Great book, great movie. The scene where Steve Carrell and his business partner go to the under-construction suburban Florida neighborhood during their “is-this-looming-$hit-circus-as-bad-as-we-think-it-might-be” fact-finding trip is so. damn. depressing. Wall Street-ers and mortgage bankers/brokers should be required…

Mom of a typical (left coast, strongly Blue State) suburban 13 year-old football- and video game-loving boy here... We purposefully don’t have a door on our small rec room because I want to be able to listen to—and interject if ever necessary—what he and friends are doing/saying in there (you don’t get 100% privacy as…

The first True Life episodes that entered my mind upon right-this-moment learning that it’s STILL BEING AIRED (who knew? not me) were: “I Had Weight Loss Surgery” and “I’m a Sugar Baby.” One of the guys featured in the former episode had had very successful Lap Band surgery and ultimately decided to have the Band…

The year was 1996 and John Travolta’s post-Pulp Fiction career revival had begun its rightful downturn when I, giddily engaged at the time, sat through the alleged “romantic fantasy drama” that was... don’t judge me.. “Phenomenon.” Perhaps it was PMS, perhaps it was lack of sleep due to wedding planning, but when Kyra…