Wait, it’s a musical?

I was recently in an acting workshop where one of the exercises was to simply stand in front of the group with a neutral expression. In most cases, the first attempt was not read by the group as neutral but at least mildly antagonistic. Point is, people often, when they have no particular expression on their face,…

why are we reading into this

Right. She had no clue that there was a joke coming her way and she was simply existing going about her life.

“...as her level of fame is an essentially unprecedented phenomenon that the public is still figuring out how to handle.”

I’m not particularly a Swift fan (to put mildly and politely) but somehow found myself reading that NYTimes piece. It was horrifying and said way more about toxic fanbases than Swift herself. I also noted that it was the same writer who accused Harry Styles of queerbaiting. I can’t believe it was given that level of…

well my point was that comparing the two doesn’t make any sense.

If he wants a shot at a career again he needs to just admit it, do his time (or whatever the sentence ends up being), go to inpatient therapy, and conspicuously take his L.  Continuing to deny it is not going to help him. His handlers aren’t doing him any favors with this.

If he really got 10 days notice, he should have said no. What good is a high-profile gig like hosting the Golden Globes if you know you don’t have time to prepare? Sure, it’s the biggest audience you’ve ever had, but most of them are now saying “that guy I never heard of really sucks!”

Also, the idea of “an industry plant is it’s somebody the industry hand picks to be successful from day one” is purely bring-a-horse-to-water in terms of audience acceptance, because there’s endless actors, actresses, and comics who got similar pushes and evaporated into career nothingness.

If you’re talking about two big, tentpole movies that are expected to appeal to a broad cross-section of moviegoers, it can make some sense to think of them as being in competition with each other. But a movie like Night Swim is really only in competition with its own budget. Horror movies thrive by being…

The Derivative Arts Emmys.

Is there any type of comedy that’s funny when you try telling people about it?

I’ve come to the realisation that ITYSL is the type of comedy that just isn’t funny when you try telling people about it. After seeing so many people (including on here) go on about how funny it is, despite not *sounding* funny when people talk about it, I gave it a go.

It feels like there’s some confusion over the nature of the comments. Williams isn’t saying that Hart doesn’t deserve his fame or whatever, his point is that Hart *as a standup* got to his current position *as a standup* because of work he did *as an actor*. His complaint is that Kevin Hart didn’t do the standup comic…

Williams’ comments also reek of jealousy.  He clearly thinks he’s more talented and hard-working than Hart (maybe correctly), but Hollywood doesn’t work that way.

What are the credentials required to get a small part on an unsuccessful sitcom like Undeclared? Do you need your masters in TV comedy, or will casting directors accept just a bachelor of arts?

How did you get the impression that he doesn’t want his audience to have an opinion about his films?

I think most people saw Crash as obnoxiously heavy-handed and pandering well before it was nominated for any awards, a perspective compounded by its BP win.

I never understood what was so important about people fucking cars or whatever the hell the point of that movie was