Neither Griffith nor Hedren are anything like Meryl Streep or Helen Hayes - but they’re both terrific movie stars, which is something a little bit different. It’s a rare performer who can be both technically top-notch and hugely charismatic; usually the balance tips one way or another. I’ve not seen enough of Johnson…

Good for them. I’m hoping they stay retired for another 20 years or so, then come back for a full-tilt Grand Guignol remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.

WHY IS SHE USING THE BRITISH SPELLING OF FAVORITE?

Not to jump on the senseless fantasy violence bandwagon, but why not use both of them as clubs to batter Bill Cosby? Everybody wins!

I read the (excellent) biography of her that came out earlier this year. She’s a complicated and often difficult person, but there are very, very few people that have ever had the much talent - pure voice, total musicianship - and lasted as long as Aretha. Not a happy woman, apparently, but how wonderful to see that…

I LOVED that she brought her handbag onstage and just plunked it down on the piano. AS ONE DOES.

And in defense of the onetime governor, he probably actually spent a large portion of his life being told “Shut up, Piyush.”

Your ex sounds like our dear old dad - who got mad at us when we wouldn’t let him announce his engagement... at our mother’s funeral. Nope, they weren’t divorced. His rationale was that, well, the whole family was together, and it would save on having to mail announcements. Suffice it to say that our stepmother’s name…

He’s one jumpsuit and about three pounds away from being a dead ringer (as it were) for what’s left of Ramses II...

So, the last company Dallasfood.org took on, Noka Chocolate, lasted, if memory serves, less than a year after the exposé. Anybody want to guess how long until til the Masts decide they want to become hedge-fund managers or maybe an itinerant ukelele duo?

Just Google. They had LinkedIn pages for a while, and she had a poorly privatized FB page...

Our condo has a gaggle we call The Pool Widows who bob in the deep end all day long for most of the summer, not a wet hair among them. A couple even go in with big cartwheel sunhats that stay dry as a bone...

The Noka extravaganze ate up waaaaay too much of time as it was unfolding. It was amazing to watch the company implode over the next year. Every once in a while I try to find out what happened to the hapless couple who would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids (well, that chocolate-obsessed…

All this tells me is that Margaret Cho is probably, for reasons best known to her, broke. That or mysteriously in thrall to her mangager/agent.

Based on the photo above, Lindsay has gone from looking like 26-going-on-40 to being about six weeks this side of full-blown Jackie Stallone. Think about her career, and then think about how you’d feel knowing that it’s far more than likely that you’ll never be anything more than her less-successful baby sister.…

She’s a huge star, and good on her for it - but every time I hear her, all I can think is what all that shouting is going to do to her throat.

The trailer, as others in this thread have noted more eloquently than I, was a train wreck, making the movie look ugly, depressing, full of loud, fake effects, but most of all overwrought to the point of hysteria. I sat there being pummeled by it wondering how it came to be that smart people could spend so much money…

So do you suppose Danner - an accomplished and serious actress and apparently a pretty terrific person - is embarrassed by GOOP, or does she buy in to all the nonsense? I’ve long wondered what it would be like to have to be so publicly supportive while all the while being secretly, profoundly mortified.

The Moranbong gals aren’t bad, but I can’t forgive them for displacing in the big guy’s favor the previous in-group, the fabulous Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble (some or all of whom, it’s rumored, may have been executed). If you’ve never heard their amazing “Reunification Rainbow,” well... once you have, you’ll have it…

Following cardiac bypass surgery, I’ve had to radically overhaul my eating, and I’ve found that one major challenge is that so many of the resources available online for healthy recipes are also such rabbit-holes of craziness. No, I don’t want to go ultra-paleo-raw-whatever; I just want good reliable low-carb,…