“His performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface in a long, long time. It’s horrifically bad.”

“I used to think that it was permissible for a straight actor to play a gay character in some circumstances; now I’m willing to go hard-line against it if it means denying James Corden even one future role.”

Wait! James Corden is straight? Go figure.

I’m trying a new system this year (we used it with some of the specialty polls, but never with the “Scene of the Year” voting). I didn’t pre-screen any nominees. I accepted anyone’s nominations. As a result, we need kind of a screening process to winnow the choices down to a manageable number. So this is not the actual vote, but rather a preliminary process to determine which candidates make the run-off. I can then take a reasonable amount of them and set up the balloting with thumbnails and links.

Make your selections here.

I know there are way too many choices. The choices are listed in random order, different for every voter, so the ones you ignore will balance out. Therefore, I think the important thing is for you to order the ones you think are your personal top twenty or thirty (or less if you just don’t know enough about the choices). If you want to try to split hairs all the way down, you can, but I didn’t. I stuck with the ones that really made enough of an impression on me that I could recall them without references. I just tried to drag my top favorites into approximately the right order.

Page uses both he/him and they/them pronouns, and describes himself as transgender and non-binary, meaning that his gender identity is neither man nor woman.”

Back in his woman days, Elliot placed two since in the top eight in our best nude scenes of 2016, and then of course did an epic nude scene with Kate Mara last year in the best nude scenes of 2019.

He was 6’7″ and 275 pounds of solid muscle, and pretty much had to be in order to wear Vader’s 40-pound costume through grueling filming, often in hot weather.

Something I learned from the article, but you megafans probably know already: given Prowse’s size and strength, George Lucas gave him two options – Vader or Chewbacca.

In the original trilogy, Vader was not a one-man effort. Five guys contributed. Prowse basically just did the bit of walking around and looking intimidating. James Earl Jones did the voice, another man did the heavy breathing, and two others did specialty scenes: a trained swordsman did the lightsaber duels; another actor provided the face for Vader’s unmasked death scene.

I’m thinkin’ those scientists may want to tinker with their formulas a bit. Put Bella Hadid and Gal Gadot side by side and ask a hundred people, fifty of each gender, which is more beautiful. I’m guessing Gal wins something like 75-25.

You don’t need to use Gal Gadot in the example. I’m sure you can find a hundred famous women who would beat Hadid by similar margins.

This is unbelievable to me for many reasons.

Who even thought that Larry the Cable Guy could name a college, let alone root for one?

And even more significantly, who could have guessed that Larry the Cable Guy had teeth?

Joking aside, the distinguished Lawrence the Cable Gentleman (I think his real name is Dan) attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. I’m going to take a wild guess that he did not major in quantum physics or classical languages.

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We’ll take “recently deceased” for $1000.

This beloved quiz show host has poted his last potable.

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Ken Jennings’ tweet says it all:


If you are a baby boomer, there’s a very good chance he was one of your idols in high school or college, and you probably remember him vividly, although he really hasn’t performed in about 50 years, with some brief exceptions for charitable causes.

In my corridor of the freshman dorms, perhaps half of the guys had at least ten of Lehrer’s songs memorized. Since we all came from different parts of the world, our slowly discovered mutual love for Lehrer’s satire was part of our bonding experience, perhaps the largest part. Jocks and nerds, intellectuals and frat boys found that they had Lehrer in common, and that led to some guys forming otherwise unlikely lifetime friendships.

“Lehrer, 92, announced Tuesday via his website that he’s effectively putting everything he ever wrote into the public domain. That means his lyrics and sheet music are available for anyone to use or perform, without having to pay royalties or deal with lawyers.”