high school graduation (Isabella’s daughter was in the same year) and basically rambled on about she never even finished high school and she went on to become super famous and life was fantastic.

Damn! No accounting for taste I guess :)

i learned saying NO to invites when i was 28. its my favey word.

Nope, she’s speaking generally in this quote. She didn’t say “I don’t think destroying HIS life because HE made a sin.” She generalized using “they.”

As the child of two superstars, Isabella Rossellini could have been subsumed into her parents’ mythology and never found her own path. Yet she has always been possessed of such a unique capacity for beauty, presence, knowledge in ways that contravene conventional culture. I loved reading this. She is as profound as…

She’s ageless.

Again, and I don’t know why I have to reiterate this so many times: the joke seems to be about celebrity conspiracy theories and how they seek very unlikely answers to very basic questions, rather than actually being about Lea Michele or Illiteracy.

I guess I just don’t see her as the target of the joke. I mean I don’t think it really has anything to do with her, she seems incidental to the actual meat of it, which is the cartoonish stretch of trying to ‘prove’ it.

The joke is, as I understand it, that it’s actually an absurd and outlandish idea because (like you said) it’s way more likely that she just isn’t trained in/comfortable with/good at improvisation. I think it’s taking a the piss out of people who believe that Miley Cyrus is actually dead and didn’t just get work done…