Did Piven wreak havoc on the set of “Mr. Selfridge?” How on earth did he wangle such an ill-fitting role?

“Professor, I understand I didn’t turn in any work this semester, but I feel like I did!”

Premature Christmas in stores is all about the layaway.

Is anyone surprised someone who looks like that would have a million enemies? My old saw seems appropriate here: when men give up on ever making someone happy they will focus on making everyone sorry.

Even a depiction that fake is nauseating.

He may well be an actual abuser. Do you mean a verified abuser?

One wonders what The Beatless is doing here of all places.

Hulk didn’t want to spend the money of the lawsuit. A good samaritan stepped in.

Even when he tried to write about the divine Leonard Cohen couldn’t stop thinking about getting some. That’s a lot of why I relate to Leonard Cohen.

Just had one before I read this article. Dollar store bacon and off brand mayo on Sara Lee wheat bread (you can totally taste the cake flour and corn syrup). I don’t have a good job.

I was served just that sandwich on dynamite whole grain bread in Santa Cruz CA back in 1978. It was made for me by a surfer/tenor sax player/philosopher I jammed with. Once in a while I crave that sandwich, I make it, I enjoy it, and I have to spend about an hour talking down my dining companion, who is invariably…

When Robert Pattinson said he was allergic to vadge, I had to take with a block of salt his various views on women. If you’re allergic to bananas, I think you need to recuse yourself from this case.

Being in plain sight of hundreds of passers by might prevent a few of those drunk people from crapping on it.

Everything the Coen Brothers write is a revisionist version of some tired and customary trope. It’s pretty much the primary focus of all their screenplays. They reproduce genre tropes and change them just enough to make themselves laugh. Diversity casting sort of disables that mechanism, leading to decreased laughter.…

No character in the film is brought in for anything so much as for mockery. That’s the game, like a Friar’s Club roast. Let the Coen Brothers set white people up for mockery. People have been very uneasy about their minority casting because the tone of their comedy is depepndent on an almost unique brand of universal…

The success of satirical comedy depends on the often subtle alteration or exaggeration of a typically familiar cast of characters that is utterly obvious and expected. You can’t send up an insular world for laughs by representing that world as inclusive. Diversity suits drama and realism. There’s nothing funny about…