Yes, I did indeed see her a few weeks into the run and she was probably more miscast than people have said. For starters you absolutely cannot have an amateur singer with an okay voice play the lead in a show that was literally written to showcase said lead’s vocal talents. It’s not that she wasn’t Barbra - no one was…

Or didn’t miss 40 shows in three months.  If you want the job, you have to actually do the job and she didn’t seem to really want to do the work.

From watching her on Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany is the best possible special effect this show could have gotten 

I’m mostly excited to see Portman flex not just her biceps, but her comedic skills (I always think she was one of SNL’s more memorable guests despite not taking many comedic roles in her career).

Siouxsie for the end credits was inspired as well.

And the fact that she owns the song free and clear and is getting all the profit makes it that much sweeter.

I told someone about this comment and you’ll never guess what they said!

You know, if she had donated this money anonymously instead of getting a professorship named after her this wouldn’t look quite so much like an exercise in performative, self-aggrandizing “atonement.”

This all sounds psychotic. As in, I have a brother who displays the same kind of behaviour. He no longer recognizes reality, or the fact that human beings have thier own wants & needs, independant of what he thinks they are.

*leans out window, shaking fist at sky*

Hey guys...we got Kaley Cuoco’s agent here!

Worse, they preferred it over a gentle Taiwanese man saying, “Two men who love each other shouldn’t be constrained by societal limitations or prejudice.” And then the Academy said, “Maybe they should?”

Please pass the hash.

so its just his Breaker High character all grown up?

“You’ve made a huge mistake.”

“The underpaid young writers cranking out the books I slap my name on are increasingly foreign to me and it’s making the facade harder and harder to maintain.”

I know a kid that watched that movie and died seven days later. 

Sentimental, middle-of-the-road movies have been winning Oscars since the award was invented.  There’s nothing new here. 

Well, ya know, marketing, but it also calls back to a tradition oddly specific to mystery (and mystery adjacent) stories of “nonsensical sequel titles to connect it to the first one”. See also The Pink Panther (which is the name of the diamond in the first movie) and The Thin Man (which refers to the murder victim in…

Electric Stab-a-loo?