ATM1876 said:

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Diane Keaton joined in Woody's defense today:

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Urban Ag said:

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So I was in middle school from 85-88 and HS form 88-92 and in no way, shape, or form was it acceptable to 21+ year old guys to date middle school girls. And the only high school girls I can recall having boy friends out of high school were in cases where the boyfriend was older and graduated and moved on.

Geez, we even had a major incident when I was a freshman, where some senior guys allegedly had a pool for who would be first to sleep with a classmate of mine. Her dad somehow caught wind of it and proceeded to walk in to the locker room at the start of football practice and inform the team that slow death would be the result of anyone touching his daughter. Later that year the school board voted to move freshman in to the middle school as the age gap between freshman and seniors was deemed to wide.

Maybe I just lived around a bunch of prudes but grown men dating middle school aged kids would have been grounds for a jail cell if not vigilante justice.

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double aught said:

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That movie was fiction. Not to mention, it took place in the 70s, not the 20 years ago you spoke of.

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Geez, we even had a major incident when I was a freshman, where some senior guys allegedly had a pool for who would be first to sleep with a classmate of mine. Her dad somehow caught wind of it and proceeded to walk in to the locker room at the start of football practice and inform the team that slow death would be the result of anyone touching his daughter.

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double aught said:

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That movie was fiction. Not to mention, it took place in the 70s, not the 20 years ago you spoke of.

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but nothing, nothing, has taken on the mythic status of McConaughey's ageing, stoned, pink-jeaned, jailbait-groover in the Ted Nugent t-shirt or the timeless magnitude of the line, "I get older, they stay the same age." Linklater says he couldn't agree more.

Richard Linklater: I know. It was some combination of that script, and Matthew's character, and where we went with it that really was I felt it while we were shooting, that we had gone to some other level. But it's something familiar. In every town, I've had people all over the world tell me, like, 'Oh, in my town that guy's name was'

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bangobango said:

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double aught said:

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That movie was fiction. Not to mention, it took place in the 70s, not the 20 years ago you spoke of.

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It was fiction, you don't say?

And the movie came out in the 90s. It wasn't baby boomers who were watching that movie in the 90s, was it?

Y'all are looking so hard for something to get outraged about that you don't even read what is being said. Typical pearl clutching behavior.

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Urban Ag said:

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So I was in middle school from 85-88 and HS form 88-92 and in no way, shape, or form was it acceptable to 21+ year old guys to date middle school girls. And the only high school girls I can recall having boy friends out of high school were in cases where the boyfriend was older and graduated and moved on.

Geez, we even had a major incident when I was a freshman, where some senior guys allegedly had a pool for who would be first to sleep with a classmate of mine. Her dad somehow caught wind of it and proceeded to walk in to the locker room at the start of football practice and inform the team that slow death would be the result of anyone touching his daughter. Later that year the school board voted to move freshman in to the middle school as the age gap between freshman and seniors was deemed to wide.

Maybe I just lived around a bunch of prudes but grown men dating middle school aged kids would have been grounds for a jail cell if not vigilante justice.

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Disney Animation Sets Staff "Day of Listening" Amid Speculation Over John Lasseter's Fate

On Thursday, the staff of Disney Animation Studios will gather on the lot for what the company is calling a "Day of Listening," with a handful of human-resources professionals present to facilitate a discussion of workplace concerns.

The gathering, which Disney veterans say is unprecedented for the Burbank-based animation unit, comes as sources with ties to both Disney Animation and Pixar Animation Studios speculate that John Lasseter, who oversees both companies but has been on leave since November, will not return from what was characterized by Disney as a six-month "sabbatical." At the time, Lasseter, 61, acknowledged "painful" conversations and unspecified "missteps" in a memo to staff.

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Diggity said:

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I don't know if Thurman is now incoherent or the journalist is just a bad story teller, but that article was very hard to follow.

Quentin could possibly be a dick, but to presume he was intentionally going to hurt his muse because she was fighting with Harvey is preposterous.

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abileneag09 said:

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Hypothetical question:
If Tom Cruise left Scientology and denounced it, but as he did that the church released a bunch of stories that he'd sexually abused a bunch of girls, what would your reaction be?

At least part of me would assume that the church is making it up. And it's even possible that they set up situations to use as blackmail against him.

But even if there were a few true allegations thrown in there with the fake scientology ones, seeing him speak out against it as a horribly corrupt cult would earn a lot of forgiveness, i think. That organization is a messed up cult that ruins its members lives and I'd see him taking them down as some sort of plea bargain with the prosecutor.

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