Topknot McGee is excellent. Have an upvote.

Nah, my bet is on Jorah somehow surviving. While I suspect that he will end up sacrificing himself or being killed eventually, I don't think it'll happen this week.

continue…. and now, gently apply the hon—

Oh, yes you do… and do it slowly and softly….

I, frankly, was disappointed when the CGI version of Burgess Meredith showed up. And giving him full frontal nudity? That was just totally unnecessary.

The Oddsmaker seems to run odds like Donnie Two-Scoops used to run his casinos.

I'm not sure Don-Don would know what a duck's bill looks like.

MSW was a huge hit, esp at this point. It was also seen as the standard-bearer for a new trend, Senior TV. (Both ways: TV for seniors, but also TV focused on seniors.) Plus, it did something much more systematically than other shows did at the time — it regularly gathered a lot of former movie stars, character…

Will Harris, who sometimes still does Random Roles and other pieces around here, brought my attention earlier this evening to something which I had totally forgotten: the live 2000 TV film of Fail Safe. I hardly needed to watch something more mood-depressing, but the cast was just so good: George Clooney, Brian…

Well, ISIS itself, not so much, as far as I know; but, more broadly, Spain has a problematic history with the Muslim world, especially after Spain booted out the Moors and later the Moriscos. We tend to forget now how much of an overlap there used to be between Spanish/Iberian and Arabic/Muslim cultures.

On the one hand, the premise sounds and interesting, the cast looks good, and I very much like the idea of a film that lets Lois Smith strut her acting-stuff.

I was just adding that caveat….

It helps to appreciate that James is to Rupert as Ivanka is to Donnie, with all of the implications thereto, save for one: I doubt Rupert ever got 'tingly' down there thinking about his kid.

Thing is, Dubya might've been perfectly good — and maybe even happy— as a used car salesman. I can imagine that.

Without wealth, he'd have been the poster-boy for Mescaline and why you don't f*cking do it.

And, remember, he knows more than his generals, too…

Interviewer: So, Senator, in light of these statements, what do you intend to do?

I dunno, advocating mass murder has to be in the top five even of shit Tr*mp has said. Well, publicly, at least….

Yes, but you have taste. :D

Not that MTV would have the audience demand for it, but a Van Morrison Unplugged would be interesting, especially if he dug out some of the great Astral Weeks, Moondance, Veedon Fleece, Into the Music and St. Dominic's Preview material. By the time it aired, it could coincide with the 50th anniversary of Astral Weeks.