Yes, Inslee has been doing a great job and really shortchanged on national coverage.

Four performances in which the star herself had the necessary megawattage to play a famous superstar - aside from the aforementioned Bette Midler in The Rose, which is the ne plus ultra of rockstar performances. These are all about earlier jazz and pop stars, but the musical genre isn’t ever really the issue; listed…

YES! YES! YES! And the worst offender right now is MSNBC (the NYT isn’t even as bad). In spite of having some of the world’s largest production facilities in Los Angeles (Universal City is 20 times the size of Rockefeller Center) and newsgathering organizations; the TV and Radio KNBCs, which both share vast…

This is precisely what I’m describing as a disproportionate use of the imagery by the media. Equating a few displays of cops kneeling against the thousands of innocent people being teargassed or shot - as if it’s all a balanced depiction is absurd. I was simply focussing on the media’s culpability in propagating this…

They’re an attempt by a few sympathetic (or strategic) cops to set themselves apart from the overwhelming numbers of cops, sheriffs, Natl guardsmen behaving atrociously. Everyone sees the imagery of the worst police behavior; so some more evolved cops are trying to make a statement in contrast. - or perhaps…

In my 1970s Maine days, there was no vaping - nor was there such a thing as a non-smoker! Not in Maine.

And even the Maine Lobster Festival* (a fond memory of childhood summers in Maine) is cancelled.

Eve also wins the “room raters” award in that fabulous London mansion. Zounds, she’s living in the house from the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs!

I happened to watch few minutes of today’s show and, well, many years ago I met her at an industry event and was struck by how beautiful she and her brother were in person. - better than they looked on tv (which is saying a lot). Over the years she’s clearly had some “maintenance”, but nothing ever quite so extreme as…

Of course. I forgot to check my cancel culture handbook (and it might be last year’s edition; updates come monthly)

I said tea. Maybe scones if they’re feeling peckish, but that’s all on the first visit.

I tell ya, you can’t turn a corner in LA anymore without running into hot Brits named Harry. (And he - or the other one- can drop by my place any time. I’ll make the tea!)

Ratso Rizzo. “I’m walkin’ here!”

Replace it with a statue of Betty Rizzo. There are worse things they could do.

The significant thing about the man who proactively sought the right to torture prisoners is that even a son of a bitch* like him can recognize someone even more evil., and maybe he represents to whatever shreds remain of the ”country club Republican” crowd that they must reject Trumpism.

I’m actually posting far less than I used to; just being more selective and then writing longer screeds.

Welcome to Hollywood. This has been going on since Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg in the 1930s!

Katzenberg and Toth founded and invested in this curiously bad idea, but you’re leaving out the CEO, the person who is actually responsible for signing off on both overpaying talent deals and triggering low level layoffs, and that CEO is none other than the face of income inequality herself: MEG WHITMAN! 

I liked that one, but he kept it very narrow (time and cost, no doubt). I suppose that makes it a success in the "leave 'em wanting more" category.

Perhaps breaking the fast with a “fast break”?