I saw Goldwyn in The Sum of Us at the Cherry Lane in Greenwich Village, around the same time Ghost came out. That's probably the play he mentions at the end of the interview. He played the rugby-playing gay son and there was a scene early on where he strips down to underwear. I knew from having seen Ghost that he was…

Agreed. And I forgot all about Meantime, which might have been the first Mike Leigh film I saw. Have to rewatch both at some point soon.

Thanks for the insight. I'm not impatient for the show to get around to showing us some of Jamie's less endearing qualities, but I'm glad to hear the books don't make him out to be impossibly perfect. So far, the series is doing a great job of keeping focus on Claire's experiences and interactions, and almost all the…

Since I'm old, I remember the days when we used to watch older movies in revival houses. I went to see All About Eve in 1980 on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. When Margo Channing (Bette Davis) gives her speech in the car about being a career woman vs. being a woman (basically, the latter involved needing a man),…

Season one ended with Bill at Gini's door, distraught. Then we got a time jump. The last episode ended with Bill at Gini's door, distraught. So yeah, I was expecting a time jump — but not necessarily as many as we got. Still, it didn't bother me at all and I didn't have any trouble following it.

During Gini's affair with Ethan in season one, MoS took the time to show how Gini was careful not thrust him into her children's lives willy-nilly. In general, season one spent a fair amount of time establishing Gini as a good mother who supported her kids in their development, tried to give as much of herself as she…

I gave up on the pretense that this show would adhere to the biographical details in season one. For me one thing that badly marred the first season was the way the show treated the interactions between Masters and Beau Bridges's character (who was also a fabrication of the show). The show has done a lot of…

I haven't read the books, but I'm curious about whether Jamie is such a dreamboat in the books. If I'd fault the show for anything, it's for making Jamie almost too perfect so far — he's super sexy, he's super thoughtful, he's noble (not literally nobility, but noble all the same), he's rough & rugged & manly, and…

Claire checking Jamie's wound … this show knows how to do sexy.

Maybe so, but maybe that's because it is just so refreshing to have something like this to watch, after show-after-show centering around white male heterosexual anti-heroes. I'm sticking with The Knick for now, but three episodes into that and three episodes into this, this is so much more engaging and enjoyable.

I would not have Claire's restraint were I in the position to undo Sam Heughan's shirt. Apart from being The Hunk of Summer '14, the guy has great screen presence.

MoS's episode 5 this season is probably my series favorite, with episode 6 not far behind. It just keeps getting better and better.

I am going to have to re-watch this episode before diving into the next. Time will tell, but this feels like a show better suited to a binge-watch than to weekly viewing. I know by next week I will have forgotten half the connections I have only a tenuous grasp of, if I don't refresh my memory of who these people are…

I had a friend who worked for Maltin's publisher, so I got a new copy every year on the [publishing] house. I didn't even have to ask, he knew me well enough just to give me one when the copies came in.

I think the show's gone steadily downhill since the very good pilot episode, but I'm no where near ready to write it off yet. It's certainly not up to Masters of Sex's level. For one thing, MoS has a much better cast — I don't mean just the leads, but virtually every role of note in MoS has been played to perfection.…

Agreed. Soderburgh is proving himself to be this show's strongest asset and weakest link all at the same time. He just can't restrain himself from handwaving.

I only found it distracting at the beginning of this episode — after that, it kinda blended in. But even the opening music was bland. I like the concept of using an electronic rather than orchestral score, I just wish the score was better than it is.

I had the opposite reaction to some of the technical complexity of the shots. It was too showy and distracting and took me out of the drama. I hope Soderbergh shows more restraint going forward. I'm not interested in watching a show about a director showing off.

Yes, absolutely. Gwen saying that this was "unrealistic" makes no sense, unless she has an extremely idealized notion of who William Masters was. He deliberately falsified data to back up his contention that homosexuals could be "converted." Masters was an egomaniac and IRL he had no problem bending the facts to…

That was my interpretation. Libby was concealing (from herself, more than from anyone else) her sexual arousal — heightened by a little sexual jealously and a whole lot of sexual frustration — by "disapproving" of Coral's supposed choice of beau. For Libby, Robert is dangerous, but not because of his police record. He…