From the makers of "Sharknado" comes the next sci-fi disaster movie: DOG SWARM !

"Bitchery" was a very poor choice of words, regardless. Even if one were to raise the question of whether a Twitter post was the best venue to make a public comment about one's child being molested, there's much less inflammatory rhetoric available to touch on that point.

I would have assumed Stephen King's tweet was referring to Mia Farrow's initial tweets during the Golden Globes with the "bitchery" comment, as opposed to Dylan's article.

Or flogging the bishop, for that matter.

in 2014, the Haves wear bowties with short sleeved button down shirts and post pictures of their adopted three legged cat "Atticus" to Instagram while they wait for their daily webinar to start

Regardless of how much one loves Tolkien, "more" is not synonymous with "better" where Peter Jackson's style is concerned these days.
I've already seen Desolation of Smaug, and all the added CGI action scene tomfoolery added to Smaug's underground dwarf-chase was not a welcome addition to Tolkien's material.

Keep an eye out for the ground-breaking follow-up study: "Women prefer wealthier husbands"!

Keep an eye out for the ground-breaking follow-up study: "Women prefer wealthier husbands"!

And if you're male, you get the bonus of footing the bill for the aforementioned three hours of torture.
(can of worms = opened)

Bebop is definitely one of the best space westerns, but there were plenty that came before it, including Bismark, aka Saber Rider.

Because the Japanese never miss a chance to put out-of-place mascot characters into any public gathering.

Wow, way to totally misread my point. I'm theorizing about some dolls, not US society's ills in general. Dial down the attempted racism straw man please.

Although in defense of the admittedly super-skinny Monster High characters, they are also very small- busted. So at least they don't create unrealistic expectations in that department.

Well, of course the West missed the point - that's what we do best over here! ;)

That's partially true, in that adult designers often bring their own personal artistic preferences to the table when making toys. However there is a LOT of product testing and experimentation done before any new toy line is greenlit, so if girls are gravitating towards this style of doll in the prototype play-testing…

I really hate the Bratz doll line, which made the realization that I actually kind of like the Monster High doll line somewhat unexpected. I guess I'm just a sucker for any shout-out to classic Universal monsters - even overly pretty fabulous ones.

Yes good point. Still very popular, and possibly influencing this generation of toy designers, if not all the children they are designing for. I might be wrong, of course. :)

As I said it kind of started with Disney's original princesses in the first place, so that Western aesthetic aspect is a valid point. However, the most extreme examples of "BESM" had already reached their peak in Japan in 1970s shojo manga such as Candy Candy and The Rose of Versailles. It took a while for that…

Haha - well, I did say I don't know for sure.