Is that “Roma” as in Romany/Gypsies, or Roma as in Italy?

The uncle of a friend of mine is a prolific actor with an imdb list as long as your arm, including 3 pix with Tom Hanks, but I wouldn’t recognize him if I saw him.

Personally, when I die I HOPE that people I know will cry, or feel bad that they weren’t nicer to me. Then my loved ones can get together, drink tea, play Motown, share stories about my foibles, and after 3 weeks life will go on as if I never existed, which is as it should be.

This is very true. Having lost both parents and 2 husbands, most of them sooner than should have been, I have found that grief can be like the flu: you feel fine, then it comes in and ovewhelms you and you can’t remember ever feeling well, and then it goes away and you feel normal again, until the next visit. Which is…

How much privilege did this guy have to begin with? Nobody knows. Assume he had a high school education and got drafted into the military - not a heck of a lot.

He had done some scenery-chewing before tha, such as in “Magic” or even Othello.

Yeah, I was fond of him, but after a while I just wanted to beat him with his cane.

He wasn’t a villain, but a man trapped in a marriage with a wife he loathed, and helpless to do anything but make snarky comments.

I get him a little mixed up with Scott cohen, who I first saw in a Passat car commercial as an Everyman dad, but he seems to have played nothing but bad guys and creeps. I bet Rudd would enjoy that.

Before it even premiered I was turned off by “The OC”, which seemed like it would be a good successor to “Roswell” or previous hot teen show, just by the arrogance of its title. I knew Peter Gallagher was playing a probation officer - was OC an acronym for some law enforcement profession, like PI, DA, CO? No, it stood…

If I’d been 13 then I would have considered it!

So does “All Access” mean “all access” to everyone except people who can’t watch on a computer?

It’s the cape, too - the swirling black bulk of it. Long ago I read an article about Ayn Rand in which her protagonists are described as “always walking as if trailing a long cape behind them”.

I haven’t done this with Russian, but before I went to Greece I practiced with Berlitz “Greek for Travellers” for 6 weeks and it was a big help. Also the locals appreciated that I was making an effort to communicate in their language. Be prepared with a host of standard phrases and questions (e.g. “Where is the…

Rin Tin Tin! He was a huge star in the silent era. Also Terry, who played Toto, had a respectable screen career.

Pshaw! It’s vintage!

That’s about right. My husband was an anthropologist and worked for the FUNAI in the Seventies in the same Brazilian state as this solitary man. As late as 1980 he was the first white man allowed into one of the villages. The people knew who “civilizados” were, they just wanted them to stay away, with good reason.…

Your grandmother’s advice to “Never write anything down that you don’t want the whole world to see” is more true today than ever. 

I wonder how often archaeologists say a little prayer for the souls of the people they find...

The technical term is “coprolites”.