This is so right on. So many people are looking for that EXCEPTION, when they can break the law and it’s ok because it’s directed against the “right (wrong)“ people. And this IS how it gets normalized, exactly how. This is why there’s a thing called “gay panic defense”. So many people insist on the presence of that…

Yes. 

Press charges. Press charges. Press charges. When someone assaults you, press charges. Even if you think you deserved it. Even if it will make trouble. Press charges. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to everyone. Press charges.

I was in high school, and ditched the afternoon to take a bus to the mall and see a movie, any movie. So I also had no expectations at all, though the tv ad may have looked good, and it was awesome! It was probably opening week, it hadn’t become a hit, and nobody else had seen or heard of it yet! So it was just like a…

I finally watched The New Guy not long ago. Some friends were raving about it a couple months ago, and about Ryan Reynolds, who I...do not care for.

It’s the type of fabric, particularly - yes, soft, usually cotton, but originally wool, I think. It’s known for being warm/cozy. Shirts are most common but bedsheets too, and pajamas. And it doesn’t HAVE to be plaid, though it’s weird when it’s a solid color (when I was in high school for some reason flannel shirts…

“Where’s Vera?? Where’s Vera? Flo, where’s Vera??”

This just reminds me, I remember when the first issue of “Playgirl” hit the newsstands. Preadolescent me thumbed through it in the grocery store, where it was of course displayed with no plastic cover or anything, just with all the rest of the magazines. I can’t say a light went off, because that had happened already,…

The thing is, the shapes were often great - great silhouettes, flattering (to the right kind of bodies), but the details and the fabrics and the patterns just got more and more and more genuinely hideous - by about 1975, it’s all so so incredibly ugly, it seriously baffles. You can see the progression on Mary Tyler…

Maddening...I assumed it was assigned to him, though. 

NO. They don’t. They literally don’t! They DO NOT look at whatever it is they get upset about!! That’s part of their deal!

Oh...well, I can’t imagine your memories of it are particularly fond. It’s funny watching it again as an adult - it seemed pretty stinky as a kid, and as an adult, when you know more about movies, it IS pretty stinky. You think - what terrible writing. What terrible direction! What strange and terrible acting choices!

THAT was the first non-G rated Disney movie!

Literally, this is how it’s always been. Always. No blood means not really violence.

Were they? I’m sure they were but I seem to recall Touchstone was for PG and PG-13, and Hollywood (“If It’s The Sphinx, It Stinks”) Pictures was for R-rated.

“...I can think of no other corporation in American history that has been built more squarely on the backs—and on the wallets—of parents and families”

“Vile”. Yes, that’s the word. We were seen as vile. And I’m one hundred percent fine with the fact that, with the passage of time, that fact is more and more forgotten, and even not known to have ever been true. Forgotten even by me, somehow, finally, usually.

One of those movies which was pretty huge when it came out, launching the career of a MAJOR Hollywood star in Kathleen Turner, but now is pretty widely forgotten. That’s how it goes, I guess...

Body Heat! Did the “obit” mention Body Heat, even? It may have and I just missed it.

Ugh...I just turned 56 and it makes me sad that I don’t imagine I’ll be reading AVClub when I turn 70 (because of course there won’t be one). I’ve been a regular reader/commenter since 2000ish.