I feel like this behavior/attitude has been emerging in Kim all along, and wouldn’t really describe it as rapid. She’s shown a propensity to get excited by danger and illicit behavior from nearly the beginning, and she’s also shown a more unshakable dedication to “justice” than Jimmy - those two strands have married…

I don’t know if Jack White’s “too old” for a list like this, but he’s a helluva frontman and his new album rips.

Damn, The Quiet American is a fantastic film that doesn’t seem to get much love these days.

Well, her appearance in The Player gets a mention, and she’s in that for, maybe, 2 seconds.

Neil has a song with a disability and has for a very long time been on the side of science when it comes to medicine support.Check out the Bridge School.

Hear! Hear!

Yes, definitely a leg up. And I wouldn’t be surprised, based on this recent interview, to find out he threw around the Whedon name a bit as a young writer, but would later deny doing so because of “talent.” But I do think it’s important to acknowledge the talent, and influence, because if those hadn’t been so…

He definitely didn’t “fail upwards” - he’s an asshole and an abusive prick, we can all acknowledge that (now), and he definitely got his foot (or feet, or whole big head) in the door due to his family history and connections. But in addition to his early TV work, he was a highly valued script doctor, then wrote most…

Definitely missed that, thanks. Will have another look!

Agreed. Travis is a total dick, for sure, but he doesn’t really know how not to be a dick. Apologizing to Nat rather than maintaining the facade is, I presume, a step in the right direction.

Ah, I dig that idea!

I was really confused at first when so many red shirts appeared in the early party prep scenes - I thought something fishy was going on and even freeze framed and asked lady vadasz “who’s she? who’s she? who’s she?” I had assumed we were down to about the three guys and 8 or 9 of the girls.

But I’m not sure that qualifies her success as it was. She was an amazing talent who had a tremendous impact on Hollywood history. Like many talented women in the ‘70s an ‘80s she was barred from directing mainly for sexist reasons, but also, for much of her career she insisted she didn’t want to direct. So while I’d…

As other’s have pointed out, the Karina Longworth series on her from her “You Must Remember This” podcast is pretty great. There’s a book about her production design coming out in the next month or so.

The Thing Called Love (which I think is River Phoenix’s last performance) and The Cat’s Meow are not great movies, per se, but they’re both a lot of fun and well-worth watching. His Tom Petty doc from ‘07 is excellent.

Why does directing have to play a role in her success? She had more influence on the look of Hollywood in the ‘70s - the attention to detail, the approach to realism, a realignment of how location shooting should work - than most of the decade’s celebrated directors.

Polly Platt wasn’t just responsible for much of the success of Bogdanovich’s early films, she’s one of the most important production designers in Hollywood history. Along with a handful of others in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s (Richard Sylbert, Dean Tavoularis, Mike Haller, a few others), she helped perform a total…

So shitty! I’ve been hanging out here a long time, and amidst all the upheaval of the past several years, Dowd has remained one of the reasons to keep coming back. What an underhanded, slimy way to treat - not just a valued and valuable employee - but just a human being generally. Fucking cretins.

Worth pointing out that the cinematography for this ep was handled by Dean Cundy? 

Say what you want to say (not trying to quash your free speech, man), but “witch hunt” - when women were killed . . . . for being women - and “lynching” - when black people were killed . . . for being black - aren’t the best terms to describe a situation like this. He’s lost his acting job - which better people have…