I think you’re misreading the comment that started this thread, but then again, Matthew somewhat misread Netflix’s response. They didn’t invoke free speech as tying their hands with regard to Chappelle (which is the context in which free speech is often invoked). They referred to Chappelle’s “artistic freedom” which…

Is there anything that you think that Netflix shouldn’t do in the interest of keeping their access to Saudi subscribers’ money? What if the Saudi government demands Netflix’s user data, in order to know which subscribers are searching for anti-Saudi government or pro-LGBTQ+ content? Should Netflix roll over and give…

Nobody has suggested that people shouldn’t ask for Netflix to remove the special. The free speech part is that once that happens Netflix has the right to say yes or no. Saying no might not be the right choice, but it’s a choice they can make. People sufficiently offended can cancel their Netflix subscriptions and…

I’d always assumed these were the practical clothes any chocolatier would wear to work. I’ve always expected that if I ever got to meet Jacques Torres, he’d be dressed like that. Are you suggesting this isn’t so?

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It hasn’t stopped them with every other Boomer favorite band that’s spent the last forty to fifty years putting out zombie albums and doing greatest hits tours. The ability to willfully overlook contradictory evidence is among the Baby Boom generation’s most developed and enduring skills!

Yeah, it’s kind of amazing that in a world of celebrity chefs with huge tv-ready personalities, Flay was still able to rise to the top without much personality and a really limited ability to emote.

I have friends who’ve met him who have similar positive experiences to yours. I think, though, that when it comes to “X celebrity is a dick” there is a ton of randomness, based on how and where you encounter them. Some celebs are great to the guy that fixes their car or takes their order at the deli counter, but are…

The premise would have to be stupider, “What if marrying someone who WASN’T more related to you than a first cousin was the thing that was illegal?”

Two things. First, while Silva does have a lot of TDK Joker in him, Skyfall also has a good bit of the plot of TDKR in it, with Bond quitting, being too old and physically shot to come back. So I just wonder if Nolan had a meeting with the Bond people before TDK...

Game of Thrones: Bond dies two thirds into the movie.

Win/win for fans, but not for Disney. If they do Rangers now, they guarantee themselves more time talking about Gina Carano, which they don’t want to do. That’s kind of the point of the article—they’re so unenthusiastic to continue that conversation that they’d rather not hire Lawless if doing so is going to lead them…

Thanks, I’d forgotten about the ref grabbing his arm, or rather, I misremembered it as happening during the Rocky/Drago fight, where the explanation would be “I guess that’s how they box in Russia?”

I’m sure they were less aware of concussion dangers and cumulative damage in the 70s and 80s, but I still remember a lot of fights stopped by the refs because the losing fighters weren’t effectively defending themselves, and fighters defending themselves is a weak point of the Rocky franchise. It’s dramatic that…

WILLIE CICCI from the GODFATHER: How ‘bout investing in condominiums? It’s safe.

Rocky clearly exists in an alternate universe where the Technical Knockout was never invented.

Was that the “hit me for real” incident where he got hit in the chest so hard, it bruised his heart?

The idea that there’s a 40 minute longer cut of Rocky IV—a film that needs repeated montages of scenes from the previous movies (and often, scenes from a fews minutes earlier in the movie we’re watching) to reach a feature-film length of 90 minutes—is mindblowing. I’m unsure how this movie could possibly get over 2…

Hot Fuzz was a revelation, because given how uncomfortable he looked with the Bond one-liners, I never would’ve suspected he had those comic chops. The first thing I saw that made me feel like I’d been shortchanged by Dalton’s performance as Bond was seeing him in The Lion in Winter, where Dalton—then in his very early…

Yeah, I was in Barcelona a few years back (sounds like maybe in the same area Shakira was in, which is a nature preserve built around a residential neighborhood) and my family and I took a late train back to the house where we were staying. This huge wild boar was posted at the entrance to the station, and the only…