I think it’s the latter. I don’t think the ending is as pat as some of the rest of the narrative is; the movie is more interesting in that these two tendencies (conventional love story/character study of Ned Kynaston) are constantly pulling against each other. I don’t find the love story between them all that…

I may hate them more than Trump supporters. Shall we start a list?

“I don’t know why you’re making this about Emanuel”

I think the difference is that he’s not just threatening the politicians. He’s threatening the PEOPLE of that state, in public. It’s pretty terrifying stuff.

The film Kate refers to the open with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes is Stage Beauty (2004), and I think it’s underrated also. Though it’s quirky, incomplete, and blindingly anachronistic (the film suggests that the introduction of female actors instantly turned everyone onto “naturalistic” acting), I refer my students…

“Clinton lost- get over it! It’s that simple!”

“Today the president of the United States accidentally strolled into a giant wood chipper” is one of the few headlines absurd enough to sum up an end to this administration.

I was in the room when Garfield was being interviewed and to see everything he said taken in a very strange out of context way is incredibly bizarre. He said those things, but his tone and the context of the interview matters. For example, he said on his only days off he’s become obsessed with having RuPaul parties.…

Oh you wait. When this shit starts really blowing up Fox and right media et al will dump Trump and Co. and begin salvaging the rest of the GOP. There will be plenty of think pieces about it being the fault of Hilary and the DNC for not running more competent campaigns. Why didn’t Obama use his last days to stop the…

You would prefer a war with Russia?

I don’t think he and a lot of his nationalist supporters realize how much this shit weakens our country. They want Europe to take more responsibility and pay more for NATO but they think everything else will stay the same. Cutting foreign aid and military support means that other countries are going to start setting…

It was classified intelligence from a partner source, an allied nation that would have to approve the declassification of the info because their agents in place would be at risk of serious harm if the info got out. And of course Trump didn’t declassify the intel, he babbled pridefully to his Russian handlers. …

My recently deceased grandmother has risen from her grave and is begging me to tell all of you that THE ONLY LEGITIMATE HERCULE POIROT IS DAVID SUCHET, ALL OTHERS ARE IMPOSTERS AND SHOULD SEE THEMSELVES OUT PROMPTLY.

I really, really wanted to like her special but I gave up after 10 minutes or so. It was exclusively ‘ooh a woman talking about sex *how unladylike*’. I know she is capable of social commentary - her show is full of it - but 10 minutes in, she hadn’t made any interesting points so I gave up. It was really…