Netflix's Rebecca

I say go for it. Personally I have several movies that I LOVED the original and was very apprehensive about having an adaptation made but when i saw the adapted version loved I too. In the case of Far From the Madding Crowd i thought the newer version was superior to the old one (which i still loved BTW).

Not a big fan of AH so I don't know if I'll catch this one, but I do think there shouldn't be anyone pooh-poohing it being made.

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I had to search to see what AH had said and I think though it is a little dumb to go after his fellow actors I wouldn't say his remarks were insensitive and in some sense I agree with him. If there is something I hate from some popular BC's fans accounts is that that they try to make each death of a celebrity something related to BC. When Hawking died it was all about BC playing him -they use a pic of BC as Hawking instead of a pic of SH - BC meeting SH, BC giving to the charity, etc. With Stan Lee it was the same.

I don't think some actors/people posted their pictures with SL to make the death about themselves. I'm sure some did.

Because they were all posting photos with Stan , too! So if celebrities were being insensitive for doing it they were, too. (Someone ironically asked him if it was right when she posted a photo of her with her late grandmother on Facebook when she died!)

I understand what he wanted to say and as you said, probably that was the case with some celebrities but the generalization wasn’t good. Also he committed the error of answering directly to critics. And with critics, I mean random people on Twitter.

But agreed it was just a faux pass not something really awful.

About the movie, I thought that maybe they will do a some kind of preppy version of the book. That would be original, I imagine. And could explain AH casting! I’m not kidding! I kind of think it sound interesting if that’s the case. I’m still thinking he isn’t very mysterious, tho.

I saw his tweet about Stan Lee right after he posted it. I thought it was really nasty of him to criticize how people chose to honour SL’s memory, and his response to the replies was even nastier. Posting selfies with with Stan Lee is no different from tweeting something like “Spider-Man changed my life” - people find some personal connection.

I’ve been to far too many funerals in the past few years, and it seems to be common practice to have a display of photos of the deceased. My mother disapproves because she thinks it’s wrong to make light of the death by showing photos of people laughing and having fun. Now they even have videos and slide shows playing, much to my mother’s horror!

At my uncle’s funeral about ten years ago, the display set up by his family had the usually photos of my uncle over the years - with his wife, children, grandchildren and siblings, including my father. My uncle had dozens of nieces and nephews, but the only one who made it into the display was me! It was a photo of me, aged seven, posing with my aunt and uncle. I remembered when it was taken but I had never seen that photo before. It really meant a lot to me to see it - so yes, it became all about me at my uncle’s funeral. Armie Hammer would have been very angry with me!