But Gwyneth has more than a few drops of Georgina.

Audra McDonald and Will Swenson. Common and Serena, if they're back together. Peter Krause and Lauren Graham.

Well, strictly speaking, this news did not come out today. It's been all over the BBC for 3 days (and the BBC is online) and the U.S. news for two days. Also, as I said somewhere else on this thread, it's "Mahmood, whose Twitter account" not "who's Twitter account."

Yeah, and Maya Angelou. I mean she is widely beloved, but for films?

I agree. That jihadi's bride tip line is a pretty glib way to address female slavery, a global problem. We should be championing all women, not ridiculing them.

I know this isn't the point of the story, but it should be, "Mahmood, whose Twitter account . . . " not "Mahmood, who's Twitter account."

He was nominated for a Globe. By your calculus you have to win a Golden Globe to be nominated for an Oscar? How does that work?

How are the white nominees not exactly white?

Reading Don Draper's extra-marital affairs through this lens:
Insecure Minx = Suzanne Farrell
Bohemian Rebel = Midge Daniels
Messalina Reincarnate = Rachel Menken
Love-Starved Woman = Sylvia Rosen

But it is true that Obama was raised in a different manner from Giuliani. As Wayne Barrett points out in the Daily News, Giuliani's father was a bat-wielding, felonous thug who did time in Sing Sing. Obama's mother got her PhD in anthropology while raising two kids. So, of course their values will be different. htt…

Jerry Seinfeld's sarcastic "mea culpa," plus the pointed absence of black women from last night's celebration, show that they still don't get it.

I use blenders all the time. Smoothies, salad dressing, pureed soups, the list goes on. I truly don't understand the comment that no one uses blenders.

In the meantime, his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, is quietly running a successful business in the Bronx.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/nyr…

Proud to be an alumna today.

Ha, no, I was thinking of the precocious she-devil in Thirty Rock.

But . . . just for the sake of discussion . . . who would you cast as a young Joni? I'm thinking maybe Elizabeth Olsen or Chloe Grace Moretz?

I never knew she felt this way, but I'm not shocked. Listen to her song "Old Furry Sings the Blues," and it's all there, that kind of appropriation by association. I'm sure there's a name for it, but I don't know what it is. In "Girls Like Us" there's a long section about a black jazz musician with whom she had a…

Same thing happened to me. Host of a party offered me some chips he made, and then said, "Ha, ha, they were made in bacon fat." What I think many meat-eaters don't understand is that, if you haven't eaten meat in a while (15 years in my case), your stomach stops producing the enzymes you need to break down meat. It…

This brilliant skit had me thinking, wow, SNL is getting kind of feminist. Then came Miss Trash USA . . .

You could be my friend. You sound awesome.