Agreed. I wish there were enough material for a show about Elizabeth and Clemmie Churchill. I could watch Harriet Walter dry dishes and be fascinated for hours.

Until Schmuck a L’Orange hears about it and cancels it because he doesn’t like brainy broads.

Those over-filled lips don’t stretch easily.

Yes. And I just spent four full minutes googling because if it weren’t for Dirt Bag, I’d have never heard of her.

Right? I had read about this briefly elsewhere before I knew that Chuck Lorre was involved, and I was really excited.

I was pretty enthused up until the last line. Chuck Lorre and swearing are going to yield a lot of gratuitous F-bombs followed by laugh track hits because, I dunno, “fuck” is funny?

Oh Kathy Bates, I really hope you didn’t just need the money.

I sent my kid to big city public schools (full disclosure: high school was at a selective enrollment magnet school). This shit didn’t happen because the law actually means something to her classmates. Oh, and also, they were busy working their asses off at academics, extra-curriculars, and after-school jobs to get the…

“A Botched Act of Heroism in Montauk” is, I believe, the title of the new Jonathan Safran Foer novel.

Ha! They were getting paid handsomely, so I didn’t feel too bad about it.

I was conducting focus groups on cleaning supplies among women 40-60 in downtown Chicago. My one group was doing great until I suddenly realized I had lost their attention. Some very hot dude (I’m a big ol’ lesbo, so this was aesthetic perfection, not just random peen) came out of the bathroom in his hotel room across…

This in conjunction with the “Siesta Key” post below it is almost everything wrong with this country in a nutshell.

She was also part of the amazing ensemble in Horace and Pete.

And yeah, Tootsie is incredible.

“My daddy bought me a reality show” is really not the motto of a manly man.

Oh god, me too.

Okay, Jon Hamm, whatever.
THIS IS A WHOLE MOVIE STARRING LOIS SMITH! HOW DID WE GET SO LUCKY?

Amended to add— And Jimmy and Rosalynn, of course, but one of the best things about them is they’ll never show up in Dirt Bag.

The only Carter family that matters.

The Leering Channel: For all your voyeuristic, judgmental, concern-trolling needs.

Madame Abe seems to have cracked it: If, for a moment, God seems to hate you and you end up sitting next to 45, just pretend not to speak English. He doesn’t really either, so you’ll have that in common.

Taking my ball and going home now.