Kenny

Never been to Camelot, but given the odd name, it sounds like a very American idea of Continental French cooking. Two downtown LA places have lots of traditional French things on the menu, along with other dishes: Church & State (excellent bistro) and Le Petit Paris (more upscale).

A sense of humor is a terrible thing to lose. Just answerin'.

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Americans in general have a very loose, heavily romanticized grasp of their own history. The 1773 Boston Tea Party was actually a revolt against corporate power in government, East India variety, but today’s right-wing Tea Party is pro-corporate government power all the way.

Actually, we are working hard to crush the Tea Party, which pops up way too often over on the Politics Forum.

You have just given one explanation (there are many) for why Hollywood produces so much crap. Artistic license to be idiotic, sentimental, visionary, sloppy, pretentious, etc., etc.

Yes, that's the usual excuse given for cinematic sloppiness. Since many in the audience will see the error, however, it fractures the essential suspension of disbelief, boomeranging one out of fiction and into reality. It's not like breaking your leg, so doesn't ruin the picture, but it is like stubbing your toe. Ouch!

Speaking of dates, I was especially amazed by the prominence in the movie of the famous Greek bronze sculpture of a dancing satyr. Wow! The movie takes place in the 1980s, and the dancing satyr wasn't discovered until 1998 at the bottom of the Mediterranean off Sicily. Awesome. Talk about academic cinematic insight!

Boil for 20 minutes! Egad! No wonder you hate deviled eggs. Ten minutes, max, yields the creamiest yokes -- no ricer needed to transform them from shredded yellow cardboard and get them smooth. And edible.

The roll out is probably awaiting Oscar nominations to come out next week, juicing ticket sales. A lot of release dates nationally and internationally come after the announcement.

Nice how that yellow star near the end doesn't q-u-i-t-e find the mark...

I don't dislike the film. I just think Hammer, a mediocre actor, is merely adequate in the role -- which is a definite drawback.

Very true. CMBYN is a coming of age love story, BM is a tragedy of the closet. The first could change the genders of the protagonists, the second could not. They really are completely different.

Zac, however, made a terrible mistake in “The Greatest Showman.” Not once did he take off his shirt. #epicfail

It's a moving movie.

I don't "intensely dislike" or "hate" Armie Hammer. I only think he's a mediocre, run-of-the-mill pretty boy who has been able to use certain assets to try to establish a career. And anyone should use anything they've got in that pursuit. That Hollywood responds to this sort of thing is one reason it produces mostly junk. Much of which has featured one Armie Hammer in assorted roles in the last half-dozen years. Just because you want to jerk off to him in a dark theater is no reason to make false assumptions. I mean, he's no Donnie Osmond.

Back at ya: And indeed, how would you know? Of course, I never said he wasn't a good father. (I've met him, and he was perfectly cordial, but I don't know him.) His "bully" comment was just silly. ("Maybe a piano will fall on my daughter's head, so we never walk by tall apartment buildings on moving day.") Hiding children from difficulties is not the same as protecting them. I'm reminded of the idiotic Trump/Melania claim that poor Barron would be scarred for life by seeing Kathy Griffin's decapitated head, as if hiding a crude and tasteless joke would be the way to go. Teaching your kids to come to you for help when -- and if -- they are in distress is preferable to pretending that they can be sealed inside a distress-free zone and that cruel taunts will never happen. All of which is to say: Armie Hammer has gotten way many more chances to be a movie star than anyone you can think of -- and it's no accident.

Nonsense. Bullying in school? Hammer's family has done more to encourage bad school behavior than most: His father funds and runs a right-wing evangelical Christian academy. Were Armie's daughter to experience such, surely he could find a few ways to mitigate the damage. Like, being honest, forthright, mature and protective -- you know: a good father.

When Gramps practically owned Occidental Petroleum and you're named for him, while Daddy has his off-shore stash in the Cayman Islands, I'm not worried about the possibility of future homelessness. Even if it's just a perception of huge wealth, in Hollywood, perception means a whole lot.

Doesn't really matter whether he is "to blame" or not. That film was meant to launch a franchise. Oops. Then "The Man from UNCLE" was meant to launch a franchise. Oops. And on top of all the other mediocrity he's been in, it also doesn't count as cynical to say: If Armie was black, Asian, female, or Other, his movie career would be long over. Maybe it's his affection for BDSM that keeps it going? This Buzzfeed story from last year ponders the conundrum: https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/ten-long-years-of-trying-to-make-armie-hammer-happen?utm_term=.umGxxoKxl#.wnYEEgdEY

This was actually about the 10th time his handlers tried to transform Armie Hammer into a movie star. A dime-a-dozen pretty boy with minimal skills attempting the sow’s ear into silk purse thing. Since his dual role in 2010 “Social Network,” essentially a stunt, he’s been in bomb after bomb, turd after turd. After the colossal Lone Ranger disaster — Disney lost more than $175 million! — most any other such actor would disappear into the Hollywood swamp. But Armie is a handsome, very rich white guy...so he keeps getting chances. (What a surprise!) I suspect it didn’t take much “convincing” to get him to take the role. I also expect that if Armie doesn’t win a supporting Oscar for “Name,” it’ll be back to the minors. And if he does win, he’ll become a B-movie staple.

If Gloria Vanderbilt was your mom, you’d be odd too. Come to think of it, even if she’s not...

Sweet revenge for Kathy Griffin, whose punishment far, far exceeded her non-crime.

Hm. I wonder whether the bf thinks Lemon drinks too much.

He’s a dick softener.