I really wish Norma could have elaborated a little more.  I'm a gay man with a lot of female friends who are quite sexual, and we talk about sex a lot.  But I've never quite heard this theory of how a woman's brain changes due to sex.  I've seen it happen due to the specific circumstances/dynamic with a certain…

Damn, I figured this would happen ever since he had to cancel the Australia portion of his tour last year.  Lucky for us in North America that he did tour, however, so we could get a chance to see him one more time, or for the first (and only) time.  I almost didn't go because I thought it might be weird, since his…

I really loved the first season of this talk show when she had civilian guests like her producer, the hilarious Michelle Collins, and Meredith, the roommate of Kathy's assistant.  I felt like Bravo had basically given her a lump of money and all she needed to do was make 10 episodes.  There were some really wild…

I love this movie exponentially more each time I see it.  In my experience, the film is so idiosyncratic that people have to see it once just to understand what it is and what it's doing.  At which point they say, "Eh, I thought it was okay."  The trick is to get them to see it again, and they realize that the film is…

I could have died happy last night.  Almost all of my favorite townspeople (and townsanimals) were in the two episodes.   Lil' Sebastian (okay, Bucky, but still…), Champion, DJ Rhoomba, Ethel Beavers, Perd Hapley, Joan Callamezzo, and Shawna Mulwae-Tweep.  Only an appearance by Marsha Langman would have made me feel…

I love Ann for being the subject of Leslie's strange impulses toward her that contradict her feminine ideals, such as trying to whore her out when they are stuck in a jam, or how Leslie wanted to control her reproductive rights a few episodes ago, or in this episode when Leslie said Ann was too pretty to need a sense…

The reaction shot of the lookalikes really tickled me.

Every two years the UCLA Film & Television Archive has its Festival of Preservation.  It's a great way to see hidden gems or forgotten films.  Unfortunately, many of these never make it to home video or broadcast because they are not seen as attractive to enough consumers.  This is despite the VOD option.  I have seen…

I did catch Eagles' The Letter last time it was on, but I didn't love it as much as I thought I would.  I'm not wild about the Davis version either, though.  Missed the early cartoons!

It's Summer Under the Stars where I get in trouble with my husband.  He comes home to discover 15 Rita Hayworth movies have suddenly appeared on our DVR.  "You've gone berserk!" he says.  "No, Joan Crawford day is at the end of the month," I say.

Aretha (Franklin) was the queen of parenthetical song titles, in both her original recordings and her covers.

Aretha (Franklin) was the queen of parenthetical song titles, in both her original recordings and her covers.

Don't forget:
I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
(Do the) Mashed Potatoes
Hot (I Need to be Loved, Loved, Loved)
Get Up Offa That Thing (Release the Pressure)

I love 31 Days of Oscar because it means I don't have to DVR anything, since I've seen most of it before.  Gives me a chance to catch up on other things, like the mostly sub-par pre-Codes from that Una Merkel day last fall. 

I'm glad someone posted on this, because it's not the second week in a row, it's the fifth week in a row that they've shown her films.  I think they saved the best for last!  (I'll watch any of her pre-Code films but the titles are usually the best parts)

Yes, I will totally agree with manbehindthecurtain that they are all above average for network television and that I'm not entirely clear on what happened during which season.  ;)

The impromptu performance of "Country Roads" always kills me in "Whisper of the Heart"
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Directly following his bloodbath "The Wild Bunch", Sam Peckinpah directed a scrappy little western about an illiterate and uncouth guy (Jason Robards) who builds a way station in the desert.  Somehow he convinces prostitute Stella Stevens to move in with him, and we are treated to the only musical number in…

I haven't seen "The Fisher King" in twenty years, but I think about that scene at least once a week.

I get choked up every time.