"Christmas" has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R. Also an I and an S;
also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at
the beginning.

May the Yule log slip from your fire and burn your house down!

Glad to see Eva Green getting a nod for Penny Dreadful; she's the heart and soul of the show, especially in season 2, and she's amazing.

I can't think of an actress today who can hold a candle to Jean Arthur in the romantic comedy leading lady field. Arthur is smart, funny, perceptive, and warm; strong without being strident, self confident, assured, and doesn't take any crap from anyone. She always manages to be at least the equal of her male co-star,…

He's a little too old now, but had someone made a film about Harry Langdon a few years back, Teller would have been the perfect person to play him, looks-wise. http://bit.ly/1RENvp7

I'm still shocked that the director of A Christmas Story directed Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things back in 1972. Mind you, Children is great fun once the undead start popping up from their graves like toast from a toaster, but it's still a bit of a stretch from that to Christmas Story.

'You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned' would certainly fit the soundtrack.

Sorry, I won't play Mackers. Although I like the version where the understudy has to go on after the director fires the insufferably priggish leading man.

My son (now 18) loves many of the same movies and TV shows I do, and inherited my love for catchphrases, so for years has been using favourite lines for everyday situations. There can be the odd glitch, however. He first watched the Steve Coogan series Dr Terrible's House of Horrible with me when he was 9, and one day…

There's a new BBC TV adaptation of And Then There Were None coming up soon.

Can we get Eva Green in there, as the Countess? Plus Jean Dujardin as Pierre.

My first thought was Mirren for the Russian princess, as she's Russian herself. But then I thought maybe Angela Lansbury for the part. She stole the show in Death on the Nile.

I was at the British film studio where the Ealing Film archive is, doing some research there about 20 years ago, and on my way out passed a building where a number of actors in costume were milling around having coffee. It turns out they were filming an episode of Poirot, and there was David Suchet in full costume. I…

Branagh isn't my image of Poirot either; but then I bet no one who saw Albert Finney in Tom Jones thought that less than a decade later he'd be an excellent Poirot.

Played Mrs. Pearce, Henry Higgins's housekeeper, in a local theatre production of My Fair Lady; there's a matinee Sunday as well, and performances next weekend. Margot Kidder's brother John plays Henry (the family is from our small town in British Columbia), and he's amazing. I've acted with John in three previous…

Dinsdale!

My favourite quote from Deadwood.

"Fans speculated that one of those mysterious snipers would later be
revealed to be Moran. And while that hasn’t happened (yet), the show did
later add a character named Mary Morstan and since her last name is
similar to Moran, fans wondered if she was a gender-swapped version of
the character."

I was hoping Morgan's road to calm would result from him swallowing The Art of Peace, like Manny and The Little Book of Calm in Black Books. "When you're feeling under pressure, do something different. Roll up your sleeves, or eat an orange."

His comments on Alan Sepinwall's episode-by-episode guide to Deadwood are wonderful; he'd regularly chime in with inside information about the series and insights into how he felt about his character, the other characters, the show, and more.