Controversy alert: Any Ragtime film will need to cut out about half of the songs, because they’re just not that good. There are a couple gems, a handful of good, but forgettable songs, and then a lot of filler.

Small note: Tony is Polish-American.

It seems bizarre to me to draw any kind of connection between this and a potential remake of Casablanca (or any other classic film). Musicals are their own genre, with a long history of frequent revivals and adaptations.

“Late” is obviously a reference to the fact thta he literally died a week ago, which would be odd not to mention. I suppose they could have said “recently late,” to be more specific.

If someone refers to “the dance craze that’s sweeping the nation*” do you chastise them for misusing a sports metaphor, because there are in fact people doing other dances?

I doubt Spielberg would go in for soulless autotune. Whether he can direct his performers to “natural and expressive” singing (or hire the talent who can) is another question.

Stalemate is a very specific term that means one player is not in check, but any move they make will put them in check.

Frankly, a pitch clock would not be a bad thing for the MLB.

It is essentially being broken right now. That’s what we’re seeing in the Championship described by this article.

Okay... put the law aside. You think it was “right” that her father shared the letter with the press? You think it was “right” that the Daily Mail published it?

Yeah, ‘let’s meet up some time’ in British English is what two people say to each other when they mean “I never want to see your face ever again if I can help it”.

A plainclothes officer knocking on classroom doors shouting “open up, bro!”

Believe it or not there are many options other than “immediately attempt to confiscate every gun in America” and “do nothing at all.”

Am I reading this correctly that she actually ID’d another man in the line-up, and the police made up a story to convince her to change her mind?

And at this point there are like 3 or 4 stylists who dress most of Hollywood. It’s not just homogenized because of the increase in “professional” dressers, it’s literally the same person’s taste being repeated over and over.

Honestly I liked Melania’s decoration’s a lot more than this years, just in that they were actually interesting.

arguably the worst Formula 1 season of all time

I had the same thought.

Okay. What is his plan for de-populating and re-wilding the UK?

I’m pretty sure he’s been in an apartment at Hudson Yards all season (at least once he left Rava’s).