Perhaps it’s a marketing ploy to emphasize that ‘you may THINK you know the story, but you don’t’? Because even the more obscure parts of the Manson story are fairly well-known thanks to books and documentaries and podcasts. 

Doesn’t Neil Patrick Harris count as the break-out star? I mean, he was over and done with, for the most part. There was the random Harold and Kumar bump, but after HIMYM started he kinda became ubiquitous.

I had no idea about the audiobook. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Mother Mary comes to me. Shouting words of anger: Let us shame.

This is the plot of ‘The Wife’. Perhaps Glenn Close can get another shot an the Oscar. 

Enjoy your commit tomorrow.

You must support more public shaming and irrational anger directed at people for drinking water on the train. Or something. You’re extremely angry and self-righteous over something that doesn’t actually concern you. I see why you’re committed each day.

It does seem a bit like doing a NY themed show and setting it in Binghamton.

Enjoy your daily commitment, lacking comity but not short of comment.

Very solid year for performances, apparently. Ellen Burstyn, Goldie Hawn, Gena Rowlands, Spacek. Any of those performances were worth an award, though I am partial to Moore’s, because it was SO against type and so nuanced--it easily could’ve been histrionic or arch, and she downplayed it beautifully. 

No, she certainly didn’t win the Oscar, but did give one hell of a performance.

All of the moves. Every one.

Thing is... she was in Maximum Overdrive before she was Lisa Simpson, and I watched that movie constantly as a kid. Two years into The Simpsons, and I couldn’t watch the movie again without thinking ‘Hey, it’s Lisa’ the entire time. She’s very good in what is an awful movie--and she was great in As Good As It…

She also voiced the ship in an episode of Futurama. The episode itself is weird and perhaps ill-conceived, but she gives one hell of a committed performance and I’m always annoyed she didn’t get more recognition for it. She’s great on film, but she’s also amazing at voicing characters.

I assume a lot of parents will now start tossing footballs at their kids’ faces to justify getting them a nose-job.

I’ve always wondered—especially after Leaving Neverland—if Feldman and Culkin are both struggling with the realization that they were the honey in the honey trap used just by Michael Jackson but by many other people in the industry. I don’t think, for instance, either Culkin or Feldman are lying when they insist…

We were getting rid of Hulu until they announced they were picking up 30 Rock (which we’re currently watching RIGHT NOW) and Futurama when Netflix cut both loose.

The second act is just another revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Saul’s named the fake company Skyler pays ‘Ice Station Zebra,’ for one. That’s the name of the movie he was watching with Kim in season one when she found out about his... shady tendencies. Her questionable driving skills don’t bode well for her either.

I don’t think Song of the South should just be released into the general feed, but I don’t think ignoring is the way to go either—it lets Disney ignore what it’s done. Same with removing the awful scene in Dumbo. There should be context, and a section in its library curated and designed to educate and reckon with the…