Words!

"He didn't even ask her name, you know. He just pointed to the one he liked. The rest was understood."

Nice piece. The last graf, though, makes me think of Pete Townshend's Hall of Fame induction speech for the Stones, which responds to your musing before you even made it: "Guys, don't try to grow old gracefully; it wouldn't suit you."

Yeah, well, he's dead. What does he know?

IIIII WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM LIONEL HUTZ!

The real question I have is, why would you have a show called "Beauty and the Beast," and then cast Linda frakkin' Hamilton as "Beauty?"

It wasn't low production values that made the vocal on "Heartbreak Hotel" echoey — the engineers at RCA were trying to duplicate Sam Phillips' vocal reverb technique ("slapback") and couldn't figure out how he did it — so they finally gave up and made Elvis sing it in the studio's stairwell.

Glad to See Some Gless Love
Especially since, through all of the anti-Maddie-isms we bandy about 'round here, it all too often goes unnoticed just how good Sharon Gless is at playing her. There are moments scattered throughout the show, even before this one, where she's truly sublime.