“At least in Diesel and The Rock’s case their characters were already at odds, Alicia Florrick (Margulies) Kalinda Sharma (Panjabi) were pals. Nothing says friendship like hating each other.”

It’s possible, but I doubt they’d ever completely write Diesel out of the series. I think it’s more likely they’d make a few more Hobbs & Shaw spin offs to sate their appetite for what The Rock is cookin’.

This sounds like it would be unbearable to me. I know that sounds totally negative, but it isn’t really meant that way. I find this sort of secondhand embarrassment almost physically painful to watch. Cringe comedies are just unwatchable for me.

When I was a kid I hated books that felt like they were working from a predetermined moralistic point of view. There was a whole bunch of Newbery Award winners where you could practically see the gears grinding. She had the good sense to know when to lay off, and that’s the kind of twist I liked from her books.

I was gonna say, I always thought Blume, even her more younger-aimed books was still a bit older-targeted than Cleary.

Exactly, he can excel at several things at one time!

Everyone is saying Morgan hates Markle because he’s racist. Really he hates her because he's an angry misogynist who is bitter that she chose hanging out with a handsome prince over his soggy ass.

When she turned 100, a reporter asked if she had any tips on how to live so long. She replied “I didn’t do it on purpose.”

At my school, Blume was the next step recommended by the librarian when you finished all of Cleary’s work.

Cleary really knew how kids think and how weird things can seem so important.  Ramona really wanting the Q after her name from being left out because she wasn’t a Jessica seems silly but it’s also so true.  :) 

Judy Blume was life lessons and growing up. Beverly Cleary was this is what it’s like to be a child.
I inhaled both.

Her books were the first that I ever encountered real girl characters: they weren’t moral warnings or models. They were awkward, wonderful, troublesome, unique, fully envisioned people. And they didn’t have to be pretty to matter or be worthy of notice.

I am (understandably I think) shocked she was still with us. Her books were an indelible part of growing up, particularly as I went to grade school just off the real Klickitat Street in Portland. Dear Mr. Henshaw was particularly important. Rest in Peace. I’m glad someone who gave so much of worth got to live so long.

she was absolutely terrific delivering her lines as Mallory

For what it’s worth, she was my cousin (on her mother’s side), and while I never got to know her well, in the interactions we did have she was always extremely sweet and gracious. I’ll miss her both as a person and as one of the funniest actresses I’ve ever seen.

She may not have gotten much of the Archer humor, but she was absolutely terrific delivering her lines as Mallory—a tough-as-nails ex-spy/Parkiest of Park Avenue Upper East Side Karen.

I also love how in the Archer grand prix episode, she informed the maître d’, “This isn’t my first Grand Prix, you know.” That was one…

A lot could be said about Chrissy being famous BECAUSE of her twitter, though. Prior to twitter, she was a very pretty model and I don’t think anyone thought of her outside of that, but she was so funny and (mostly) relatable on Twitter that she built her whole brand out of “that funny girl you want to be friends with…

I would really love a Munch visit to Brooklyn 99, for a Belzer/Braugher reunion (from Homicide life on the street). I guess that won’t happen, but the guy has appeared on almost every other show on network TV

I was originally going to do all the L&O shows in one list, then decided I like living.

In one of the most scathing things TVLine has ever written (which, admittedly, is not a huge category), one of the writers took the actresses to task for being unprofessional. Which I completely agree with. It taints (*giggle*) my enjoyment of the show when I know that Julianna Margulies is a monster diva in real…