This is the sort of lead that should have been "buried" in a lead-lined coffin.

Steven Spielberg said (without elaboration) that he would never work with her again after Hook. Like Streep, he strikes me as an extraordinarily difficult person to piss off, so you have to assume something serious happened there.

The fact that Traci Lords had to hide her real age to enter the porn industry strongly suggests that no, they did not have a thriving child pornography industry round the back. The two industries are quite separate, and law enforcement operates on this knowledge.

This is perhaps the slowest-gestating thread in history, but I needed to come back to it after finding this quote:

My impression of Linda Lovelace is that she was someone who was desperate to please people and be loved, and this made her take everything that little bit too far. When she was a porn star she had to be the wildest, most hypersexual porn star in the world, and when she was a feminist activist she had to similarly…

It's what classicists call a "pseudo-Aristotle" work - one attributed to him for commercial reasons (and, in this case, classing it up enough to escape the censors). There are a lot of these: because Aristotle wrote on so many subjects pretty much anything could be attributed to him, and it always helped sales to…

I like it when movies mix deep, relevant themes with pulpy nonsense, so I am hugely excited to see robo-suited Matt Damon just PUNCH CLASS INEQUALITY IN THE FACE UNTIL IT STOPS.

AAAARRGGH. FUCK, HARVEY. We know your early career as a director and screenwriter didn't pan out, but that's no reason to keep on taking it out on people who are more talented than you.

Hang on, what's going wrong with Snowpiercer? I'm still really excited for that.

At least, thanks to him leaving the cast and her character, she won't be required to do any love scenes with Sheen. Unless...

Oh please, please let Man On Dog be their next nominee. I suspect nothing so wonderful could ever happen, but how great would it be?

"Those fucking gay black assholes, why can't they have inner peace like me?"

Thank you. Expect everyone defending this to continue to insist "well, it's just white non-Muslim westerners who are offended!" over and over again, unfortunately, because that's what happens.

Yeah, I found the sheer clumsiness and didacticism of the lyrics more offensive than anything else. You're taking aim at one of the most delicate, interesting, hypocrisy-riddled debates in the world, Gaga; write something good.

As a friend put it, "It's amazing how quickly she's gone from fun 80s Madonna to insufferable current Madonna."

For old-school Doctor Who fans:

There there, it'll pass. I mean, I'm a Clint Eastwood fan, so I've had to work my way through these feelings for a long, long time.

Also, as a massive Western fan, it pisses me off when people try to make Westerns specifically for people who don't like Westerns! Look at the Coen brothers' True Grit - they made a film that satisfied Western fans, and was good enough to be enjoyed by people who don't have a special interest in the genre. Keep the…

She later criticised the corpse, saying its penis wasn't big enough and she's "seen deader".

Heinrich Himmler had a mystic teapot. He painted ancient runes on it to prevent his enemies from poisoning him. There is a museum somewhere in Germany which now houses Himmler's magic teapot.