Cobalt Stargazer

Forty-three?!?!

If they do, they shouldn't. The boys aren't to blame for her being a train wreck, even if Kevin is an irresponsible jerk. As far as I'm aware, they asked her for one thing - to stop talking about them online and airing their business in front of strangers - and she either couldn't or wouldn't do it. I don't blame her if she no longer wants to pay her ex-husband after all this time, but my feeling is also that the kids are the couple of people who really don't want anything from Britney aside from her absence in their lives, at least not without some major changes in how things go.

A quick Google search says that Kevin is a "rapper". Yes, in quotation marks. Yes, I laughed.

To be fair, I always wonder if real life scientists get offended about how they're portrayed in movies or on TV. I watched The Thing the other night, the one with Kurt Russell, and I'm pretty sure a professional scientist or researcher's first instinct would not be to dig up and then defrost a big ice block with some kind of critter inside it. Just in case. Fictional scientists are always messing around with things they don't understand and can't control, so it's probably better if they keep their inventions to themselves until they're perfected.

Kind of? What Cameron ultimately gets out of it is the possibility of really having it out with his dad. Because it's Cameron who accidentally destroys the car, and Ferris offering to take the heat because the man "hates him already" is not that far apart from Jeannie later backing her brother up when he's been caught by Rooney. Cam spends most of the movie fretting about his life, but he also fully believed his father cared way more about the stupid car than about him, and in that sense he maybe gets more out of the excursion than Ferris does, being able at last to stand up for himself.

Evil Under The Sun, and it's even better in Maggie Smith's posh accent. "Arlena and I were in the chorus of a show together. Not that I could ever compete. Even in those days, she could always throw her legs higher than anyone...and wider."

Perhaps, but there's Clueless and then there's Gone Girl, and there's a galaxy of difference between the two. Cher's relative immaturity aside, her relationship with Josh is mostly healthy and drama-free, at least by the time the movie ends. Presumably she went on to college, graduated and began a career, much like Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, who on the surface of it is also relatively immature. When she and Josh break up, she'd likely be hurt and upset for a bit, but it won't be the end of her world. Because Mel's her dad, and that means she inherited some good sense in addition to her own smarts, so she'd be fine once she's past the initial heartbreak.

"You guys wanna see a dead body?" On August 6th, 1986, this coming-of-age masterpiece premiered in California. Based on a Stephen King novella called The Body, it featured young stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell, in a story of friendship in the twilight between childhood and becoming an adult. Despite the subject of the boys going on a journey, it's both moving and timeless, a movie that may have been forgotten by some. Such a shame that River isn't with us anymore.

Although it's interesting, because we were just talking about "Why is Jennifer Aniston so obsessed with cancel culture?" Well, maybe this is why, because it operates from the place of calling it malice when it's just being ignorant. Alice Cooper is 75. Carlos Santana is 76. If the interviewer had asked Bruce Springsteen, 73, the same question, they'd have probably gotten an answer that was more enlightened, though I will say the Cooper remarks seem to have been intended to make him answer for what other people said. Which doesn't have anything to do with him. Maybe they really should just shut up and sing?

Aren't people usually afraid of what they don't understand? It seems like there's some spring-boarding from Cooper's onstage persona to what his 'real life' thinking should be, and that his confusion is coming from an uneducated place. There might be something interesting in why he's uneducated at his age, but I don't believe he spoke out of wanting to cause harm, just out of ignorance.

I would add that it's kind of on the same level as people calling Joe Locke ugly when mostly all he's done is exist, because there's a feeling of "Leave those children alone!" to it for me. As far as I can tell, there's never been this deep love for Snow White, since I've seen articles about how she's the worst Disney princess. I'm sure people like the character and enjoy seeing her onscreen, but I wonder now if Jenna Ortega had been cast if she'd pass muster. Because it'd still be the same character with the same themes, just with a different Latina actress in the role.

And the era.

Even if Sam is a grifter, Britney's issues pre-date the initial relationship and the marriage. No one likes to talk about it, I don't think, but she stopped growing emotionally and possibly mentally years ago, and now she's a forty-one year old woman who can't get a handle on her life despite how much money she has and the access to people who could help her without ulterior motives. Would she have listened if someone had told her not to marry him? Doubtful, and yeah, Sam probably went into it thinking it would add up to a payday, but I would not live with her no matter how much money it could mean. On the one hand, it's like, Boy, bye, but it's also, Maybe both of them dodged a bullet.

Isn't he a model or something? He's not famous-famous, certainly not on her level, but I thought that was how they met while she was still under the conservator ship. As was said, I'm sure Britney is a lot, but it seems like she could find one person to be close to that's not out to rip her off.

