'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the American psyche were totalizing. Women were inferior to men because, for 'Playboy,' they were scenery -… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But he would… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
If Judge Steven T. O'Neill sent Mr. Cosby away for the rest of his life, that sentence couldn't undo what he's convicted of having… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind,… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I like Rob Morgan in 'Mudbound.' Most of the attention being paid to this movie has focused on Rachel Morrison's cinematography and Mary J.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation. — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I don't see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of ignore, which… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case, 'somewhere' is… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Suddenly, stories of abuse and harassment are being believed; abusers and harassers are being toppled. Yet, at the same time, one of the top… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
