And was in the underrated gay indie BROADWAY DAMAGE.

Er, gotta disagree about the good voice. It's pretty embarrassing, actually.

She was certainly great a few times. RAIN and MILDRED PIERCE immediately come to mind.

RAIN is perhaps Joan's best performance ever, actually, but it's a film that she went on record as disliking because it wasn't financially successful. MGM loaned her out for it and I think she hoped it would be a big break for her, which it wasn't.

Seen it THEATRICALLY at Film Forum, and it's a lot of fun! It's not at all unwatchable, ignore Lord Dudley. Diane Walker is good in it, too.

The bigger question is: who's playing Deborah McGuire, his nudie cutie actress wife who was in Russ Meyer's SUPERVIXENS? Or Pam Grier?

TV doesn't work like that. There is a set budget for each season. Any more money they need has to go through channels and get approved before it's spent. HBO has vetoed a few things that would be deemed too expensive, though I can't off the top of my head remember any specific examples. They don't give the show carte…

Something I don't really get here: doesn't the King's army outnumber the faithful religious nut jobs following the high scepter? If not…why not?

The issue, which was never really addressed, is that Jon never laid out the plans for WHY he was doing what he was doing. You can't just say, "Trust me, some bad shit's going down, I'm the leader, follow me." Uh, explain why we're allying with these murderers and rapists who've been our enemies for years? He made no…

That was the worst case of switcheroo I've ever seen on a TV show. Even the two Dick's (York and Sargent) on "Bewitched" looked mildly similar. How do you go from a blonde Viking God to a brunette beardie? More importantly, how do you not sign an actor to multiple seasons if you're booking him to play a character you…

I'm hoping and praying that the show has learned from the season-long torture session of Theon and won't do that to us again.

And they also can't act on their feelings towards one another because, ya know… If characters can't screw, I don't think the writers are really going to invest much time in their relationship.

Gotta admit, I'm getting really tired of the Starks continually just missing each other in their travels through the show. Can't we get a Stark reunion of some sort already?! Do we have to wait until the final episode of the series or something?

Yet Howie Mandel keeps getting work?

Agreed, this was not an A- episode. It was a solid B, though. Didn't love it, didn't hate it, it had some good moments.

I wonder if Effie Brown is going to be working on this?

I thought director Vincent Sherman, who worked with both, also said something about having affairs with them at different times? They really did echo each other in odd ways.

A book so delicious I read it in one afternoon and have read it at least six times since! It's so great because it follows both actress' careers until they converged on JANE and (briefly) CHARLOTTE and then the narrative continues after those two collaborations. That kind of structure really builds their personas so…

The Katrina season is already a terrible idea, honestly. Their justification for calling it a "crime story" is weak.

If Jason is back on a second Heroes vs. Villains, he's definitely not leaving the bullying antics behind. Especially if he's on the Villains tribe. That is kinda the whole point lol be a villain. Or at least how Russell Hantz, his favorite player, would see it.