Yes! I got into that wormhole a couple of years ago when I became slightly fixated on the life and career of Kenneth Williams. The audience laughs and laughs, but I don't think they know what they are laughing at, exactly.

Judy Garland singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on her TV show after Kennedy was killed. Good Lord. I know the woman had a terrible life, but for that rendition alone, she should made a saint.
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The most interesting theme in the book is that comedy didn't evolve wholesale from someone's unique comic perspective. Stock, written jokes were the norm for many generations.

I love this book. I go back and read passages from time to time, especially the vaudeville stuff. Great history. Also, for recent showbiz books, I recommend Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, which uses court records and old news reports to solve the murder of William Desmond Taylor.

OK. Do they attempt to solve the problem of the length of time and energy it would take to travel between planets? Because that's all I can think of when I hear about these "realistic" alien movies.

Does Gerard Depardieu have gigantism?

"but he emerges uniquely qualified to describe whether he is the correct age for this shit" Awesome.
This looks fun and non-challenging. I think I will watch it to get away from my annoying relatives this season, amirite?

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It's not just a Catholic or religious thing. I knew someone several years younger than me (in her 20s at the time), who was raised Catholic and said she found it hilarious. Someone about 20 years older than me, an agnostic, said she found it "offensive to everyone, including the devil."

Yeah. I found that to be "good" scary, meaning I could see how the kids would be scared, but I didn't have trouble watching it by myself at night.

Younger people will recognize him as Hilly Berferd from Back at the Barnyard. A nice tribute to Harry.

Victor Buono played Christopher Lloyd's dad on Taxi (they were the same age) and all kinds of older characters his whole career. He died at 43.

No one on the set of Little House much liked Melissa Sue Anderson, according to a very interesting book by Alison Arngrim (Nellie). Years later, Alison saw her at Michael Landon's funeral and she was still kind of hateful. I hadn't commented today until now, so that's my contribution!

I probably will roll around in bed, though. I don't think I will lose the house

Were you on the pot?

It's getting harder and harder to remain in that contingent. My latest "goal" is to win the lottery and spend the rest of my life traveling the world, living in hotels and giving away money to the poor. I think they call that a "coping mechanism."

I compare it to an alternate 1988 in which Morton Downey Jr. is the Republican nominee.

He's right about kids. Mine discovered she liked sushi at 5 and taking a knife into oysters roasted over an outdoor grill before she was 10.

I'm 44.