I hope the film bombs because it would be nice to see Disney stop strip mining its catalog for live-action remakes, and employ some people to write NEW ideas.  Crazy concept, I know.

Claiming he had custody just makes it worse, morally and legally. Him being in a position of trust, like a foster dad.

Step One: Take him down easy.

Yeah, coercion and assault are pretty common. Shit sucks. Your point?

“exactly zero feminists were demanding changes to a mediocre chocolate company’s advertising mascot”

The Right has mastered the false flag. They can manufacture ”leftist outrage” with a single tweet (played up on Fox News), knowing that the reaction from their own base will be immediate and disproportionate.

Now you’ve got me picturing Trump struggling to figure out where to grab a mermaid. 

My partner also insists on watching them. The most charitable review I can give these remakes is they do a good job of making me wish I were watching the originals.

This the right take - who on earth is asking for this?

I think it’s just a turn of phrase. Jolson loved blackface as much as DeSantis loves Covid.

Jones also said that when the Warners bought the Schlesinger animation studio, Jack Warner gave them a brief welcoming speech where he said something like, “I don’t know much about animation, but they tell me you guys make Mickey Mouse.” Jones also says Warner shut down the studio in the 60s when he found out they…

Chuck Jones has a great story about Jack walking into the animation department in a sort of a surprise inspection. He was furious when he saw the writers staring off into space thinking up ideas instead of typing. He wanted to hear the click-clack of typewriters, dammit. After he left in a huff, they all conspired to…

Probably the same way Robin Williams did everything: brilliantly.

Everyone knew, but it was only acceptable if the general public could publicly plead ignorance while privately joking about their effeminate mannerisms. See also: Liberace, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Rip Taylor, etc. etc. They were allowed to capitalize on being gay without being allowed to admit or simply…

Your worst take yet! I have to admire being able to top yourself like that. 

But what an amazing instance of using-his-power-for-good this is.

Whether you think you “knew” or not is not what matters here. When and where he wanted to deal with it is.

I mean, you can criticise the sort of shallow, consumption based lifestyle that Hilton exemplifies and also acknowledge that some of the pop culture that responded to her was mean-spirited and misogynistic. People can manage both those things.

Paris Hilton was tacky and awful and privileged and represented the bottom of the barrel of reality TV culture, but the discourse surrounding her at the time was...disproportionately fucked up. We (male comedians in particular) projected a lot of weird shit onto her that in hindsight I think was best directed…