legit, I think Coppola recognizing the vulnerability of Priscilla by leaning into some hardcore aesthetics of girlhood, while also preserving Priscilla’s own experience is the right way to approach the story without reducing her solely to a victim.

I actually like the original (?) line about cocaine more because GOB sees the kids, takes a moment (presumably to decide what to say), and still says the least appropriate thing. 

Mr F i found genuinely offensive even at the time. not just because of the obvious, but it also felt pretty hacky for AD.

There’s this entire subset of comedy called “satire,” you should look into it.

I don’t understand the question, and I won’t respond to it.

I don’t believe it’s objectively outdated at all, it still applies to modern sensibilities and does not punch down at any marginalized group.

We don’t even see them except from a distance. They haven’t “done” anything. Meanwhile we learn a ton about her in two sentences, and Bateman’s crack takes her down yet another peg.  The joke hasn’t aged one minute.

‘Some usual suspect’, eh? Can you explain what I ‘usually’ do that would make me a ‘suspect’, in this case?  Can you tell me how you’re sure I’m ‘performing ignorance’?  Because I’m not, I legitimately do not know how this aged badly because it’s in no way making fun of gay people or painting them in anything but a…

Exactly, her behavior is not presented as a good thing or something to emulate, it’s over the top awfulness.

Did we miss that Lucille is not meant to be a sympathetic character, and that calling them dramatic and flamboyant (while being dramatic and flamboyant) is not meant to be an endorsement of being horrible?

“Maybe not everything on the show has aged well.”

I’ve assumed this would be a spiritual sister film to Sofia’s Marie Antoinette (barely legal young girl swept up in arranged marriage to royalty, and its discontents). I’m pretty excited to see Sofia’s take.

Maybe Guns N’ Roses but you kinda knew that they were going to have to implode at some point. Sammy leaving seemed to just come out of nowhere at the time and they never recovered.

Has any band managed to run their careers into the ground worse than Van Halen? In 1996, they could have coasted with Hagar for another two decades, just playing arenas and putting out albums people politely ignored. Instead, it was a lead singer carousel and a series of poorly-received tours.

Well, since it mildly inconvenienced him.

Still truly outrageous to me that the guy he said that to wasn’t able to successfully sue Musk for defamation. It was overtly, obviously defamation. Musk called a guy a pedophile as a complete non-sequitur insult for disagreeing with him about a submarine, then when the guy tried to let it slide as juvenile bullshit,…

Lol advertisers. That ship sailed months ago, one-joke.

Not including anyone from O Brother, is absolutely criminal.

that list is bonafide!

Well now I’m reminded of Nick Frost (or Simon Pegg) in Shawn of the Dead