And now for something completely different: That didn't take long.

The argument can be made that Peter was the least mature of the Guardians, though. Nebula was raised by Thanos, if you can call it that. Rocket was either born in a lab or was captured out in the wild and then caged up to be experimented on. Mantis lived by Ego's side for God knows how many years, and he tolerated her because she was the only one who could make him sleep. Drax, for all his cloddishness, had a family that was mercilessly slaughtered for no reason except they were there. Even though he was abducted by Yondu and then kept instead of being delivered to his father, Peter never seemed to outwardly be troubled by his life, or that bothered by growing up in a cadre of thieves. The very first time we see him, he's singing and dancing by himself while on his way to steal something, and he's boastful about his nickname even though Korath had never heard of him. There's a reason NuGamora is like, "This guy?" to Nebula, and Nebula responds, "It was either him or a tree." It's Peter's immaturity that wouldn't let him let go of the new Gamora, the one who wanted nothing to do with him. The one who went off to live with criminals rather than hang around, maybe or maybe not because he was driving her up every wall in sight. This is the guy who stayed away from earth on purpose, knowing his grandfather might still be alive but with the old guy having no idea of what happened to him. Growing up is hard because it hurts, because it means putting aside some things - and some people - that there's no longer room for. Even if it's only because they no longer have room for you.

Because the Snap does mess things up time-wise, since it hasn't been two years, it's been seven, and even I forgot for a second. Nebula and Rocket being the only Guardians to survive means they had to limp along together in the wake of the deaths of the others, which means Nebula had to be the one to tell Rocket that everyone else was gone, since he only saw Groot disappear. They had to move on from it together, so they'd done most of their processing by the time everything was 'made right'. As a related note, one of the issues with these movies is that everything is expected to snap (sorry) back into place after X amount of time. One of the few times we got a more realistic reaction was post-Civil War, post-Infinity War Tony seeing Steve again, and then we didn't like that either because clearly it should have been Tony's responsibility to thank Steve for lying to him by omission and grovel for forgiveness that he didn't reach out sooner, and never mind being stressed and exhausted and maybe traumatized. If this movie focused too much on Peter's feelings about this Gamora not being "his" Gamora and too little on how everyone else felt, it's important to remember that Gunn was hogtied by the Russos deciding to kill her off to begin with. Because Quill was the last one to see her alive before Thanos took her to Vormir through that portal, and then he got to Titan and it's Nebula who realizes first that her sister was dead. Gunn had to deal with the choices of other people, and I think he did the best he could with the situation he was left with.

Today I learned that this exists:

She never recovered from the death of her son Shane, who died by suicide last year, and that was on top of all of her other problems. I hope her wounded soul finds the peace she was never able to maintain in life, and that she's reunited with the boy on the other side.

Well..... There's some argument that this has been going on since Pride & Prejudice, that Elizabeth and Darcy are ultimately seen as romantic because he cleans up his act and stops being a tool, and yet he insults the hell out of her with his first proposal, acts like he'd be doing her "such a favor" because she's boring and her family is awful but by gosh he'll marry her anyway. But we'll stick to television, so. It's all part of the belief that "the love of a good woman" is enough to make a man straighten up and be the adult partner she needs. Bonus points if he's hot (like Darcy, like Spike, like whoever else) although that just underlines that rotten behavior will be overlooked if it comes wrapped in a nice-looking package, at least where the people consuming this kind of media can be concerned. Steve Urkel is the definite outlier, as he was an obvious geek with an annoying personality, but no conventional good looks to balance out the creep factor, much less over-ride it. I have always thought that Xander Harris, also from BTVS, gets so much dislike based just as much on his perceived attractiveness as on anything he ever did or said. I probably couldn't articulate it that way when I was younger and the show was still on the air, but it's telling that it's Spike who gets to be the Romantic Hero who cuddles with the woman he assaulted while claiming to love her, after the Buffybot and after the stalking and after "out for a walk, bitch", and it's all written off because he has a nice set of cheekbones. Barf.

That's because it only takes fifteen or twenty minutes to get there. Especially if Jack Bauer is flying the plane.

That's why they have Big Fun.

Unless you're Cillian Murphy. Most of the age discourse regarding Oppenheimer centers around Florence Pugh, who is 27, but that comes off as disingenuous since her character is involved romantically with 47 year old Murphy's. Like, just say "He's very old and it's gross" and get it over with.

Posting this because it made me laugh. Taylor broke up with Taylor, and then married a woman named Taylor.