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Gadzooks, Caped Crusader! (Sorry)

I do think they offer decent coverage and analysis on some stuff. I also think about 95% of their major staff is blinkered and cloistered in a bubble of groupthink and knee-jerk resistance to any criticism of longstanding attitudes and bias. You have to take the solid material they do produce and then account for their weaknesses critically. And no, I don't give them money either.

Discovered today Ryan Phillippe (OLTL) was briefly in the running for Captain America. I'm glad that didn't pan out - he's an interesting personality onscreen today but too analytical and cold for the role.

A refreshingly candid piece from a NYT election correspondent on their failures, for once:

This is cool: The other Fan Dossier finalists.

Oh, I think I know:

Scum calls to scum:

By all accounts she did well, and looked good. It seems to have been a substantial part. I'll have to watch it.

Pretty sure that's an outlier.

I liked her book a lot. I did find her commentary on her drinking problem very candid - it's not for me to say if she was in denial about actually being an alcoholic. Not knowing the woman I can't make a judgment. She certainly didn't deny she had a problem.

He's doing great today:

The bigger problem is Trump probably half-believes it himself.

Orson Welles' long-lost The Other Side of the Wind - reconstructed and slated to be released by Netflix - has been pulled from the Cannes Film Festival along with several major new films due to Cannes' ongoing nasty feud with Netflix. Beatrice Welles, Welles' oft-litigious daughter who fought the Wind restoration team for years, sent a letter to Netflix pleading for them to reconsider. I support Netflix boycotting Cannes until it agrees to give their films award consideration - there are some excellent ones, including Dee Rees' Mudbound (an Oscar contender this past year) and Bong Joon-ho's Okja. But with The Other Side of the Wind I'd make an exception. It was Orson Welles' final work and I believe it deserves to be first screened at Cannes. I certainly will be making an effort to see it theatrically assuming it screens locally.

Comey is not my highest priority either. I think what he did to Clinton for a mix of reasons - political pressure from the NY office, a compulsive need to grandstand and be seen as 'apolitical', and personal resentment - is unforgivable and had immense consequences for the nation. I also think he admits to some of that in part of the excerpts I've read. And I think the man is still a patriot who believes Trump is a clear and present danger and wanted to do the right thing - even though he helped get us here. Most people are more than one thing. Comey is a classic and perhaps tragic case of that. Will I ever buy his book? I don't know, probably not. But the excerpts are very compelling, and I feel I understand his very complicated and flawed mindset a little better.

I think some of them have started peeling off in the House expressing support for Mueller and maybe the Senate also, I can't recall. Do I think that'll mean anything for a bipartisan push in an election year? No. This has to happen another way.

I'd be amazed if that plan from Warner worked, lol.

He was just making things up to deny the tape. He also has occasionally claimed recently that the Access Hollywood tape doesn't sound like him - even though he already admitted it. He's deranged.

I think ODAAT has been a watercooler show for a certain segment online and on social media - I just don't think it's as popular, obviously, as some others. But certainly most of the same critics praise and spotlight all of the above.