Thank you. I’m not from the Midwest, but my mom makes this dish for every Thanksgiving (with loads of toasted almonds), and I think it’s great comfort food. 

To each their own, but this never quite worked for me personally. I blame the combination of horniness and loneliness (hornliness?) for a terrible on-again-off-again relationship in my 20's. I was only able to break the cycle by moving to a different continent. 

“It’s not wrong, but Janet is nonetheless cast in Neil’s shadow (she listens to radio transmissions of her husband’s trip to space at home) and she is afforded no domestic equivalent to Neil’s moon walk.” 

I agree with this assessment, particularly its love for Michael Keaton.

I am a 42-year-0ld English major who has never read it. I read about 30 novels on average per year and have made an effort to steadily work my way through most literally classics (interspersed with contemporary fun reading). Still, for very few of us, there will almost be more classics that we haven’t read than we…

I guess the punchline is that a 22-year-old male actor hadn’t previously read Little Women? I mean, it’s a classic and all, but why does that fact merit any commentary? I’m guessing that 99%+ of American men haven’t read it and that the percentage of women isn’t much better. 

Hitchcock and Scully are comedy gold. They are used in perfectly limited proportions and their bits never fail to to be funny.

I saw Body Count, Metallica, and Guns N’ Roses in the Oakland Coliseum in 1992 as a 14-year-old. It was my first concert. I remember that at some point during Body Count’s set, there were at least six nasty fist fights going on around me. There were a few fights during Metallica’s set but it was half as violent as…

My understanding is that the Beatles’s breakup, like nearly every breakup of people or bands, was the product of a great number of factors each exponentially bigger than any part conceivably played by Yoko. But the judgmental masses prefer simplicity and scapegoating over complexity and truth.

Anyhow, I’ve been on a…

Side note: Late 90's/early 00's Julia Stiles owned it. 10/10

I dunno. Being afraid of something, trying it, and discovering it’s actually fun is one of life’s great joys. Like jumping off a high-dive for the first time as a child. 

I get your point. I don’t have a particular problem with flat or MPDG characters except when they detract from my experience as a reader/watcher—e.g., where I become distracted from what’s happening by a particular character’s artifice. To be sure, romcoms are rife with unbelievable characters and premises, so it’s a…

I recently read the book, which I agree is good, low-calorie fun (“a beach read.”). I thought the Nick Young character was fairly flat in the book and am curious to see if they give him more depth in the movie. Maybe he’s the crazy rich Asian male version of the manic pixie dream girl?

Yeah, the stadium is a total dump. It’s a shame, because I remember going to games as a kid when you could see the East Bay hills over the bleachers instead of a wall of concrete. (Thanks, Al Davis.) The location is also nice for both BART access and great for tailgating. 

I hate the way they play soccer, but the Italians really own the “azzuri” uniforms.

Mbappe is great, but I thought Eden Hazard was both the best and the most exciting player today.

Right? And Japan didn’t choke in that game. Belgium’s three goals were all well earned and were good to spectacular. Between the Belgium and the Senegal games, Japan produced two of the tournament’s most entertaining games.

Douchebag Warriors fan here. FWIW, McGee was great for us. He played well and was popular among his teammates. I’m sad to see him go but hope he does well in LA.

Right? Love Fool got a lot of play during that time.

As I recall, Romeo + Juliet was pretty bad . . . with, among other things, lots of young actors mumbling their through Shakespeare. But that fish tank scene was stunning. Rewatching it now, it’s not hard to see how DiCaprio shot to stardom in the mid-90's.