Anyone ever watch old episodes of "The Firing Line"? Though I'm about as liberal as you can get, I have a lot of respect for William F. Buckley, because of the civility with which he engaged in discourse. Apart from one, notorious encounter with Gore Vidal, he always remained polite, calm, let his opponents make…

Julianne Nicholson on, well, everything. I had high hopes for her on "Masters of Sex," but then, of course, they made her character terminally ill. God. Dammit.

Maybe the show will inject a bit of reality and kill Mike off via a massive infarction you know is coming. Then it really CAN be the Melissa McCarthy show. Two birds with one stone!

I'd suggest another scene from "Before Midnight." The car conversation, shot as a single take.

Man when fellows like him die…he could've been a 110 years old, and it still would've been a damned tragedy. Such memories, such experiences, such rich roles. He's one of the few people out there that still inspires this post-millenial, irony addled snarker to wax sentimental. Because his work was so damned good.

Well that's still pretty impulsive. She could've gotten severance, or at least negotiated a positive reference in exchange for a "resignation." But instead she essentially said, "Screw you guys, Imagoinhome."

Or to use the shopworn gag of: character says something, cut to scene that contradicts what that character says cut to the character being flustered as they are caught in the lie. Humor and hopefully Emmy's follow.

Token black female was a Republican…so clearly that wasn't going to work, because what's up with that?

Well of course. Because as we all know returning soldiers are always welcomed home from service with good jobs, affordable healthcare, and needed mental health therapy. Because we'd be a pretty awful nation if we just thought of our troops on Veteran's Day.

However she'll only appear for two episodes and then be hastily written off.

When I first read this, I thought we were getting that Huell spinoff…

Night is terrific. I think more schools should also assign Maus. I think the graphic novel approach to be ideally suited to reaching young readers.

It's still the most disturbing holocaust film I've seen (will all due credit to "Shoah" which is less disturbing than it is intensely sad), and made a far greater impact than Schindler's List, which for all its realism still holds the holocaust at arm's length by seeing the story largely through the perspective of a…

I agree. The Anne Frank story has always been, I think, a rather safe Holocaust story, because it largely takes place in one place of relative comfort, and conveniently ends with the diary, so it doesn't have to show the audience all the nasty stuff like Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. It is a story that lets the…

Not to mention when you reach that age, you need far less lebensraum. A little condo with its own kitchen and a stand up bathtub will do.

All he can do is dial and yell.

I'm glad you mentioned that. Something seemed off about the whole spatial setting and the physics of it. That billboard seemed way too high and way too far. You need some serious loft and distance. I certainly don't feel likeI could make that shot, and I played baseball.

I'd add that the talking heads don't work AT ALL. This has become such an overused staple now…it's gone from being functional (The Office) to vestigial (Parks & Rec) to non-essential (Modern Family) to downright "The fuck?" It serves no functional purpose apart from being a transparent attempt on NBC's part to…

25 honest, 70 emotional manipulation and 05 bashing the gays and the Jews.

And now he'll never get old and he'll never die…though he'll be forever stricken with diabeetus…along with Tom Hanks