Dammit, we need a Kay Thompson in entertainment today.

And the stations themselves, especially in Manhattan, are just so many piles of leaky concrete and rusting metal, even the more recently refurbished stations. They're in terrible shape in a way that they weren't when I arrived 20 years ago. Surely 20 years is too short a time for this to occur.

I want to know what he uses on his hair. We have the same sort of hair and my curls/waves have never behaved as well as his. And the answer he gave at the Google talk when Mandatory Fun came out, about how he just uses whatever his wife puts in the shower, is not the answer I wanted to hear. :(

I was definitely the only one in my old nerdy girl group back in the day who went for A) young Ralf Hütter, and B) young Michael Palin. My friends preferred Wolfgang Flür and Eric Idle, respectively, who I suppose were cute, but neither of them did anything for me.

Perhaps it's Kimmel's clever way of showing how Uptown Funk is basically a watered-down Morris Day and the Time song?

It's almost like a willful ignorance of the true human status; we are meat sacks like all other animals, and not solely our minds and imaginations.

So what we're seeing here is that Ted Turner is too cheap to hire researchers for his networks? I mean, HELLO! Google exists!

At the end of that Today clip, did you notice she was trying to reach for the wine while in Billy Bush's arms?

Yay! More Joel McCrea for me!

From her obituary at The Guardian:

Suddenly, the "Theme from 'Mahogany'" is running through my head.

Royalties, real estate, other investments, other gigs out of the spotlight, like, say, Ric Ocasek, who was the frontman of the 70s New Wave band The Cars; I'm sure he gets publishing royalties from the old albums, licensing fees from movies and stuff that use his music, and he produces recordings for a lot of indie…

Good accountants and investments, as I alluded to in my first response. Even if their ego takes a hit, a washed-up former star can still be secure if they have a good and honest financial team.

Let me amend that. If you've managed to reach a certain level, say that of a Streep or a Michael Jackson, you will be given several chances more than the average starlet/hunk of the month to rebound from a bad bit of product. But you had better rebound, or you're costing someone behind the scenes a lot of money, and…

It is. When I was in that business a little over 10 years ago, in production (I am not a performer, but was a PA/production secretary on some stuff), you never saw people as skittery in your life as the newcomers and the ones who knew they were on the way down.

Because in the entertainment business, you actually do not know where your next gig is coming from. You are only as good as your current gig. And you could be over at any time, at the public's whim. Unless you have a good support team with a fab accountant to help you save for that inevitable rainy day, you're always…

I thought they broke up last year?

I have no idea about these boys, except there are 5 of them, I know their names, and that they sing a song about some girl being beautiful, yes? Just wondered why for such a cutesy video that 4 of them had a solo bit and not the 5th one.

They don't want government all up in their business, just all up in yours, ladeez and gayz!

He did look unwell.