The Spectaculars.

Good time of year to watch The Dead with John Huston's daughter flinging herself onto the bed to sob while her atheist husband humble brags about being all un-artistic at the window. Why? A holiday party for adults! On that Catholics, Anglicans and self-pitying atheists can all agree.

???pantheistic, baby???

The $1000 dinner. A coupla letters in the Washington Post magazine from caterers make the point that it's hard to make a profit catering a dinner for eight. I can imagine these plutocrats demand a lot of attention, so what, you need six staff at, what $100 each, then driving, food, taxes, insurance, rent, etc. And…

AMcB had some kind of absurdist thing going on too, which I think was new at the time. Before Scrubs, etc. It wasn't just a Flockhart fest, though more and more it was marketed that way? Might have been groundbreaking in the now old sex-positive thing, eh, you from Boston eh, does this comment have any truth. I'm…

The NFL is too dependent on quarterbacks. Need to get rid of the forward pass rule now! What's funny? Safeties and drop kicks!

I'm amazed Community is in syndication, over the air, where I live. All I ever hear is how weak it was!

Sweaty eighth grade boys have better things to do.

For the commie take on the Mongols (and on the Yermans, religion, servile despotism, etc.), see Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. Fantastic movie, music.

According to Hank Stuever in the Wash. Post, the show is crap with a boring lead, a good Khan, ridiculous fights, and tons of youthful female nudity.

Robert Caro is crying into his Apple Jacks.

Correction, Todd Haynes fooled me I think about Nixon playing for the Carpenters (with Willy Brandt in attendance! Ich bin pianist!). They played at the White House though, and Henry Kissinger brought yet another super hot babe, seen at 6:37: a second string, gorgeous actress, Samantha Eggar. https://www.youtube.com/wa…

He also played piano for Karen Carpenter. (And better yet, Pearl Bailey. Both at the White House.)

Reminds me of that line in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story… "the phrasing." Which I guess was a joke on Sinatra.
It's in the fake interviews section, just after the "reactionary values" woman, at 18:13.
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I remember defending Clare the roo Bowen's accent as Scarlett. But some of the other accents, eesh per usual.

Pop trope discussion: "on the nose." Earlier this year I noticed people writing about "on the nose." I figured it came out of fiction or script classes. Lo and behold today I'm reading the NYT from 1990, and it's a Frank Sinatra-ism!

Gingham Style - a czhecked fabric which is not scottish.

Walken looking pretty tired at the end of that tap dance.

She changed costumes for every song (PBS pledge fest). Bennett's right though, she got some decent ideas about how to sing jazz. And I he's a game player with his current voice… So it's more or less Krauss and Plant?

Classical musicians seem to know about using beta blockers to block stage fright. I guess not Scarlett.