From what I read, it seems like her mother doctor shopped constantly.  As soon as someone starting doubting her stories, she stopped seeing them and went somewhere new, and there was always an excuse why the new doctor couldn’t get the old records.

Agreed. It is remarkable that Gypsy isn’t in a mental hospital, the abuse was so severe and it served no one to have her imprisoned.

I am still sickened at how the medical-industrial-complex allowed Gypsy’s case to happen at all. It does seem that a few physicians suspected something, but I fear that Dee Dee’s cleverness and most doctors/hospitals/pharma companies’ greed allowed obvious child abuse to go unchecked. And while Dee Dee’s is an extreme…

This. Gypsy shouldn’t have been convicted at all, on the basis of self defense.  She arranged the death of her abuser.  She deserved compassion and treatment, not jail time.  Honestly, I wish nothing but the best for her.  I hope she can find happiness in her new life, but in the short term, hell yeah, I hope she gets…

I don’t know what kind of evidence her defense presented during her trial, but reading about the case earlier today, I can’t imagine voting to convict had I been on the jury.

Like the Spears case, this matter highlights the complicated issues that can arise is trying to address troubled adult children. On one hand, Cher seems to believe (perhaps with good reason) that Allman’s estranged wife is dangerous to his wellbeing. But efforts to protect these adult children can stray quickly into…

I’ve seen it so many times and it just gets funnier and more scathing with age.

Sharon Stone singing that awful song as Scarlet O’Hara remains one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen. “This Civil War...ain’t gonna get me doooooown. I’m moving my act to a brand new toooooown!”

There’s an episode of ALF where Irreconcilable Differences is cited as a “bad Ryan O’Neal movie”. Well I don’t know what they look for in films on Melmac, but to us Earthlings it’s pretty good.

One of the weird things about Grammer is that despite having the Martin character, the fan base of the original Frasier is overwhelmingly liberal and it is a fantasy about reconciliation with your working class family members. Grammer’s other claim to fame is The Simpsons, a show with another strongly left leaning fan…

A totally underrated film and should be seen a lot more. Bonus points because O’Neil was doing an impression of his Paper Moon director, Peter Bogdanovich. For those that don’t know, the movie is loosely based on the divorce of Bogdanovich and his first wife, Polly Platt. The Sharon Stone character is a pretty vicious…

I think that may actually be the only Ryan O’Neal movie I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen it like 50 times. Just fantastic.

“Works for me!”

Irreconcilable Differences remains one of my favorite films of the 80s and my favorite film about Hollywood ever made.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this new version started to hit its stride when they started bringing on really strong guest stars. The episode with June Diane Raphael was by far better than the first set of episodes, and obviously, Bebe Neuwirth just absolutely crushed it in what was easily the best episode of…

Lazy and repetitive! Instead of recognizing that Chandler & Monica were the opposite of Ross and Rachel, it sounds like they wanted to repeat Ross and Rachel.

It would have been horrible to repeat the Ross and Rachel soapy drama with Chandler and Monica. And more and more, it sounds like the writers lucked into writing a mature and stable relationship that fans loved and that was at times funny. I have heard that they just planned to hook up Monica and Chandler and were…

It was the post-Sam-and-Diane problem. How do you keep a couple dramatically interesting once they’re together? Lots of immature drama! 

This.

It sounds like lazy writing, to be honest. “What’s a good way to create relationship drama? I know! One of them cheats on the other!” If that’s all you can come up with, you’re not that good of a writer.