Right. But that’s my whole quibble with folks asking for a blanket policy like this. Should, say, Angelina Jolie and Bard Pitt have gotten get the same money for something like MR AND MRS SMITH? Sure (sorry I can’t think of a better example offhand of a movie with male-female leads of similar-size roles). But should…

as the idea of being in a theater filled to the gills with hardcore fanboys makes me want to wander the Alaska wilderness until I die of exposure.

Understanding the reluctance to publicize the relationship, I still think there’s a bit in there somewhere about Leslie only allowing the relationship exist because she’s scared of super-assassin Black Widow. . .

Have there been accusations of Louis’ behaviour continuing post-2005? Because the original articles detail events up until then, and even mention apologies after that. It does seem like he may have been trying to stop and atone, even if he didn’t want his past misdeeds revealed.

I’m unfamiliar with Mullaney’s work (other than knowing he was a former SNL writer who had a sitcom I didn’t watch) - is his delivery always so mannered? The material was strong and I mostly enjoyed him, but his rhythms threw me - like Sean Hayes channeling Christine Baranski.

The Black&Decker combo is $99, not $20. Unless there’s a coupon you’re not sharing. . .

The Black&Decker combo is $99, not $20. Unless there’s a coupon you’re not sharing. . .

Yes x1000

Joking aside, I keep hoping for a better ending for the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION gang than NEMESIS. Personally, I’m hoping for a 10-hour mini on CBS All Access run by Ron Moore, but I’ll take anything at this point.

You misspelled “Richard Schiff”. ; )

To complicate things even further, by all accounts Jenkins and Geoff Johns did a significant (uncredited) rewrite.

I noticed Peter Dinklage’s name on the poster. Do we still not know who he’s playing? I’m assuming voice-acting for one of Thanos’s goons, but. . .

I tend to agree. Loved the comic, but found the film well-made but pretty dull. I thoroughly enjoyed Johnston’s second attempt at the period with THE FIRST AVENGER, though.

When writing articles on Ms. Dash, how tempting is it to not italicize “clueless” in the headline?

Both “Partyman” and “Trust” were also Prince’s second pass for songs for the film. “100 Balloons” (available on HITS/B-SIDES) was his first attempt for the parade scene. . . I used to know the name of the rejected song for the museum scene but those brain cells are not available. Maybe “Rave To The Joy Fantastic”?

Hamm said in an interview that Jack Napier was named before Nicholson was cast and was entirely a play on “jackanape” - nothing to do with the Alfred actor.

And yet Burton chose Prince himself. But he only wanted Prince songs for the parade and the museum. When the ultra-prolific purple dude wrote an album’s worth of songs, WB “urged” Burton to cram them in wherever he could.

AND he’s one of the arms dealers negotiating with Gene Hackman in SUPERMAN IV.

Nicholson was (give or take thirty pounds) a very faithful screen version of the Englehart-Rogers “laughing fish” Joker. Anyone who says he was “just playing himself” wasn’t paying attention.