TBH, I kinda avoid going there because there’s enough gross about the movie and it feels rude to Farrow to imagine harassment she might have endured. But that’s why I don’t watch the X-Men movies anymore, there are enough stories about how Singer used those movies to take advantage of young men to make those movies…

For me that’s the issue with “separating the art from the artist.” For example, I used to love Rosemary’s Baby but once I understood why Polanski was a fugitive, the movie became creepy for the wrong reasons. I used to like Neil LaButte’s work because I thought movies like In the Company of Men and Nurse Betty were…

For me, Lauer is the least surprising one considering NBC brass spent years insisting he was the star that The Today Show would collapse without, even though there was enough evidence at the time he was dragging the show down. He got treated like such a special snowflake when, at best, all he could offer was…

I have to wonder if this is like the porn director who thought he could send Jezebel the tapes and look better, not realizing how much worse he’d seem in context.

TBH, I’m not sure if there are many comedians who could create shows as great as Better Things or Baskets* but why not let people like Nahnatchka Kahn or Victor Fresco a chance to have more than one show on TV at a time?

I’d guess his path is a little different, if only because he’s got solid record behind-the-scenes. I’m guessing in a year, we’ll find out he’s continued to write for Better Things and Pamela Adlon will defend him saying he knows the characters very well, she’s warned him about what will happen if she hears any rumors…

I feel like this was what Trump was getting at the other week when he complained that investigators aren’t looking at “the other side” as if criminal courts could be expected to acquit if you can throw accusations against someone else (someone you can’t inform on). If in my imagination Hillary Clinton committed worse…

I agree with the general sentiment but let’s be careful about denigrating a political career. Declaring elected jobs part time and making them pay less than a living wage has been a tactic to make sure the only people who run for office are people who can afford for politics to be their side job (one that funnels…

A friend is a teacher in what sounds like a miserable part of the country and the parents expect her not just to be a babysitter but to do all the work they’re not willing to do. She’ll tell them about their child falling behind in a subject and the attitude she gets is “That’s your job, not mine.” I know poorer…

I first heard of her when she was writing liberal opinion pieces for Fox News, which got lots of “see even Fox published...” takes. The pieces I remember discussed her experience with the health care industry while working as a freelancer with a same-sex partner.

As a kid I learned a mix of ketchup and mayonaise was Thousand Island dressing, I suspect midcentury chefs and home economists had very specific debates about the difference between Russian Dressing, French Dressing and Thousand Island Dressing.

It’s both. Part of the problem with Azaria voicing Apu is that there weren’t any South Asian staffers that might have said the character were problematic. Not only does this mean no one who helped create the character based it on real South Asian experiences, it means South Asian artists continued to be shut out of…

Because he’s sure it’s the kids who are wrong.

They managed to make Smithers less cringe-inducing by introducing some more nuanced (relatively) gay characters who rarely appear. It wouldn’t have been a major effort to add a few minor South Asian characters.

I mean, this is the show that decided not to keep someone who won an Emmy for the show because one of the guys was going through a divorce and decided he didn’t want to work with any women in the writers’ room.

It occurs to me that Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a good comparison. Japanese-Americans have a hard time watching that movie once they reach Rooney’s performance and the movie’s white fans are all “Can’t you overlook the racism? It’s such a good film.”

The Simpsons may be full of broad stereotypes but for every Chief Wiggum there are dozens 0f competent police chiefs on TV, for every Fat Tony there are plenty of nuanced Italian-American characters to be found. Heck, even with Smithers, TV has plenty of gay male characters who aren’t obsessive creeps.

From comments in previous Jez theads, I understand Heigl was sexually harassed when she was an underage actor on Roswell which would go far in explaining why her mom is very protective and “bothersome” to deal with.

I’ve seen rumors on comment threads about fans experiencing her being high maintenance, but anything that’s been printed is a long wind of a gossip writer telling the reader how to feel before telling them what Heigl actually did. The vast majority of gossip media reporting I’ve seen about the Emmy thing spent several…

It was announced a year and a half ago but it sounds like it’s still in development: