OH COME ON. the chance that these ‘self-described (and completely anonymous) Sanders supporters’ aren’t paid DNC hacks is fucking zero.

This is a stitch-up. They’ve moved off Biden as a clear no-hoper and now they’re grooming Warren so that means another ludicrous frame job for Sanders.

No names = not Sanders supporters…

Great. Now I have to face the fact that the costume was a real thing, even for one day.

The posited adaptation will be a joint US-British venture, so it will be as flash-looking as ‘Game of Thrones’ and with all your favorite British talent. Do not worry, there will be no Zack Efron as Steerpike.

Celia Imrie in a fat suit was one of the problems. Gertrude isn’t fat. Imrie would have been a brilliant Irma, though Fiona Shaw would have been good if she hadn’t been directed as a moronic flirt.Good as he was, Richardson was too old to be Sepulchrave. Richard Griffiths looked too small to be Swelter. Flay’s knees…

The budget of the BBC version wasn’t the problem. The problem was the tone: it was pitched as a children’s series in the same after-dinner Sunday slot as ‘The Chronicles of Narnia.’. Instead of a Gormenghast that combined shattered inter-war expressionism with surrealist Gothic, we got a fairy-tale kingdom. Good…

‘The Shape of Water’ is a bit of fluff: it gestures towards bigotry, cruelty, misogyny, racism, homophobia and politics but it’s just a fairy tale: nothing about it either lingers or haunts and it ends up offering escapism and security. It is not a great film: ‘Hellboy 2' was more visually interesting and it does not…

Pryor’s widow has confirmed that Brando and Pryor slept together, though she doesn’t make it sound very romantic. Anyhoo: they were both talented bisexuals with strong libidos.

You don’t hear about Pryor’s open bisexuality in the black community much, considering he’s hands down the greatest black comic who ever lived.

Fat white dudes know from their spoiled childhoods that kicking, whining and screaming gets them everything they want in life.

This is also about as effective an advertisement for more boycotts of Israel and its goods and services, as I can think of.

Toxic fandom (to differentiate it from a harmless preoccupation with an artist you admire) feels a lot like a religious cult built along slightly ridiculous lines. The followers are characterized by extremely limited self-esteem, all of which they invest in a focus outside themselves, a sort of emotional horcrux (ha…

Gay men have been using this term since the early 1970s to describe ‘kept boys’ who leech off of rich older gay men.

It’s perfectly clear that it originally meant hustler or manwhore.