Stealing from some professional critic (can’t remember who): There is acting, where someone can do many different kinds of roles, and there is a “performance”, where an actor is fine in a role which fits their limited range.

best actors are fully engaged in the scene even when they’re not the center of attention

I don’t watch or hate-watch The View. I do loathe M McCain.

Family visitation would be a pain in the ass.

No word on whether Trump called Angela Merkel and wished her a happy D-Day? It sounds just like the kind of thing he’d do.

Hey, people remember the Gilmore Girls!

While watching TV I was able to name James Gilmore out of a crowd of headshots vying for the 2016 GOP nom. James (Who’s that again?) Gilmore.

When did the makers stop calling them “half-ton”?

No, at Final Jeopardy he was in second place.

I hear you. But it’s not all about the players for me.

In one market I watched it it was 7 (and Wheel of Fortune at 7:30). The wags crack about going from “grad school to grade school”.

Little story: While watching TV the last time around I was able to pick out Jim Gilmore from the ~18 GOP headshots in a collage.

Glad you mentioned McDonald’s. I was wondering if I could get away with something like that or if I had to give up a good milkshake if I were hypothetically planning this.

How soon before this app starts telling every woman using it in, say, Georgia, “You are 15 weeks pregnant?”

We’re not even getting something as laughable as those singing clean coal nuggets?

Tangential question: How easy is it to buy a passenger car/truck in the US market without power windows or AC?

Ah, the Curse of Jeffrey Loria. The residue is now playing in Miami.

Base hit? Any kind of middling speed and that could be “bunt double”, a phrase I didn’t know existed.

Also Die Wacht am Rhein from Casablanca (the good part, before those hippies begin La Marseillaise.

So, Villa, Burnley, and West Ham are all going to be wearing dark red and light blue in the Premiership next year?