Quick quiz: how many times did the AV Club refer to any of the last administration's NSAs -James Jones, Tom Donilon, Susan Rice - as being 'Obama's lackey'? Ha ha!! - it's a trick question because they never did. (I haven't checked this to make sure, but as assumptions go it ranks with, "Is my nose still where I…

And with this, Olivia de Havilland is now the only surviving star of Hollywood's Golden Age. Some might consider Doris Day and Kirk Douglas to be in that category, but their fame was postwar whereas OdH was A-list from the mid-30s.

In his superb biography of the director, Joseph McBride says that when Ford was an old man he used to ask Woody Strode to massage his back.  Strode and his family used to stay in Ford's house apparently just so he'd close at hand.  Nothing more overt than that, but there were some whispers about why Ford was spending…

See also The Descendants: George runs down a road, George runs along a beach, George hides behind a hedge, etc.

The Lighter Side Of…Musical Careers That Are Going Down the Tubes

Any more?  They've both been closed.

All-time Bad Advice Nomination: In the the late 80s when Whitney Houston released her second album, I remember that Q Magazine felt it was too tame, too conservative and that the singer herself too squeaky clean. "Loosen up, why dontcha?" the review advised. Well, she did. Great move.

Two, three enough.

So many tributes to his journalism, polemics and wit, but I'll always remember him for this limerick, which I heard him recite at the Hay Festival a few years back:

Then you should see Les Valseuses, aka Going Places, as it features Miss Fossey's tits being pawed and slavered over by Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere.  Of course she was in her 20s by then and stacked, so it might not be what you were looking for.