Loved Gregory's 'Rhetorical!'

Or offer to bake him cookies.

Carol Burnett won a Grammy!

For some reason I can't open any links in any Disqus comments; I get a 'cannot be displayed' page. Can you spell out the link? All I see is https://docs.google.com/docume…

Being a 50-year-old woman doesn't necessarily mean you automatically look like a dried-out meth addict with a botched facelift. I'm a 53-year-old woman, and while I'm nothing special, I look at least 15 years younger than Conway, facially. Heck, my mom turns 75 in a week, and she looks younger than Conway.

I've only seen it here - on THE AV CLUB - because the show doesn't air on the west coast for another 20 minutes. So according to my timeline, we're all famous before it happens! Yay!!

So the SNL writers read/are aware of the AV Club.

I was born when Mary Poppins opened in 1964, but as I was less than a year old when it opened, I very much doubt I saw it during its first run.

Not that I recall. . . .

Sgt. Stedenko - Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams - was (slightly misnamed) after one of my dad's undercover drug cop colleagues, Abe Snedenko. Dad and Abe were both in the RCMP, and both worked in downtown Vancouver in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when things were nowhere near as bad as they are now, drug-wise, but still…

I think Downton episodes were trimmed a bit for their PBS showing in season 1; I'd already seen the UK versions, and while I didn't rewatch the entire season when it aired Stateside, I do remember some cuts (the bit where O'Brien and Thomas try to frame Bates for stealing snuffboxes wasn't there, for example).

I wrote an editorial for this week's newspaper (I edit the one-person weekly newspaper in our small Canadian town) about Trump's first week in office, and said in the story's 'deck' (the piece that runs below the headline and before the story) 'Anger management issues, poor impulse control, no grasp of consequences:…

Avalon is a stunning movie. I haven't watched it in years, but there's an almost unbearably poignant scene where one of the second-generation families gathers to eat Thanksgiving dinner (I think) in front of their new TV set, the big multi-generation dinners the family used to have being a thing of the past. And the…

They're perfect at receptions as well; they have taste, a bit of a bite, last longer than a glass of wine (and are cheaper), and it takes a while to drink one, so you're not hammered by the time dinner is served, no matter how long the reception drags on.

I see they're not showing 1952's Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth, which is understandable (it's not a very good, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus has just announced it's closing). On the other hand, there's a kind of gaudy, over the top quality about it that is kind of appealing,…

Alex Jennings has quickly become one of those British actors - like Timothy Spall, Toby Jones, and Rory Kinnear - whose name on something almost guarantees I'll watch it. Heck, I even watched (or rather skimmed through) iBoy on Netflix on Friday just because Kinnear was in it (he didn't disappoint, but I'm glad I just…

I live in a very small town (pop. 1600), and church lady food is everywhere, not just at funerals. The annual United Church bean supper is coming up soon; it'll be the 71st consecutive one, and two of the women who help out every year - sisters - have been to every single one. My mouth waters just thinking about the…

That's odd; I had an email earlier in the week from a journalism student in Vancouver who wanted to interview me - as the one person at a one-person newspaper - about what it was like, and journalism in general, for an article he was writing for the college magazine. Must be something in the air. And it was odd being…

Yes, Academy: you don't have to nominate Streep each year, no matter how much you liked her speech at the Golden Globes.

As I said on another thread, Rick Steves, the PBS travel show guy, has already donated $50,000 to the ACLU; he said he'd match sales on his website on inauguration day, which totalled $42,000, and upped it to a round $50 grand in light of what's happened in the last few days.