@ham: thanks
@wolfman: fair enough.

You can't dismiss Clay so easily; he wasn't making fun of misogyny but embodying it. Yes, it was a character, but not one which in any way was constructed to wink at or undermine the underlying content.

Did Abby Elliott appear last night? Nasim Pedrad?

And I love the details, even when I can check off the references being alluded to — my favorite being the "Hillary 4 U and Me" homage. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Time that could have been spent featuring clips from the films and performances nominated in the categories people cared about. Or, gosh, restoring the honorary awards to the main broadcast.

waste of time
They shouldn't waste 20+ minutes of airtimes on songs no one knows or cares about. "Blame Canada" was fun, but this is nonsense.

But it isn't a "crime" and he isn't a monster — more like a misdemeanor offense, and after all, he's doing it to draw attention to date rape as a phenomenon — but Hurt does just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance… Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about…

If you're Judd Apatow, you just give your real-life wife all the unlikable qualities. (Well, you do that in Knocked Up, and then make up for it in Funny People by sanctifying her and her ass.)

And the film's not afraid to make Aaron truly unlikable near the end — "Six years from now, I'll be back here with my wife and two kids. And I'll see you, and one of my kids will say, "Daddy, who is that?" And I'll say it's not nice to point at single fat women."

from a lawyer's perspective
This episode was infuriating for two reasons: (1) I have no idea what this "PAC" is that Peter both doesn't control yet is wholly dependent on. Some kind of Independent Expenditure committee, maybe, but that'd be wholly separate from the campaign's own fundraising. The whole thing was…

If you count honorary Tony Awards, Midler's just an O away from EGOT.

@LCB: It's a resurgence from THE PROPOSAL forward in terms of the ubiquity, but you're absolutely correct (a) that she never retired and (b) that she always plays against type. Hell, look at her work on BOSTON LEGAL.

Betty White
I'm as tired of the career resurgence as everyone — it peaked with the SNL visit and has felt overblown and excessive since.

Wanda Sykes just finished a run as Miss Hannigan in the Philly burbs. I shit you not.

of the existing film adaptations
The Rob Marshall version for ABC is twelve times better than John Huston's film release — it's bouncier and livelier, and has Kathy Bates and Victor Garber being awesome.

I hope this means he and his dad won the upcoming Amazing Race season.

based on my experience …
1. The staff on a big-city DA's race is never that (a) large or (b) well-dressed.
2. Bringing in a SuperPAC as a client does not make you king of the world.

Welcome to Philadelphia
Does this mean we're getting print edition too, at last?

Ahem.
"I'm talking around the premise of Harry's Law, and that's because it's really just about the stupidest premise you'll hear of."

Chicken Soup debuted in September 1989. Wonder Years did have a post-SB rollout.