“I live in the bay area and people speak about it like we’re barely holding it together through all the crime;”

Um, Jack Martin looks just like Cole Sprouse. She certainly has a type... 

Not being funny has not stopped people from hosting before!!!!

Coming from an old fart in her forties, this shit is tedious. Yes, they all starve themselves. The are generally attractive people who have plastic surgeons, stylists, estheticians, trainers, and chefs. And they also starve themselves. It’s not healthy, but they are going to keep doing it and claim that they aren’t. La…

I can imagine SNL could be especially difficult if you suffer from anxiety so this is more than fair enough but for something not live, Chris Evans has shown great talent for comedy in undoubtedly his greatest role, that will he will likely never surpass. I of course refer to Not Another Teen Movie.

I’m not invested in this at all, and agree that we should all mind our fucking business when it comes to other people’s health, but I do want to point out that what she said is EXACTLY what people with an ED say when someone voices concern about them.

Historically speaking, the concept of the theater audience being silent non-participants in the play is relatively new. Who among us has not read the rousing accounts of barely literate Englishmen singing along to "" I Shalt Always Love Thou" during performances at the Globe Theater? 

Doing the Traffic Altercation sketch live - and nailing it - was the best moment of the night. And holy shit Chloe Fineman’s hand gestures were fucking hilarious.

The only thing it has in common is the mockumentary filming. It’s not a retread, it’s just a similar set up. It stands on its own merits. You don’t have to like it for whatever reason you feel. No product is for everyone. Just don’t pull that tired “Are they going to accuse me of being racist” card. It’s boring and…

You know, as a longtime, perpetually-recovering disordered eater, I’m not mad about it. I’m glad she said it and I’m bummed she walked it back (sure, Gwyneth, I’m sure you eat tons of “fries or whatever.”).

Yup. If Gwyneth admitted she starved herself to conform to the pressures of first Hollywood and then the Wellness World, I’d like her a lot more than I do. But she doesn’t. She tells a lot of bullshit lies about mindfulness and the myriad benefits of bone broth. It’s not the starvation that’s offensive, it’s the…

I like that one with Ethan Hawke holding a dead Robert DeNiro on the NY subway.

A quick BDSM scene, complete with whips and chains, foregrounds Pip’s time with Havisham, turning the feminist subtext of Dickens into text. ... Havisham and Estella treat him as their boy toy, with responsibilities including hide and seek, dance lessons, and forcing him to lose his virginity to a sex-positive member…

I think Austen really sinks in when you become a sarcastic tween like I did. The dry humor of Austen’s narrative voice was so relatable to me!

The change to Conrad and Kipling (and the addition of Jane Austen) is particularly notable, since it slightly shifts Matilda’s characterization. The original lists of authors indicates not only an interest in adventure and in imagining herself somewhere else, but it is also transgressive for the gender norms of her…

100% this. Kids are mean. The world is mean and ugly sometimes. Sanitizing children’s literature so they only see appropriate and correct takes leaves kids feeling awful alone in dealing with that. This is why the old Grimm’s fairy tales were so powerful. Kids get someone being put in an oven or having their feet cut…

I will add that this will inevitably lead to a scrubbed up and idealized vision of the past. I often think so many white Gen Xers are so vulnerable to right wing propaganda because we were fed a steady diet of 1950s nostalgia that was created in the 1970s. No mention that Mrs. C. on Happy Days couldn’t get a credit…

True, but one difference is that the Hardy Boys were always corporate works for hire ghostwritten for years by a man who reportedly hated the characters and then by a succession of hacks, whereas Dahl’s works were the creation of a singular author and reflect his unique personality.

I understand the desire to update these stories so a new generation of kids aren’t reading about harmful stereotypes, but editing a dead author’s work is extremely gross and sets a terrible precedent. I don’t need “updated language” when I read an older book. Erasing the sins of the past is also a good way to avoid…

are you really saying that Beyoncé, coming where she came from, is less privileged and more queer than Harry Styles? And wrote a discourse about it attacking him just because you like Beyoncé better?