It's his divorce lawyer. He's not representing him in a criminal matter, one would hope.

Can't he just say nothing?! He's his divorce lawyer. Surely he's within his rights to say "no comment" to questions about whether a family law client may or may not be a murdered. Actually, it seems like "no comment" is the best thing to say.

But was Mitchell talking about the financial crisis (as I said) or was he talking about a single transaction? I can't find it now, for some reason.

David Mitchell does this great bit on UK tv about how the financial crisis wasn’t actually a crisis. Nothing was destroyed, all the pigs in Europe didn’t die, there was no shortage of actual commodities. It was just, in his words, “assholes being assholes” and life should proceed okay.

FrankieBooLovesYou is confused by the conversation. S/He can’t follow it because we’re not talking about Keira Knightley anymore. Poor thing must be absolutely lost at a dinner party, huh?

Actually, do you know what I’d prefer to his extradition and time spent in jail? I’d just love it for people stop pretending that he’s a fucking genius. He makes movies. At best, he makes serviceable movies but for the most part, he makes shitty movies. I’ve only seen Chinatown (the first, but not the last, movie to…

Thank you for reminding us all just what level of shitheel we’re dealing with here.

Well, I knew Hansard from The Commitments and his band, The Frames, so I knew how old he was. I thought she looked very young. Apparently, she was 17 yrs old or something.

Yeah. Apparently, they didn't start dating until she was 18 yrs old but, as you say, ick. He met her because he was friends with her father?! I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I didn’t like Once. I thought it was weird that the Glen Hansard character was nearly 40 yrs old and afraid to leave home/strike out while the female character was so young and yet wise, a mother, separated from her partner, etc. Then I read that the original plan was to have a young Cillian Murphy in the lead and…

Right? We can't all hire enough people to make sure we're never alone with "creepy-boss" but I'm sure we'd all like to.

Interesting that he's got his arm around her shoulders though. He loves Levine but gets touchy-feely with Knightley. Right.

Perhaps because you're more interested in defending men than examining violence. More power to you. Men need all the help they can get. It's not like they hold the majority of the power and wealth in the world. You're doing god's work. Don't let me stop you.

The vast majority of men may not be violent but the vast majority of violent offenders are men. Is that too difficult a concept for you to understand or are you willfully misunderstanding my comments? In either case, what I said stands, it was said in response to another comment, and you are tiresome.

Do you have any straw left over from that strawman argument you just built? My horse needs clean bedding.

Thanks for that link.

If it’s any consolation, more men than women are murdered by men every year. Men are victims too. It’s not a question of who is the victim but rather who is the offender. Men are far more likely to be violent criminals than women. It’s not an equality that women want to achieve unless we do it by getting men to offend…

No worries. I googled “Ernie Jones” because I thought, shit, I thought that was Ernie Hudson. Have you seen him in Grace and Frankie? He’s Frankie’s yam man.

I actually hated Bill Murray’s character in GB. Even at 16 yrs old, I rolled my eyes at Sigourney Weaver’s character falling for him. As-fucking-if. He was a creep.

Ernie Hudson. Not Ernie Jones (I assume you switched his and Jones’s names).