Yeah, from what I’ve read, they hired the actors first and then built the characters around them:

“Just as”? The removal of the episodes happened three weeks ago. It was even covered on this site and discussed at length:

Yeah, sorry for the duplicate. VBurn’s comment wasn’t showing when I made mine; looks like they beat me by 2 minutes.

That was my first reaction too, but the decision was 7-2 (!). Kagan and Breyer voted with the majority. So even if Clinton had been able to appoint two justices, we likely would have been stuck with the same terrible decision.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Please. Zack Snyder’s movies don’t have any heart.

No Democrat, no matter their politics, was going to run against an establishment Republican like Tipton.

Those are the nominees for films released in 1974, for the awards given in 1975. The Supporting Actor Oscar nominees for 1975 films were:

(Sorry--I’m not sure why the comment showed up as a reply to yours instead of to the article. I must have hit the wrong button. I erased it and moved it to where it should have been.)

I don’t understand why they don’t just edit out those moments and let the rest of the episode(s) stand? They’re all fairly minor—the “two black swans” gag is a brief sight gag at the end of the episode (though I guess having Jenna and Paul say they’re going to dress as that, which is the climax of their plot, might…

(Sorry--I don’t know why this showed up as a reply to your comment instead of to the article.)

I believe he has a son and a daughter, not two daughters.

James Marsden appeared in the pilot episode, as a delivery guy who gave Maggie her first kiss (which got Fran in trouble and almost cost her the nanny gig). It was one of his first Hollywood gigs (maybe the very first).

This list doesn’t seem to be correct. I remembered 9 to 5 made over $100 million, and sure enough Wikipedia’s list has it at #2 for the year. (Plus, Kramer vs. Kramer was a 1979 release.)

This movie is godawful. Boy meets girl, boy drives girl out of business, girl decides, “Oh well!” 

I’m familiar with LA drivers. I’m also not foolish enough to rely on lazy stereotypes when there’s evidence to the contrary.

Or he was jaywalking in the middle of the street at 7:55 at night, popped out from between two parked cars so the first driver to hit him didn’t see him, was clipped by the first car, fell to the street, and the second driver was distracted by a bunch of pedestrians trying to get him/her to stop which instead caused…

Treem sounds awful. I mean, this:

Not according to the Academy’s website. Maura Tierney received a nomination for Supporting Actress in a Drama, the show’s sole nomination.

An AvClub article from back when it happened that’s worth a read:

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the actual article before, but my first thought was...Shauna Malwae-Tweep didn’t get the scoop? Damn, she never could win.