Definitely not a knockoff. It was based on Larry McMurtry’s 1966 novel. Memories, but not nostalgia. It’s the role I always remember her for. On Dancing With the Stars she was terrible, but so much fun! Every actor should have a career like hers.

What’s the earliest TV show you remember watching?

I have been addicted to this show since the beginning but have carefully never read ahead in the books except to finish them as they correspond to each season. This season I’m finding Bull strangely appealing - must be my age.

He didn’t say that Russian Orthodox choir music gives a “strange feeling of  space and sexuality” but “space and sacrality”.

I meant 65 years.

“I Married Joan”?! With Jim Backus and Joan Somebody? It’s been 55 years and I can still sing the theme song!

I was present when my first husband died. A few hours later I slept next to him because I would never get another chance. He wasn’t stiffening for about 12 hours. On a CSI episode a woman spent the night next to a man who had died and I was annoyed when one of the technicians made a crack about the smell. There wasn’t…

Reading “Magic for the Resistance” by Michael Hughes, who created the “Bind Trump” spell. It isn’t too late to utilize some magic/prayer along with concrete action.

On a more Sunday-morning note, there is a beautiful children’s book entitled “The Donkey’s Dream” by Barbara Helen Berger, illustrating what is flowing through the sleepy mind of the donkey carrying Mary to Bethlehem: images of a fountain, a city, a rose, other symbols of the Virgin Mary. Check it out on the next…

Back before most of us were born, even me, the Soviets used to erase people who had fallen from grace from photographs, documents, public life. They became “non-persons.” Make him a non-person in your own life if you want, as he is in mine, but don’t change reality just because it was ugly. I still wince every time I…

A museum, I can understand. Cute little hatchet cookies — I hope they’re not serious.

My fridge has a door handle so I usually hook the dish towel through there. I’ve seen bathrooms larger than my kitchen, so a separate hamper isn’t going to happen.

It was such a harrowingly great book that I really never want to see it portrayed on the screen.

I’m so confused, I thought Jeffree was a man? That would be an interesting wrinkle.

Royal succession was simpler back when people only lived to 56.

I went to my first leftist demonstration over 50 years ago, so I’ve heard these terms for a long time - even wondered back in the day whether anti-Vietnam war protests qualified as “sedition”. Nonetheless, I am not real comfortable with the rather free use of the term “terrorist”. Of course, no one ever actually calls…

My parents used to do this and I had no idea they were having sex in the meantime.

Speaking of Kinja, I get aggravated when it doesn’t recognize me when I comment from a different compter. That might make sense, but Disqus allows you to log in if it doesn’t recognize you right away.

I’m old enough to be the grandmother of the Betty girls, but I loved every minute of them. More appointment TV!

You mean the Belter  dialect?