For those who don’t know, Illeana’s grandfather was the A-List movie star Melvyn Douglas; over a 50 year career, leading man to Garbo, Dietrich and Crawford and a two time Oscar winner (1964 and 1980). His wife, Illeana’s grandmother was Helen Gahagan Douglas, a three term US Congresswoman from California.

Roman Farrow has indeed been doing some great work, which I’m sure makes his family incredibly proud of him, particularly as it both implicitly and explicitly honors his sister’s truth. But when we talk about the media’s watershed moment against high-powered sexual predators, let’s please make an effort to always…

The Catholic Church is rotten through and through. That’s why the whole “cool pope” thing perturbs me. It’s just putting a friendly face on the same old viciousness and corruption. He comes to Ireland next month and I’ll be amazed if he apologises for the immense damage they caused.

Kashmir - this is a great article.

I know that feeling. My mom is 9 years older than my dad and they had me late in their lives. My dad was 30 and my mom 39 when I came along.

Patriarchy: “We encourage, even require, that women have as many babies as possible.”

I can respect the hustle as well. If they couldn’t tell the difference between real teen writing and fake teen writing, then did it really matter if she was actually 32?

This. Is. Awesome. 

i divorced my 2nd husband after 25 years just last year. we didn’t have kids, so we weren’t hanging on for that reason. in fact we were having a blast together up until the last 2 years when he began his mid life crisis. he became unbearable so i tossed him out. i’m really content to be single again and am dating…

Who the hell cast that? Mr. Gill was a big rough looking masculine person that insisted on be referred to as male, and they what? Cast a 110lb super effeminate looking woman to play him? He demanded to be called Mister. He obviously valued his masculinity. What are they gonna do? Slap a mustache on her? Jesus. Take a…

No he was trans. Go read about him.

Her response pretty much epitomizes The Problem, I think. Which is that for all these Hollywood snobs play at humanizing “esoteric” people and individuals, deep down they could not give a fuck less about the struggles of whomever they are portraying. It’s 100% about trying to get that Oscar, and the lives and…

exactly and to her, somewhat, defense, that movie came out in, I think, 2005. We have come a long way in awareness since then. Huffman did the work and paid attention to improve her knowledge, so Scarlett has no excuse. Doesn’t help that the two other examples she cited are 1) a man who is now known for abusing trans…

Not every role is for every actor and this is pretty widely acknowledged and not all that controversial, unless you want to be purposefully obtuse about it. Selma wouldn’t really have been the same movie with Brad Pitt playing MLK now would it? I, Tonya woulda been kinda weird with Leonardo Dicaprio playing Tonya…

“Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps for comment.”

Just because he got rewarded by Hollywood doesn’t mean his role was any less controversial or wrong. Since when have these big Hollywood production companies and these circle jerk awards committees really reflected public opinion?

Eddie Redmayne got a LOT of criticism for that movie.

And anyone who tries to pull the “movies are expensive; they need a big name” bs is just an enabler of bad people and Hollywood would still be prevelant with black and yellow face if this bs idea was actually valid and made sense.

Meanwhile Ed Skrien had one of the best responses not long ago https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/ed-skrein-exits-hellboy-reboot-whitewashing-outcry-1033431

ALSO she hasn’t to know that she’s going to get called out for this shit. Maybe she enjoys appearing affronted in the face of criticism