Well, unless new allegations come up and this turns out to be a smokescreen (I hope not), I’m gonna take it at face value and say good for him for owning up to everything. It was still shitty of him that he objectified women in the workplace (or anywhere), but there was no deflecting, spinning or anything in his…

I am always surprised that never gets mentioned in the lists of awful things about the movie. I was forced to watch this movie in a college class and that is the part I remember bothering me the most.

This continues to be practically the only feature on today's AV Club which would fit in with the AV Club of ten to fifteen years ago. 

Films have been banned for being too racist and not racist enough. D.W. Griffith’s pioneering The Birth Of A Nation is now considered an important piece of film history on technical merits (it’s widely considered the first full-length motion picture, and Griffith effectively invented the close-up and fade-out)

Speaking of Pheidippides, one thing that always blows my mind about the marathon is that somebody, at some point, said, “hey, remember that time a guy ran and ran and ran and then just dropped dead? Let’s try and do that sometime!”

“The 1904 Olympic Marathon was the worst race ever run”

Plus, Canada’s two borders away from Mexico!

If only that were true.

“After the first season, the New Jersey Generals franchise was bought by a man who once lost a billion dollars running a casino.”

The NBA up until 1965 allowed “territorial draft picks”—a team could forfeit its first round pick in order to select a player from a college within 50 miles of their home stadium. That is how Philadelphia drafted Wilt Chamberlain and Cincinnati got Oscar Robertson

IIRC, the USFL had an interesting idea about restricting teams to drafting players only from certain schools, basically in their backyard. For instance the Philly team, the Stars, could draft from Penn State and a few other area schools. The real powerhouse schools, like Alabama, were open to all teams though, and…

So, Trump deliberately sank the USFL to try to settle for an NFL team, but still failed at failing and ended up with nothing? I think this guy is not good at making deals or leadership!

It is too bad that Steve Young lost two years to playing for their lousy, cash-strapped LA franchise, which lured him with a $40 million contract that he ended up taking pennies on the dollar for in a settlement just to be let out of it so he could jump to the NFL.

“Baker Street”? Anyone knows that the saxophone achieved its absolute peak with the version of “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You” by Jr. Wlaker and the All-Stars.

Who else was hoping Tess would respond to Jack’s “I love you” with “I know”?

I fucking love this movie. Love the Carly Simon song and the whole cast. It’s great fun.

Kobe doesn’t need to be summed up as either “basketball legend” or “accused rapist.”

The actual problem is that people insist on applying a final, singular label. Kobe doesn’t need to be summed up as either “basketball legend” or “accused rapist.”

The thing I find most interesting about Kobe is that he was accused of rape, yes, which he quite probably committed, yes. But he also seemed to genuinely admit guilt and reflect on the experience in order to reach a better understanding of ideas of consent. In recent years he’s been one of the basketball world’s most…

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