Kanye West posted a swastika and got booted off Twitter

I’m reminded of George R. R. Martin being jaded by his time as a screenwriter in which he’d be paid handsomely for scripts that would never be filmed, and thus deciding to go back to writing novels, this time indulging himself in all the ways that would make scenes impractical to film. Now he’s been writing The Winds…

Something else in his case is commercials.

I was a teen as well, but an annoying enough one that I’d already written off (relatively) new music so that just compounded my dislike for the film.

Anne Hathaway has been mothering exceptionally hard lately

#3 is in keeping with #1, and hated by those who love #2. Since I view #2 as being a less scary dumbed down action movie take (as Cameron’s Rambo script was vs First Blood), I don’t mind Fincher killing off Cameron’s characters (just as Scott killed off all but one of his characters).

It is physically impossible to tell a joke in the AV Club comments section. When you attempt to click “Publish” your computer electrocutes you to death instead.

She doesn’t claim that the dispute was over the inclusion of a sex scene, but instead how it was to be done.

It sounds less cursed than Gilliam’s Don Quixote.

How did Cochrane “cherrypick”?

Shelley/Bride Of Frankenstein akin to Elsa Lanchester in the sequel The Bride Of Frankenstein

Hopefully not like Keith Moon semi-retired in a hole, to quote Spinal Tap’s DVD commentary.

Here’s someone arguing with them:

I wouldn’t say Jackie Brown was his best, but I think he got worse in reaction to the relatively poor reception that had. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is closer to what he was saying he aspired to back then.

Plagiarism isn’t that much of a death sentence in academia. Andrew Gelman writes about plagiarists who continue in high positions all the time.

The idea was to use masks when we didn’t have vaccines and though we didn’t know if they were effective it was worth a try when we didn’t have anything effective... but now we do have something effective, and we’ve seen that masks aren’t effective. Being ineffective at best is how medicine was for most of the…

The Cochrane Collaboration are generally considered the most reliable when it comes to systematic review of medical research, and that’s who just failed to find evidence that masks work on respiratory illnesses:

which is basically the same strategy that the previous presidential administration tried in 2020

And lo, the Gods of Irony decreed that John Crowley would drop out of directing the film, to be replaced by Nancy Myers.