On Chris Matthews’s MSNBC rape-pill joke Herewith my review of Chris Matthews’ rape-pill joke, performed for MSNBC staffers while they were setting up for an interview with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a firehouse in Des Moines during the lead-up to the Democratic Primary. …

Dear Matt, I just went on Twitter and found that you’ve been talking about sexual predators again, this time to Business Insider, in the context of promoting your new movie. That’s fine. Maybe I’ll deal with what you said today tomorrow or later this week. But right now, I want…

Could someone please invent a sexual harassment app? I mean an app for keeping track of the revelations about sexual misconduct, sexual predators, and hardcore sexual abuse that, to borrow a phrase from His Girl Friday, keep rolling out like oranges? You’d need a feature that would allow you to…

On Mamet’s “Oleanna” and how he and William H. Macy teach acting — Some years ago, in the middle of an acting class he was giving, the playwright David Mamet launched into a brief send-up of 1930s telephone exposition. He was talking about the evolution of style, explaining why the approach to acting that he and William H. Macy have always espoused is…