I got Hal Prince, by the glasses on his forehead. The other people went by pretty quickly for me to identify them, and I was in high school in the Sixties. I saw Sweet Charity when it came out, but it seemed rather limp even then.

Alas, by the time I learned the name Bob Fosse, from the movies referenced above, I had never heard of Gwen Verdon, and neither had most people who were going to the movies and too young to have been aware of her prime on Broadway.

I watched the clip with the sound off, and could not take my eyes off Verdon. I hope the dancing will be to snuff; doesn’t matter about the rest of it.

Just think: Christianity is based on the testimony of two women.

She could have been a Traveller, one of the people in the British Isles who traditionally lived a nomadic life in caravans. Gypsy (Romany)-like but not necessarily Gypsy.

Just keep in mind that if a vagina can accomodate a husky penis, let alone a full-term infant, it can accommodate a cat or a rabbit’s head. Not that I’d try it myself...

It looked like it was much better than the book.

Not having BBC America, this was the first time i’d watched the show, which was fortuitous since I only came across the final minutes of the last episode of the first season, so presumably AMC had just been running a first-season marathon. It didn’t actually make a great deal of difference that I had missed all the…

Comics are good too, such as “Asterix”.   My husband read a lot of Scrooge McDuck in Brazil.

Good advice for people who have 24-hour internet access and Skype, not as helpful for people who don’t.

Pretty much how I’ve felt about Star Wars.

Remind him that when the electricity goes off you’ll still be able to ride your penny farthing bicycle. You can make the turntable work without electicity by attaching a paper cone to a sewing needle, inserting it into the groove, and turning the disc manually (but don’t!).

Ditto on the horror movies mentioned. It is a pleasure to see a horror movie that is not gore and monsters. Years ago I read “Horror in the Cinema”, which discussed not only the classic monster movies but also films like “Repulsion” and “Le Corbeau”, which is not even fantasy/s.f.

His boo, obviously.

Good thinking. On a Chimay bottle they provided a drawing of the kind of glass one should use - similar to the brandy-snifter type you described, instead of a highball-type glass. Of course, after mowing the lawn I’m just as happy to drink a Bass ale (or whatever) right out of the bottle. Thanks!

What’s an OG? What’s an OA? Took me years to find out an OC was. Also, who were The Hills?

So, I’m curious, having just started to drink craft and European beers: which beers should only be drunk from a glass, not the bottle?

The two things I dislike about restaurant coleslaw is that it is usually watery, and everything is chopped up into a mush. I am hoping that neither of these is true about KFC.

I just got HBO for free for 3 months, and this was the first show that I watched, having come across it looking for “Veep”. It was Saturday so I gather that what I saw was the pilot. Wonderful noir, very tightly done. Then I found out that it’s supposed to be a comedy! The story is deeply absurd, but I prefer it as a…

Very true. And sometimes a week or two with another person can spell the end of a friendship - not even that you fight, but you just O.D. on each other. Different people are different! If you have a best friend you wouldn’t part with, great - if not, I’d rather be alone than with someone I don’t really know all that…