I can never think of Ovaltine without hearing Frau Bucher (*alarmed whinny*) offering it to Gene Wilder.

"Yet at the same time, Grammer sees his decision to become an actor as coming from a similar place as Jesus’ willingness to be crucified for humanity’s salvation: Both come from a selfless desire to 'do good' and to 'serve mankind.'"

"and the fact that Bill Hader never wore out Herb Welch or Stefon during his tenure on the show"

Exactly. By the way, a weird TV listing reminded me the other day of "Police Story," a show from the 1970s which fell somewhere between "Dragnet" and the police half of "Law & Order." It was an anthology about the LAPD, featuring a different police officer every week. (A few officers made return appearances, and a few…

She's doing what she does. You could make a pretty good argument that entertainers making straightforward statements on political issues actually do more harm than good. They often come across as condescending and undercut the points they're trying to make. Melissa McCarthy is a gifted comedienne, putting her talents…

Maya Rudolph or "Get ouuuuuuuuuuut!"

I should have, but I didn't. I really just looked at his Wikipedia entry. What happened was, not long after we started rehearsals, a co-worker at my job had a heart attack — so I was working overtime while trying to rehearse and memorize my lines — and there are basically three co-leads, onstage for pretty much the…

Coincidentally enough, I — a United Methodist, through and through — am playing screenwriter Ben Hecht in a local community theater production of "Moonlight & Magnolias" (a really great, funny play) last weekend and this weekend. And Hecht's Judaism is definitely part of the show — he tries to use their shared Jewish…

I got a "Community" notification for *this*?

Here's what I wrote a year ago: http://www.t-g.com/story/22…

It comes from the Nashville Hot Chicken. The original hot chicken places in Nashville serve the hot chicken with white bread and pickle slices, so KFC was trying to emulate that, and they just did the same thing with the Georgia Gold.

Those vocabulary lessons were all for naught.

With all due respect to Molly Haskell's work as a writer, I thought the season of TCM's "The Essentials" in which she was Robert Osborne's co-host was my least favorite of all the seasons. She just did not connect on television and did not have any chemistry with Osborne.

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Saw: Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

No, I'm pretty sure JLo will be playing Rosie, the part played by Chita Rivera on Broadway and Janet Leigh in the movie. The teenage girl character has a smaller part in the play than in the movie; the movie producers beefed up the part for Ann-Margret, much to the fury of the Broadway stars like Dick Van Dyke and…

What about the Dufresnes? No one gets to eat until we find the Dufresnes…..

I know you were kidding, but Sean Hayes is an executive producer of "Hollywood Game Night," which was inspired by games played at parties he hosted.

There are a couple of places in the second paragraph where the reviewer is referring to the original Spalding Gray documentary but uses Gail, the character name from the parody, by mistake. Does anyone else see that?

They mention "Simon & Simon," "Cagney & Lacey," and "Kate & Allie," but where's the love for "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," which is also in the promo? Is it just because they didn't use an ampersand?