I think Polanski is immensely talented. Chinatown is one of the best films to ever come out of Hollywood. I just watched The Fearless Vampire Killers a few weekends ago and enjoyed it tremendously. Watching Polanski with Sharon Tate brings to mind a lot of what ifs.

That said, what he did was wrong. Criminally wrong. I don't care if her mother delivered her on a silver platter wrapped in nothing but Saran Wrap, he shouldn't have forced himself on her.

I'm glad she has a nice life and has found it within herself to forgive him. However, that doesn't mitigate his actions at all.

I've visited Hollywood countless times - even lived there a couple of times decades apart - and there has always been a palpable undercurrent of sadness and desperation that I don't feel anywhere else.

Like Raymond Chandler said "It was a good neighborhood to have bad habits in..."

My nephew visited over the weekend and I forgot to return Free Willy to Casa Video...

Yes, it's true. The Washington Times has never been a profitable venture. (Ask Joe Conason.) It has nothing to do with free content destroying papers or the current economic crisis. They've never been able to find enough stupid people to buy the damn thing to make it work in the truest form of capitalism. It's always been a heavily subsidized rag edited by the lowest form of sophists.

There are two distinct factions forming within the Republican party.

HA! Good one! I can't tell 'em apart, either.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A

(Ooops, I meant to post this here instead of the previous thread)

The future of the Republican party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A

:)

I was hooked after reading The Lame Shall Enter First years ago. In her work I sensed an ambivalence not only about the South, but toward Catholicism as well. I suspected it was that fluctuation that sparked her brilliance. (Interesting that she was friends with Thomas Merton.)

As much as I admire her body of work, I know so little about her. I look forward to reading the biography.

Your brother sounds like a great guy and I'm glad you had each other for so many years. The phrase "remember that time when..." is one of the best things anyone ever hears - right up there with "I love you".

Hilarious!

Just because I've never read about this particular fetish in Dan Savage doesn't mean it doesn't exist...

He's acting as though this budget has occurred in a vacuum. It didn't and he knows it. Most other people know it, too. McCain was AWOL when the Bush administration needed to be reigned in before attacking Iraq. McCain defended that monumental blunder yet he just keeps rolling along.

I wish he didn't represent Arizona. McCain and Kyl are embarrassing.

Remember when older actresses could carry a movie? Like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. According to Alice Cooper, Bette Davis was his role model for Alice. Another poster mentioned Harold and Maude with Ruth Gordon. My 17-year-old niece adores that movie. (I loved it when it was first released when I was 16.)

However, maybe the most extreme example of age discrepancy may be Mae West in Sextette. Being serenaded by her betrothed pre-007 Timothy Dalton was a suspension of disbelief few were willing to make. But it was high camp vaudeville and she knew it.

The question was about legalizing it so it could be taxed which would help save the economy. From that point of view, I would have laughed, too. Personally, I'm all for legalizing marijuana and I agree completely with Jim Webb.

I answered a call for jury duty in 1994. When the judge told us the case was about 7 pounds of marijuana, the middle-aged man in a suit and tie sitting next to me muttered, what the hell are we doing here?

I ended up being impaneled and after a very long series of questions involving personally knowing people who had been busted for pot and misc. other pot trivia, the judge asked if any of us had any other questions. I raised my hand and asked if this would involve mandatory minimum sentencing. He said that wasn't my job, and I said, no, judge, it should be yours.

He called me to the bench and asked if I suspected mandatory minimum sentencing was involved, would it affect my decision. I thought for about five seconds and said yes. I was dismissed.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't been so honest.

she will prevail in this lawsuit.

And the rest of us will celebrate the voluntary removal of the fucking barrier to entry.

Please do get on with it once you've finished teabagging the Bush tax policies.

Idiots.

Why do these women look at least ten years older than they are in these beauty pageants? The same holds true for the models in Penthouse and Playboy.

I've always wondered about it and thought I'd bring it up since I don't find the Miss California stuff interesting...

"Slutty flight attendant look" is not a socioeconomic comment.

Maybe if Sarah and Todd hadn't purposely twisted what Letterman said, I might be a bit sympathetic. But they did and I'm not. Now they look dumber than ever.

I still love Dave.

She's obviously a KGB plant. The Bush administration didn't entirely destroy the United States so she's here to undermine any stability Obama has created. Capitalist fools.