Sacha Baron Cohen on suspicion that the calls for a boycott of his new film, 'Ali G: Who Iz I?,' are tied to his past support of Israel: "Well, I haven’t said anything about Israel. I think people are being portrayed as things that they are not on social media and it’s problematic. We are in a world where people can’t distinguish between facts and lies, and that’s something that I’ve spent a lot of the last few years trying to fix. For example, I co-founded a group called Stop Hate for Profit with the NAACP and Color of Change and the ADL and certain other civil rights groups to stop the misinformation and incitement of racism on social media. So, I’m not surprised that prominent Jews are being targeted. I knew that this was going to happen. The level of organization is surprising, but this is a trend of Jews being portrayed in certain ways and trying to be silenced." bit.ly/4BpPgkz

‘REVENGE OF THE SITH’ (2005) is full of paintings. Anakin on Mustafar, stuck on the low ground and staring up at Obi-Wan, has the same look as Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel - Lucifer right after he’s thrown out of heaven, crying and furious at the same time. The Plagueis scene at the opera is basically a Caravaggio: two faces lit out of the dark while Palpatine sells the dark side. (The blue-faced guy outside the box is George Lucas - his only Star Wars cameo.) And the lava isn’t all CGI. Mount Etna erupted in 2002 while the film was being made, so Lucas sent a crew to shoot it. That real eruption is in the background of the duel.

Peak white boy music like this scared the hell out of the powers that be. That's when they started pushing the rap music.

Shane Gillis, grandson of a 33rd Degree Mason, said the f-word on SNL on purpose to traumatize the viewers, thereby making them more susceptible to mind control. Saturn’s hexagon doth overfloweth with loosh, and Gillis gets a handsome paycheck. Two clowns. One circus.

Not all heroes have necks