I have to say that I avoid Cruise (religiously? lol) for the most part. But if I ever change my mind and decide to do a Cruise marathon, that will be the first film on my list.
I’ve seen Risky Business, Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, Oblivion, and War of the Worlds, and Edge of Tomorrow - all departures from his usual type.

Maybe our bowls are flatter than others, but they fit fine on the bottom rack. Dinner plates go in the back, lined up left to right, salad/dessert plates in the front right, front-to-back, bowls line up front left, front-to-back. The racks on the front left are double spaced, so it only holds six of them, but that’s…

We bought a model with a third rack a couple of years ago. I have mixed feelings about it. We mostly use it for container lids, spatulas, and the occasional sharp knife. The rest of the flatware goes in the basket. I find it’s utility to be limited, and sometimes I wish we didn’t have it. We have a lot of tall things…

I either put bowls in the top or on in the back of the bottom, loading from left to right. that only really works for the broader pasta bowls. small bowls need to go up top or wedged in somewhere. endless source of frustration in my house.

My favourite bit in Maverick - it’s comedic as hell - is when he jumps out of the attic in...and stands up and looks in the window and the colour just drains from his face.

I have mixed feelings about this. People who appear in reality TV shows absolutely deserve residuals, just like any other TV performer. And no one should be filmed having a nervous breakdown. That’s just some basic human decency.

lol, yeah. I have a Bosch too. Figuring out the best way to load it has been an odyssey. There are no good ways to put bowls in it. And the whole “quiet” part of it is moot when the sprayer has such force it bangs things like the bowls up and down on the prongs or against each other. Plates also tend to rattle in…

Absolutely, Billy Zane is scarier than most of the monsters mentioned.

Chicago had it’s highest hotel occupancy ever the weekend she was in town, but it was also the weekend that the James Beard Awards were here and the American Society of Clinical Oncology had its annual meeting a mile south of her concert venue. ASCO draws 40,000 people from around the world, the huge majority of them…

No, they’re right. You can be friendly and open and a great boss, but you need concrete professional boundaries.  Turning your employees into friends is a recipe for disaster.

Star Treks II, III, IV, VI, and First Contact, at least, were better than The Motion Picture

X marks despot.

Lauren Boebert is terrible and possibly Trump deserves her.

Oral-entation?

Almost?

LIZZO hounded her employees to catch dildos ejected from performers’ vaginas. LIZZO cheered loudly to motivate employees to eat bananas protruding from performers’ vaginas.

I really don’t get the controversy here. The point of the strike isn’t to stop making movies to make a point, it’s to get the working terms and conditions you want.

I would counter and say those are not better but different and cool in new ways.  

I cackled. Thank you.

>A lot of actors forced into a strike