My mother and her crowd (in their early 20s when the War ended) tended to put a little on their earlobes as well. They generally used less makeup - lipstick and very little else - than their mothers (who picked up the makeup habit when it stopped being scandalous after WWI); grandma and her crowd went in for powder in…

The spin-off would focus on the adult girls (who are the victims in all of this (of molestation and cult brainwashing)), at least, is what I have heard.

I’m imagining a stately approach line with majestic bonsai; a farmhouse straight out of the tiny hosue movement; and fields glistening in the distance with a bumper crop of baby carrots and that kind of corn you only find canned and used in deli salads.

Both Fonda and Tomlin get executive producer credits; the two supporting actors don’t. Even if they’re getting the same paychecks for their thespic skills, I’m guessing the two women are making out better overall than Waterston and Sheen. And I’m glad there’ll be a season two; it’s not epically fabulous, but it’s lots…

I’m thinking a nice hour of carefully arranged standards - something very wry/Brit, but maybe with a light bossa nova sort of sound - a couple of Noel Cowards, a Sondheim or two, something very ‘60 like “As Tears Go By,” and a shattering little something from Weill. She could play thee Carlyle in New York and add…

I’ve learned through hard experience that you just can’t teach some people not to hit “okay/accept/download.” It’s sort of like people who’ll never learn to check traffic when crossing the street....

Now that is good Kinja.

Wow, I forgot how bad gadgets looked. Say hi to 2007 for me!

You want real big fun? Try BarbWire (barbwire.com) - it’s an absolute cavalcade of Xianist lunacy. They crazies are out there, and they’re very, very irritated.

I was going to chime in that there was a solid Palin-related joke in regard to Alaska being a no-data zone, but you actually went ahead and created one. Bravo.

Now, I’m not saying this comes from personal experience, necessarily, but my tip for the newbies is that on top of the grand piano in a student lounge, under a pile of packing blankets, is not a place that encourages either intimacy or a stress-free experience.

Sheen and Waterston are talented actors, but they are ‘playing gay’ far too much here, to the point of distraction. Not every homosexual is effeminate and precious, even as slightly as they (especially Sheen) play it.

That’s it, really - as a character who’s sensible, intellectual, public-spirited, she’s totally out of synch with the foursome. The disconnect with the actress’s performance style only enhances all of all that. Fun to have a glimpse backstage, and even better with the fulsome explanation that it was about the work and…

The funniest thing, to me, about all of this is how much the very way it wasn’t working between the two as actors is exactly what makes the Susan story work so well. She starts as an interesting but clearly fleeting character (as an NBC production person, then as a temporary lesbian), works her way into the story, and…

No sound at the office, so can only watch the trailer - but my God, she looks fabulous - Bacallesque. It’s great to see a longstanding (movie) character play get a break.

My grandmother (otherwise wonderful woman who was a like a second mother to me) kept my mother’s hair very short most of her life, because it was less work to style. My mother didn’t like it, and even as an adult felt sad about having it cut when she didn’t want it done. These things are very meaningful to children,…

Damn, what is that from?

I see your Rooney and raise you a Lorre - he gives Emma Stone a big thumbs-up!

Katharine Hepburn has no issue with this casting...

In the immortal words of Miss Gertrude Stein (in regard to her hometown of Oakland, CA, but equally apposite here), “There’s no there there.”