Cobalt Stargazer

Maybe, but it's easier to go after the A lister. Lively is much more famous than Jenny Slate who was namechecked here at least once because someone asked her what it was like to work with Baldoni, since she played his character's sister in It Ends With Us. Instead of just answering the question, Slate sidestepped by saying he seems 'really intense', whatever that means. If she's also being named in this suit, I missed it, so someone with better Google-Fu can enlighten me. If she's not, then perhaps Baldoni is wanting good press for himself at Blake's expense because she's the easier target. Why bring up Taylor Swift at all, come to that? How is it relevant who Blake's friends are if they're not going to be involved here?

I don't disagree, but a key ingredient here is Kylo's idolization of Darth Vader. Did Han and Leia keep all that stuff to themselves when the boy was growing up, the two things at the top of the list being the destruction of Alderaan and Han being imprisoned in carbonite because Vader turned him over to Jabba? I mean, either Kylo never heard those stories, which seems unlikely due to an entire planet being vaporized, or he did and he....what? Thought that was cool? Yes, Luke acted rashly, and yes, it turns out Snoke was manipulating Kylo for his own purposes. But I don't think it can be discounted that the man we're initially presented with wanted to be exactly like his grandfather, which is why he kills Han and might have killed Leia if he'd gotten the chance. To sever those ties. Can't blame Luke for that.

The Skywalker Whining Gene, in other words. Though there is always the argument that it would have ended that way without Luke's mistake. No one who faults him for his actions with Kylo ever takes the next obvious step, what Kylo does in response. "Why would Luke ever think Kylo would become evil? He <i>saved</i> his father! Why would he jump to.....oh. Well. Never mind, then." Replace Luke's other students with the younglings, and it's Anakin all over again.

We don't even proportionally treat male victims the same way we treat female victims. If more people had publicly sided with Sinead O'Connor back in 1992 instead of laughing at her or acting like she was a kook, would there have been a much more serious take on the abuse allegations she was making? The accusations against Michael Jackson have followed him beyond the grave, but we may never know how many boys he assaulted. I try to stay out of this kind of thing because it all leads back to the same place, but the system not being equal applies to other things too.

Isn't that what happened to Drew Barrymore? Not being assaulted, as far as I know, but her parents were taking her to parties and clubs when she was as young as ten, and that's how she became a cocaine addict. Fair enough to say maybe the kid lied to get out of the house/into the party and the parents are totally responsible as far as providing a good upbringing, but I do wonder if there's no curfew or something involved here.

With an assist from Rudyard Kipling

I mean, maybe, but I'm kind of uncomfortable putting the onus on Britney's children. If it's "just" that Jamie and Lynne messed her up in a way that can be eventually mended, that's one thing, but at this point I'm convinced she's mentally ill and can't/won't seek help, despite having the resources to do so. There's a piece here where the boys have already been parentified over themselves, because Britney and Kevin are disasters. I'm not sure it's fair to expect one or both of them to 'see the bigger picture' when she clearly is part of the problem in the present.

For an actress, she's a pretty good director, though.

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"Ransom? Are you back again already?"

I do feel bad for Lady Gaga, who for a non-actress has some acting talent and screen presence. But this is not the project she should have chosen.

'Course, her presence does give us this: "I'm Lori Craven, and I'm an actress." "An actress! Really! How nice for you. I'm Betsy Faye Sharon, and I'm a bitch. Now get out of here."

"Maybe I should have sent a memo."

"Apes don't read philosophy!" "Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."

Book spoilers, because I don't know if Villeneuve will follow that storyline. Really, the changes to Chani are because Zendaya was cast, and that's not a bad thing. Chalamet needs strong scene partners to interact with, and as a character Paul needs the pushback from someone. Might as well be the woman he claims to love, wife or no wife. Honestly, I'd be interested in seeing Chani and Irulan interact a lot more, because there's a moment where they make eye contact before Chani leaves, both furious and heartbroken. They'd be tied together through Paul, especially as the war starts.