Amazed to find that she’s eight years older than him but playing his love interest, not his mother.

No, he wasn’t a misogynist or anything (and his posthumous works had a lot more female characters, tbh).  It’s just one of those things people bring up like it’s some kind of big deal.

This is AV Club, not your grandma’s quilting bee.  Very few people aren’t going to be fully aware of these things here.

She’s a Country singer. Pretty blonde lady. Got her start on American Idol. Sings the Sunday Night (American) Football theme song. None of those things will help you I’m sure, but she’s very rich and has sold a lot of albums. Mostly in the US of course.

“Quick, Harry - what’s a word that rhymes with ‘plunge’?”

Yeah, people forget Shelob. She’s a girlboss!

The masculine perspective in LotR is pretty all-encompassing, it’s true. Peter Jackson even expanded Arwen’s role considerably, and she’s barely in it. She, Galadriel, and Éowyn are the only women with any particular agency or significance (unless you count Shelob.) It’s honestly pretty glaring given the immense scope…

To be fair, I wouldn’t consider Tolkien to be anti-women for his time (especially since his 3 primary female characters are all powerful in their own right).  However Lovecraft’s racism is something unique even to his time period. 

Yes, Tolkien wrote very few female characters.
Now tell us how racist HP Lovecraft is.  I’m sure that will be a big shocker to lots of people.

Sorry, but having a songwriting credit on a pop song doesn’t actually make you a songwriter. When you start to get a bit of pull, your management starts lobbying for songwriting credit as part of your contract, to ensure you have an income stream.  Often the contributions the stars actually make in material terms are…

Though Styles has yet to call out Gallagher for his words, he’s going to have to log off from Twitter for the day. You do not want to mess with Styles’ stans.

This kinda shit is why I find it hard to be a fan of anything Sony does. They are so single-mindedly focused on profitability that they rush things, and make stupid decisions. They had one of the best cloud streaming paid cable services on the block with Playstation Vue and because they just couldn’t separate it from…

Honestly, even if Willis was just being a dick back then, it still works as a ‘putting things into perspective’ moment. Whoever and whatever was ultimately at fault, it seems like Smith’s just acknowledging that his beef with Willis is just kind of petty in comparison to what Willis is now going through and that he’s…

I wish this style of entertainment reporting would come back. And bring back the use of “boffo”

Apatow Cash Cow Turns Bow-wow Sow

It does if you are having trouble remembering/processing words and want to limit your interaction with people as much as humanly possible because you find it humiliating.  He also was the only one on the Moonrise Kingdom cast to rent his own mansion quarters rather than staying in a house with all the other actors. …

Smith has also spent a long time telling the tale of how Willis let him rewrite his big monologue in “Live Free Or Die Hard” because it was initially shit, and when the suits didn’t want to pay for an extra half a day or whatever to shoot it, Willis just asked them who their understudy was for John McClane.

Kevin Smith is up there with Seth McFarlane on the list of people I’d probably like a lot as people, while not liking much of their work.

I’ve had relatives who suffered cognitive disorders, so I kind of feel where he’s coming from. Once you hear that someone’s been diagnosed with a medical condition which can result in changes to their personality or ability to comprehend things, it throws your past interactions with them into question. You start…

That's why I wondered if it's Americans finding it distracting - I'm from Lincolnshire but lived in London for years and know people who sound like Steven...!