That is a great photo. I think they had valets following them in real life unlike in the play.

Wow, I've never heard of that. Seems like the embodiment of "It takes a ton of talent to make something this bad."

The producers' (Bruce Paltrow was the show runner) commitment to realism might have doomed the show. The Carver players graduated high school at a fairly realistic rate and were replaced by new players/actors rather than hanging around until they were ridiculously overaged. But most of the well-liked young characters…

In addition to a Mt. Rushmore president, he also portrayed one widely regarded as one of the worst, Warren Harding in Camping with Henry and Tom. The play imagines a ruined camping trip for Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Harding.

She was tremendous in both roles. Her ironic campaign speech always fires me up.

PUMAs can be classified with The New Black Panthers in the category: "Supposed movements where the amount of Fox News segments exceeded the number of group members."

Wapner and Judy had been real judges. Ed Koch hadn't, but he had been an attorney and lawmaker in addition to being New York mayor for 12 years.

I think McCain won't criticize Palin because he feels bad about bringing her into the limelight. As the psychiatrist says in "Game Change," she had a son in Iraq, a pregnant teen daughter and a newborn with special needs. She was going through all kinds of turmoil and McCain's team took her word that she'd be able to…

A great example of LBJ's raw political skill and cleverness, even during chaotic moments, occurred on Air Force One before it took off from Dallas.

It's not? Oh, those must be flashbacks that frequently pop up in my brain.

Absolutely, it is an underrated treasure with tremendous performances starting with Gambon. It was also John Frankenheimer's last film and Sarah Paulson is in it briefly as Luci Baines Johnson.

I wonder if a film like Lillies of the Field would fit modern Christian film marketing. Both the Sidney Poitier character and the German nuns are faithful in their own way, but there aren't any miracles, unless you'd classify a "disparate people thrown together randomly who find they can help each other" plot in that…

At about 31:00 of this L.A. Law episode, there's a similar scene where Blair Underwood and Michele Greene play overworked associates who had been feuding with each other. Cramming late into the night, Underwood's character puts "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" on and they start dancing, with a more defined resolution.

If we get a scene with Jess and Gypsy bickering about auto repairs, I'll know they've been reading my diary.

That’s a great point and 42 does depict some the awful things Jackie Robinson had to face from teammates and opponents. Joe Louis and Jesse Owens were able to train mostly on their own or with whom they chose, which saved them from some overt hostility. However, I think the relative benefits flipped when their…

Whatever indignities that Jesse Owens suffered at the '36 Olympics were at least temporary. He spent the rest of his life struggling to collect even a fraction of what he had earned with his accomplishments. Starting almost immediately after the games ended, his amateur status was stripped by US officials because he…

Helen Martin also stole a bunch of laughs as Pearl, the elderly neighbor who made wisecracks while keeping track of the world from her apartment window.

The play they based "227" on was much more serious and the Lester character was having an affair with Sandra.

Delta and Jean Smart were gone by '92. It was originals Dixie Carter and Annie Potts along with Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks in the Suzanne/Charlene type roles, respectively.

I just love her in this routine from the 2013 Tonys where host Neil Patrick Harris needles her, Andrew Rannells and Megan Hilty about Broadway stars moving to TV series that got quickly canceled.
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