I know. TV movie made it sound like she... well, just did a TV movie based on the legend. Not, you know, creating the role and performing a Sondheim classic for a few years.

Bah. It was the 1970s. Things were cheaper then. And did we ever discover how Mike and Carol’s respective first spouses died? Maybe there was some hefty insurance pay-outs.

Yeah. If your porch light went out, and you didn’t replace it immediately, you died. Violently, and with great foreboding of music.

I... don’t recall that episode at all. I do recall the episode where Mulder and Scully go undercover in a suburban hellscape—they use the names Rob and Laura Petrie, which doesn’t tip off ANY of their neighbors because I guess there was no Nick at Nite in the community.

She was great as Martha. And Bill Irwin as George was unexpected and perfect casting... Also saw the revival with Tracy Letts and Amy Morton (also great). She’s not wrong about Burton/Taylor, either—they are just essentially playing two drunk people shouting for two hours.

She’ll just spin it as a win anyway by declaring that either she was too smart to play along in any real or embarrassing way, or that she’s so powerful and well-loved that they feared airing the segment would cause a backlash so furious Showtime would lose money.

Fairly certain Kim will suffer the same fate--the foreshadowing for her character is pretty damn shadowed. I don’t know ultimately where they’re going for Jimmy’s complete transformation, but I’m thinking he’s going to have to lose every human contact he’s ever treasured--and having Badger make a check out to ‘Ice…

This is, amazingly, the only known photo of her.

Also, it was network TV--it’s not like she was on HBO or something. Or NYPD Blue. It wasn’t a show known for sexposition or nudity or, really, boning. 

So, is that a giant dachshund, or was Joan Crawford a lot smaller than the films make her appear? 

Hello little man.

And Trump thought it was just a little man wearing a hat.

This is a general thing with CBS comedies. Like Everybody Loves Raymond. I never got it. Sure, Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle were great--I’d’ve watched a spin-off with them--but the show as a whole was... not funny, and certainly not number-one-comedy-for-years funny. The Big Bang Theory has the same joke-delivery…

So last time Titanic stories hit Jez, everything was sold off. Is this a sequel or a reboot?

Discover basically exists so that one can discover how much they rely on Visa and MasterCard.

Fosse’s work was drenched in sex. I like LMM, and appreciate his own unique take on things, but I never think ‘sex’ about his work, even when it’s being sexy. Just a hand-gesture in Sweet Charity can earn an X-rating.

Tracey Ullman’s newish TV show is very hit-or-miss, but her Judi Dench, National. Treasure, character is delightful, and so spot-on I at first thought she’d hoodwinked Dame Judi into a cameo appearance. Ullman’s Camilla is also pretty good--I’d like to see both in their own series, set in an ice cream shop.

We’re convinced our dachshund is a Trump supporter, unfortunately. We love him, but he’s convinced everyone wants to kill him, he’s selfish, he dislikes our same-sex unionizing, resents having food taken from him but is happy to steal the food of others, benefits from free healthcare at the expense of our own. 

Also Stephen King, apparently.

Yes. That’s the most important aspect to this story.