I used to make a point of watching the Tonight Show when Orson Bean and Tony Randall were on (pre-Odd Couple). In those days I was never sure what their claim to fame actually was, but they were such fascinating raconteurs it was a pleasure to listen to them. Orson Bean might talk about a Summerhill-type school in Gree…

I sniggered at that line until I became a parent myself and didn’t do much better.

Maybe Hayley Mills was lucky when her parents didn’t even tell her she’d been awarded an Oscar as Best Child Actor (no longer given).

But it took another actor to try to put it into perspective for him.

“There aren’t a lot of movies about divorce”? There are tons of movies about divorce, going back 90 years! Katherine Hepburn’s first movie was “Bill of divorcement”.

Hubby died from a neuromuscular disease, so this part wasn’t so fun for me.

I’ve been addicted to Sofi Tukker’s “The Good Time Girl” since the sisters had their dorm party.

It’s the kind of thing that ought to turn up on TCM sometime. We should send them a petition.

According to a long-ago article on women in Hollywood the screenwriter Eleanor Perry wanted to change a violent scene because she felt the girl’s character wouldn’t have succumbed. Perry’s husband Frank was the director and reportedly his callous response was “Change her character.”

Why didn’t they call it The Rhythm Method???

I can’t see the movie becuase I just can’t get behind Scarlet Johansen being married to Adam Driver. He is the homeliest excellent actor I have seen in a long time. (YMMV!)

British TV has been like that, too: more like an extended mini-series with a beginning, middle and end. It also meant that someone like Judi Dench could be in a TV series knowing that it was only going to last 6 months. Possibly it also helped that the episodes were mainly written by one or two people, giving the story…

I had a lot of options this weekend: things I could do on Friday or Sunday, or Saturday or Sunday, or could only do on one of those days. After sage contemplation I watched the first episode of “Picard” (meh - saved myself from signing up for CBS All access) and the rest of seasons 3 of “Narcos” (haven’t seen season 1…

Yikes, don’t watch this if you’re prone to seizures.

Fully-functioning Mandalorian or no dice.

At the screening I went to, someone brought their elementary school-age kids, who laughed their heads off. How they responded to the not-funny scenes, I don’t know.

Taika Waititi, the film’s creator, has a Jewish mother, which under Jewish law makes him Jewish and would have sent him to a concentration camp. It was his choice to satirize Nazis.

I’m with you. during the Bush years I could roll my eyes and laugh, but I can’t any more.

That must have been some knife.

If I recall correctly, at the Oscars they had a feature about how movies will often use local actors in small parts. In Contagion the doctor who tells Matt Damon that his wife has died was a local Chicago actor.