Very compassionate apart from the telling a girl that if she didn't have sex with him he'd have her executed, um, thing. And actually attempting to rape her at one point.

He is a pretty, pretty boy, isn't he.

One of my best friends got to do work experience in high school with a big teen girl magazine (she had good connections), and one day was at a photo shoot on a beach that was for a 'Bathing Suits For Every Size/Body' type article. The concept for the shoot was the models (and some male model accessories) having a…

I kind of feel like this in the street harassment articles that say "If you're female, you've experienced this."

One problem with Chris Columbus using (most of) the original Broadway cast in the 'Rent' movie was that... they're all 10 years older now, ergo the characters come off as 10 years older. You can kind of understand a bunch of 20 year olds living that boho life and raging about having to pay rent, but it came off kind…

She played Eponine in the 25th anniversary concert. YouTube videos should abound.

I loved her self summary. Also, ages ago didn't OKC publish a study they'd done of how people use their sites, and identify that young women (provided they were conventionally attractive anyway) who posted "quirky" photos like this one, rather than overtly sexyface ouu ouu pouty pouty ones, got more initial responses?…

I'm conventionally unattractive but because I have a 9 to 5 where I don't meet single people my age and all my friends are married/in long-term relationships and don't know many single people, I tend to rely on internet dating. I don't have a public profile photo - no photographs of me exist anywhere on the net that I…

I think this is a case of that shoulder photo still makes her seem reasonably physically attractive, as in she seems thin, in proportion, etc, so even though you can't see her face guys will message regardless figuring they might as well as she still seems kinda cute. This may have got different results if she'd used…

Having watched the trailer again, it looks like the movie is setting the barricade scenes at a "big movie version" of the Saint-Merri barricades (which still wasn't this big but whatever, it looks good) rather than the fictional setting of the book where it was a small street with a tavern in it. Some actors location…

I just posted about this - the main thing I came away with from this very exciting trailer is how fucking big the barricade is, and that they look like they tried to barricade the army out of a major city square. Urban warefare fail.

The musical still has to cut a fair bit out, but is definitely closer to the book than the Neeson movie was. It has Eponine and the students are more defined characters.

Agreed. The movie looks like it's going to be gorgeous. I do like Hathaway as an actress, and here you can see what Hugo described (in such long, long paragraphs) in his book, the notion of her essential spiritual beauty shining through the suffering and degradation.

SO EXCITED!!!! (Although 'Christmas 2012' probably means 'February-ish 2013' for Australia.)

Exactly. I'd argue that our culture has well and truly moved on from the "You can be recognised for being smart or recognised for being pretty - pick one, now" to "Whatever other qualities you have, you had better also be pretty and it had better be effortlessly so".

And I like how with the backlash and all it's the guy who's saying "Violence against women is bad" who's the asshole.

FWIW, apart from one incident a few years ago, the catcalls I get are "ugly cunt!" and "who let the dogs out?" and "why do hot girls always have an ugly friend?" So yeah, I feel a bit alone and weird when Jezebel posts these street harassment articles. Because it's all bad and it's all asshole men acting like they…

I keep hoping, but my hope is tempered by the thought of all the potential rage from the fan community. Because you know that no matter what they do and how awesomely they do it, there are certain factions of the fan community who will hate it regardless.

When I was little I used to sneak handfuls of frozen peas and/or sweetcorn from the freezer and eat them like candy.

Back when this movie was going to have been made a while ago, Dunst was who I thought of too. I've always thought she is a capable actress, just very director-dependent, and could really bring that "vivid heartbreaking beauty but is there anything going on beneath the surface?" quality.