I understand she does, but she has had thirteen years of spending a good amount of her time around the best chefs in the world. She got the job for the same reason Katie Lee did. Model-pretty wife of someone famous with a tenuous connection to food.

I think Gail is a beautiful woman who is also smart, talented and kind. I think Padma is a harder sell, because she's basically there because pretty and well-connected, but I can't imagine who anyone thinks can afford to eat like this.

No. She has fans, as do those characters. They're just too small a niche to support the shows she was on, and as each has tried to make her happen with a broader audience, they've died.

You make a good point, but still, on that day, she beat him.

At the beginning, though (according to the documentary) they were afraid that it would do to them what sound did to a lot of the silent stars.

It looked green in the pictures I saw, and I've seen it described that way, but maybe they mean verdigris.

According to a really neat documentary about technicolor that's on the special features for Robin Hood, the actresses revolted because they thought they'd look less attractive in color. There's a reason there was just one color scene, with models, in The Women.

Apparently 75% of the audience disagreed.

I didn't eat the meal, so I couldn't say about that. I can say that Shirley is a far more generous chef and person than Brooke showed herself to be, and a notably more gracious runner-up than Brooke was a winner. I'm going to guess, based on the unpleasant things they chose to run with, that the edit monkeys agreed…

Oh good lord. How many shows are they going to break shoehorning her into them?

I don't get that. Unless you bet the house on 'Faye Dunaway will announce the right winner the first time,' nobody lost a thing. With the possible exception of the casts and crews of both movies, because now they're not multiple Oscar™ winners, they're asterisks.

It's funny how when people make pronouncements on behalf of 'we liberals' they're always confessing to conservative straw.

This. The only real victim at the end of Eve is Eve.

(she wears red to an all-white ball, which somehow translates even in black and white)

And lest we forget, because god only knows Richard has, he came in third. Lisa, as much as she's a godawful human being, beat him too. He's just reframed it as a two-way race over the years so he can play that he only lost to a much better competitor.

You can tell a child is going to be a sociopath if you catch them pulling the wings off of vegans.

No, that's not quite what happened. What happened is that the group started to get on TV, and a young lawyer named Jerry Rivers changed his name and sold himself to a bunch of local media as someone who could get them to open up. Then he sold himself to the group as someone who could get them on TV. Then he dumped…

No, because our legal system allows the judge not to approve the plea deal. The man just wants to prove that he can walk away from raping a child. He can't. So sad.

He lives across the channel from the world capital of baked beans. He could probably order takeout from England and have it arrive still warm.

I was more struck by the idea that Polanski managed to inject some aspect of the shittiness of humanity into Macbeth which wasn't in the text.