Urg — With all due respect, that’s the grimmest euphemism I’ve heard all day: embarking on a career of power means “learning about the complexities involved” in apartheid?

You might be confusing the word “impressive” with “terrifying”

We lament the divided nature of our country, but, really, what “middle ground” are we hoping to find? It’s a myth.

No, it isn’t.

It’s not the “divided nature” of our country we lament. It’s the stupidity, as the show reminds us. 

I think they’re both marvelous morality tales, and I don’t see hypocrisy in either.

I take it you know that Boiler Room was one of the essential inspirations for the director of WOWS, who not only paid homage to it but personally sponsored Ben Younger’s return to filmmaking.

I had no idea just how true that is until a recent relationship via which I became close friends with a bunch of (very well respected) bold faced entertainment names. They all deeply envy the stability of their friends in finance and law, they’re often surprisingly naive financially, they lease and never buy, etc. Of…

Kind of like a depressive Mozart.

Caruso, David (Stephen), iii—iv, 179, 181, 196—197

Harlem Nights is one of those puzzling movies that should be so much better than it actually is. It’s sort of painful to watch, because you can’t help but enter analysis mode.

The Cotton Club is like that, too, and both Coppola and Murphy say the same thing, that the good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor.

One…

Particularly punk rockers.

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I’m going to be using #CaucasianConsternation as much as possible from now on. Not just online. In conversation. Public addresses. Recipes. Reports.

But there will always be, always have been, stupid douchebag asshats, no? In our era, they happen to be those big doofi, sinewy (or not!) musculature apprehended by tight polos — collars of course popped — and the whole gently feathered with a bodman olfactible drawn by a pump up a siphon tube through a nozzle to…

Genuine curiosity: why do you feel Wolf of Wall Street is a guide, not cautionary? I found it trenchant and impartial. It never idealizes its subject. It looks unblinking at the tragedy of Belfort’s victims — the suicide is presented as an afterthought, precisely the mindset of a sociopath — and it eschews…

Yep. “Germany will never forgive the Jews for Dachau.”

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Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Sylvia Plath, Diane Arbus, Selena, Dorothy Stratten, Frances Farmer, Anne Sexton, Amy Winehouse, Daul Kim, Simone Battle, Amy Winehouse, Nicole DeHuff, Divya Bahri, Christina Grimmie, Jiah Khan, Minnie Riperton, Grace Kelly, Florence Ballard, Billie Holiday, Lorraine Hansberry, Carrie…

We always used to debate that after some incompetent headbutting chicks down at the clubhouse. Bad hard? Or hard bad?

Yeah. It helps the viewer to empathize

I know what you mean. I found mãe galinha really tiring for the longest time.

I did go pretty baroque (a mirror move) — blame Darconville’s Cat, which I’m rereading.

Garraty and Gay give Nietzsche a single sentence at the end of the Columbia History of the World: “Nietzsche was influential in his elitism and pessimism.” I think I tend to 10% of your one out of ten.

No, I liked your comment and was defending its style.