Renée Fleming: Christmas in NY will have some pledge breaks, so no peaking at NBC. And as long as you're recommending one pledge fest for quality, how about one for sheer spectacle?

Scarlett was a scribbler but too shy to sing on stage usually?? Or she had a solo act?? Gunner was in Avery's band??

Yep.

Jay S., Can I suggest moving FJ wrong responses down to where the correct response is?

Have to fill out form 86/007 for each of them.

In 1953, Geisel visited Japan where he met and talked with its people and witnessed the horrific aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. He soon started to rethink his anti-Japanese vehemence. So he issued an apology in the only way that Dr. Seuss could. He wrote a children’s book. Horton Hears a Who!, published in…

Question is whether they have the personality to branch out or they just stick with the script. Neil Young, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan all tried crazy stuff when they could have coasted on their somewhat manufactured images. And sometimes the oddball stuff was kinda crappy. Good. What do you think about Robert Plant going…

Not easy having gangrene.

You're so vain, etc., etc.

Whatever the question's premise is, I posit you are begging it rather than acting as a responsible member of society or its salubrious rebellion. Or however that works. Carry on, carry on wayward sun.

"Bane," yes, but you didn't similarly address the blatant misuse of the phrase "begs the question" in the squib on State of Affairs in the article.

Getting out-danced by John Travolta in Hairspray the musical movie.

Married with Children was the morality breaker, two years earlier. Simpsons shorts were on Tracey Ullman at the same time, but it was Married that was the public face of Fox's rude, crude, and socially unacceptable money-making machine.

Unless one of the main actors does a Cosby. A secondary actor doing a Kramer is evidently OK. Syndication is big business, I wonder what kind of insurance they have for this stuff.

It's like Mardis Gras on the radio.

At the nudist colony, it was an all day cheese plate with Asti Spumante.

She was a real figure in Sparky's life. A scene from the early harsh days of Peanuts:

I'm expecting the Flying Nun.

It's known for hiring comedians to play judges (I think).

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