From this interview:
AV Club: What’s the worst example of interviewers trying to match that perception by being just as wacky as they think you are?

John Flansburgh: That probably comes up most in doing morning radio, because the morning-radio guys, they just want everybody to be game for their stuff. I mean, as a feminist, I take serious issue ( Read more... )

From the New York Times, “In Polanski Case, ’70s Culture Collides With Today”:
At the end of “Manhattan,” the celebrated movie romance from 1979, a teenager played by Mariel Hemingway delivers some good news to the 42-year-old television writer, portrayed by Woody Allen, with whom she has had a long-running sexual affair ( Read more... )

The petition to free Roman Polanski (scroll down for English translation)

A counter-petition: “Art does not excuse rape”

I’m planning to see the (in)famous Peeping Tom (1960) at Film Forum tonight, so I want to clear the decks...

• Hartnell finally had a heroic moment in Brighton Rock, when he punched Richard Attenborough to stop him from killing his wife (who he only wooed and wed to prevent her from testifying against him) in a fake suicide pact. Mind you, up until ( Read more... )

I noticed something while watching Children of Earth. Apparently on Torchwood, the gritty, “adult” adjunct to the Whoniverse, we can show:

• Bombings
  
• Multiple deaths by gunshot
  
• A skinless man screaming
  
• Projectile vomiting aliens
  
• The exploitation, torture and deaths of children

but we cannot use the word “abortion.”

Courtesy of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books:
Amazon RankFunction: verb ( Read more... )

Great. Now when people ask why I don’t own a cellphone, I can claim that I don’t want to run the risk that I’m giving money to Congolese rape squads.