“A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.”

As a fan of unbridled depravity, or even of partially bridled depravity, I can’t wait, but …

SOCIAL MEDIA REACTIONS TO DAMIEN CHAZELLE’S LATEST HAVE BEEN WILDLY DIVERSE, RANGING FROM EFFUSIVE PRAISE TO GROSS DISAPPOINTMENT.”

In some stills from the film, Margot Robbie is pictured in a sexy blouse that shows off her nipples, with maybe just a hint of transparency.

Jesse Eisenberg plays a newly divorced doctor who acts and talks … well, like Jesse Eisenberg.

He’s no Gary Oldman, that lad. I’m willing to bet that if they reboot Wild Wild West he will not get the Ross Martin role as the master of voices and disguises.

But he does have the talk-too-much, neurotic nerd down to a science.

Anyway, he gets to have hot sex with about a half dozen women in the first episode, which none of us would mind. Hell, Brad Pitt should get so lucky! I wonder if Eisenberg could have imagined that he would ever get a part requiring those sorts of shenanigans.

Here are (some of) the women:


Juani Feliz

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Kimberly Chesser

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Tara Summers

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Erinn Holmes

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Ariel Ash

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Part 9: Stefanie Casini in Belly of an Architect

Part 8: Chloe Webb in Belly of an Architect

Part 7: Vivian Wu in The Pillow Book

Part 6: Guusje Van Tilborgh in A Zed and Two Noughts

Part 5: Frances Barber in A Zed and Two Noughts

Part 4: Julia Ormond in The Baby of Macon

Part 3: Toni Collette in 8 1/2 Women

Part 2: Polly Walker in 8 1/2 Women

Part 1: Amanda Plummer in 8 1/2 Women

None of the top seven teams looked very impressive.

#1 Georgia scored only 16 against Kentucky, which is a mediocre 3-5 in the SEC.

#2 Ohio State was losing at halftime to Maryland, which is a mediocre 3-5 on the Big Ten.

#3 Michigan needed to stage a furious fourth quarter comeback to win by 2 against Illinois, which is a mediocre 4-4 in the Big Ten.

#4 TCU barely eked out a 29-28 win against Baylor, which is a mediocre 4-4 in the Big 12. To be fair, the practice of barely eking out victories seems to be what TCU does every week. That was their 7th consecutive win by 10 or fewer.

#5 Tennessee got slaughtered, allowing 63 points to South Carolina, which is now a mediocre 4-4 in the SEC.

#6 LSU played a jobber in order to pad their record with an easy win.

#7 USC allowed 45 points, barely escaping with a 48-45 victory.

So Tennessee seems to be totally out of the Final Four picture. If the other six continue to win except when they play each other, then the final four will be:

  • The winner of Michigan vs THE Ohio State next week.
  • The winner of LSU vs Georgia the following week.
  • USC.
  • TCU.

If any of those teams falter badly, Clemson and Oregon still have long-shot odds of sneaking in. Clemson pays off at 20-1 if you bet them to go all the way, while Oregon is up there at 55-1