I’m not sure what distinction you’re trying to draw. All (almost all?) the drivers are there in part because they bring large sponsors with them. The sponsor gives a huge amount of money to the team, and then the team gives some of that money back to the driver. If they didn’t have the sponsors, they wouldn’t be there…

In hindsight it’s astonishing how it went from being a sudden cultural juggernaut to being... not even totally abandoned, but to the point even when somebody DOES make any reference to it it elicits groans and embarrassment...

Good point! I was wondering what was holding them back...

He exists, and his name is Roy Nissany. And Haas can’t have him, Williams already claimed him. Although even Williams aren’t in such a desperate situation as to actually let him in a race (he’s a “test driver” who’s been given half a dozen trips out in free practice over the last three years). [for comparison: Mazepin…

Probably every driver on the grid?

Particularly because they always treat these things as inexplicable - somehow the words just came out of their mouth, but nobody knows who put them there. If you can’t think of a reason why you said it, why would we believe you won’t say it again?

But surely any famous actor who takes a job is taking a job that could alternatively go to a less famous actor? Even the not-that-famous actors are taking jobs from totally unknown actors.

Come now, if we started being mildly suspicious of every man who just happened to be arrested for serious violent sexual assault, while coincidentally awaiting trial on a DIFFERENT allegation of serious violent sexual assault, having unrelatedly been also accused of sexual assault by three OTHER different women, where…

Wait, Paul Haggis created Due South!?

If they do indeed have a specific DEI editor checking every word that appears on screen then yes, that person clearly made a big mistake.

And the thing is, even if nobody says outright “straight roles are only for straight actors”, that’s the result: if you’ve spent the early years of your career playing flamboyantly gay men, and then go for a super-macho straight action hero who gets the girl, the casting people will politely say “we’re just not sure…

I would say, though, that there was probably a team of people assigned specifically to catch compliance problems. There probably wasn’t a team of people specifically assigned to catch racist connotations.

FWIW, I’ve worked and socialised with both posh white boys and working-class white men, and holy fuck the racism I’ve seen from the latter has made the former look like MLK.

Thank you. The big take-away here is how many people seem to have bypassed basic education. Bonobos aren’t binturongs - they’re (probably) humanity’s closest living relatives, and they’re constantly referred to in discussions of human minds and societies. [basically (simplifying here) because chimpanzees are…

I always think this is kind of like going into a cheese shop on the 4th of July (let’s say) and loudly complaining “oh, so the only thing you’re doing to mark this holiday is offering a limited edition cheese!?” - well yeah, they’re a cheese shop, what were you hoping they would do!?

It doesn’t matter how diverse the eyes are if they aren’t looking. The fact that they corrected it within minutes of it going live kind of suggests they DO have people who understand the problem, they just didn’t actually look at what they were publishing until they’d already published it. [or someone saw it, intended…

Well thee was the time he choked a woman, or the time he punched a woman, or the time he hit a woman with a... was it a chair? can’t remember... or the time he broke into a woman’s bedroom and ranted about her being a slut and how he was going to kill her, or...

Yeah, but “the supposed victim makes it sound like they felt like [the alleged perpetrator] provided them a kind of safe haven away from abusive parents” is basically a description of any alleged grooming case, so...

I see it as effectively a percentage scale: 1 Shkreli is Total Punchability. Perhaps we could even see it as a probability: the probability of someone punching Shkreli in certain specified laboratory conditions is 1 (i.e. a certainty).

I think one reason this situation feels so weird is that the combination of a CGI-led film with the trend for studios to want to perfectly position releases (instead of slotting them into the best date vaguely near when they’re ready) means that WB are planning to sit on this film for two years AFTER it was filmed.…