"The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women"—Hillary Clinton

A truly lovely essay for a beautiful, heartbreaking book. Thank you.

So true. Cher claimed that the producers had done next to nothing regarding costuming for the women, so she personally called Bob Mackie, whom she'd worked with on TV in the 70's, and he sent over a bunch of stuff; most of the women's witchy wardrobes are courtesy of him.

I grew up in the 70's, so I always had a crush on Val from "Josie and the Pussycats." She was one of my faves. I didn't realize she was kind of the exception.

Trust me, I spent all night sitting in front of an SF Wherehouse in November '93 waiting to buy tickets in the morning for Bette Midler; there was a pillow on the ground next to the door. A guy showed up at like 1 in the morning and informed me that "he was there first" (the pillow), and he had people who were going…

When he opens it to speak…is he smart? (BTW, you're my new best friend for throwing out this reference.)

"The D-Train" was that movie. It's imperfect, but Black is fearless.

So true, but Greenfield's slack-jawed reactions to the girl doing Pacino had me in hysterics.

I sense a lot of bear cub fans on this thread, and that's a good thing.

You just nailed Abrams in one key sentence: great initial ideas, and then things just slowly sputter out into disappointment. (Not just his movies; see also "Felicity" "Alias" etc.)

Um, Michelle Pfeiffer and her leather pants (and ladder) would like a word…

Farmiga will hang in there till they announce the end of the series—the last episode will probably involve her death, and set up Norman in the Bates Motel we know from the novel and films. His half-brother, though, is living on borrowed time.

Someone had a lengthy article recently about exactly what you described so eloquently—basically, it was the "straight white guy in a baseball cap" syndrome. You can have amazing talent out there, and great screenplays (I should know, I've written three of them that received great coverage but then didn't go…

Ruffalo is slowly crawling towards a career award—you can only have so many nominations not pay off before they throw you a bone for something you don't really deserve. (See: Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman.")

And then 15 years later they decided, "Oh, well we REALLY don't want to give Best Picture to something about homos ("Brokeback Mountain" "Capote"), something that questions authority during wartime ("Good Night and Good Luck") or something that seems ambiguous about the cost of terrorism and vengeance ("Munich"). So…

You are so my new best friend. :)

Me likey!! Now let's pretend "The Seeker" never happened, and schedule a nice 5-year series for cable based on Susan Cooper's "Dark Is Rising" books.

Rebecca DeMornay in "Risky Business" and Paulette Goddard in "The Women" have similar sexy snap in their first moments on screen. ("Are you ready for me, Ralph?" "Champage?!?! I'll have some of that.")

"Citizen Kane" is one of a handful of truly "great" and brilliant movies that's also a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Not all great movies are fun and not all fun movies are great, but a few hit the sweet spot. (And yes, "Gone With the Wind" becomes a lot more interesting and funny once you treat it as a biting…

I started working for The Wherehouse in spring of '92; when we opened our store in SF, brand new CD's (Clapton "Unplugged," Natalie Cole's "Unforgettable," Mariah Carey, the Cranberries, etc.) were $14.99. Within the year, they were $15.99; the following year, they were $16.99. I went part-time after getting another…