Meeting food safety standards is more challenging than you might expect. I worked at a culinary school for many years, and when we’d have chefs in for a tryout for a teaching position, most of them were dropped from consideration because of food safety issues during their cooking demo. These were professional chefs…

That sounds pretty amazing.

I attended a Carlin show once in which he was trying out material—for some of it he had to refer to his notes. But this was during a tour, not a drop-in, and the new stuff wasn’t that funny and wasn’t delivered well—not surprising, considering he was reading it off notes.

It wasn’t a Louis CK show. No one went there to see him.

Agreed about Black Panther’s general excellence, but you’re dismissing some great films from the ‘90s. While BP is the superior of many nominated films (...and some winning...), I wouldn’t put it on the same level as Howards End, The Piano, Schindler’s List, or some others.

Yeah, I really don’t know much about the show, only that I was annoyed that it was renewed but Angel was canceled.

“They” as in the actresses?

Mary Pickford co-founded United Artists in 1919, but she’d been producing films for years before that—as had Lois Weber, who was maybe the first movie actress/producer in the U.S.

I think this modern era where this is this “correct” way to eat something is so fucking stupid.

Really a gorgeous performance and while I had the biggest crush on Julian Sands for years after, it’s Vyse mispronouncing Under A Loggia by Elena Laveesh* that has stuck with me for 25 years.

I was really impressed by it. I’d heard a lot about Jamie Foxx’s performance in it, but I thought Tom Cruise stole every scene he was in.

Insurrection was so bad I still haven’t bothered to see Nemesis.

Fascinating!

But if he didn’t take them down, then he isn’t really that sorry

I’ve eaten at a few of the places, too, and found that generally the items featured on the show are awesome, but when I try other things on the menu, I’ve been disappointed.

When I was a small child, I lived a block away from the library, so my mother took me there frequently. And every visit I would insist on hate-reading Babar, which repelled and fascinated me in equal measure.

Yeah, yeah, cars, money, whatever. I expect this guy to hand over the Centipede cabinet he cheated me out of in 1982.

Makes sense.

Ooops, I hadn’t seen your comment when I made one recommending O’Brien. She really was a wonderful actress—completely unaffected.

I actually thought she wasn’t that good in The Piano.