I really hope it isn't. She was terrific.

And a version of the Master who was almost totally removed from the Pertwee-era version of the character, too. They retrofitted him into another of that era's cavern-dwelling twisted revengers (a la Sutekh, Magnus Greel, Taren Capel) and gave him the backstory of a wasted regenerative cycle that's driven him ever…

She also played the lead role in Kenneth Lonergan's film Margaret, which I am morally obliged to keep promoting every time I get the opportunity. Because it's great, and not watched enough.

Although I love that reading of the Batman universe, I also think it's such an orthodoxy by now that you could do something fresh and interesting just by disregarding it.

Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I was just happy to see it was over 60%. The British establishment isn't too popular now for a variety of good reasons, and hard-rightists are the only people who've noticed there's an open door there. That, coupled with British right-wing think-tanks, journalists and politicians tending…

Some days when I'm depressed and I'm looking at the morning papers, I feel like cages for immigrants at every railway station are twenty years away, if that.

God, how I hate the "what do you have to hide?" question. People don't have to be criminals to need privacy; privacy is an essential way of coping with having a public life. It's psychologically helpful to have a place in your life where you don't have to worry about putting on a social facade.

You can detest someone and still not want misinformation spread about them. Baseless fearmongering is not a contribution to the war effort.

THANKS COCKBLOCK OBAMA

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There was a blind item revealed on CDaN that said Keira was overheard laughing with her friends about how utterly desperate Levine was to fuck her on set. Normally I think CDaN's little more than Hollywood fanfic, but that one... I'll allow it.

I was going to say! That Adam Levine is sexy to me; the Adam Levine we have now is a dispenser of involuntary shudders.

This isn't advancing the conversation one bit, but I cannot even consider the concept of a sexy doctor without thinking of this masterpiece by Joe Cornish (yes, the Attack the Block director):

I always love that argument. It's like when they say Lincoln was a Republican. "Yes, that is true, he was a good man. What have you done within the last 150 years?"

That's not what he said at all. It's what you want to say now, but you're too chickenshit to own it.

It's almost a kind of reverse genius. I'm not sure she could have more comprehensively pissed off the young, liberal, feminist fanbase she initially courted if she was actively trying to become unpopular.

Er, none of the examples in the original post fit that definition. A drawing of Neil Gaiman or some words about Mickey Cohen are just as 'real' as an actor playing Nikola Tesla.

...it's like you have no understanding of what the words "what if" mean. I've never experienced this scale of dumbassery before.

Surprised nobody's mentioned Nikola Tesla in The Prestige yet. I know there's a veritable army of Tesla cameos in fiction, but that one's special, because Bowie. Also

"...she was a fitness instructor... she is in no way fit..." - you, just then.