Finally saw The Danish Girl last night. Eddie Redmayne copping his second Oscar for it will only reinforce my opinion based on his performance in it that he’s basically the Luise Rainer of the 21st century - less a performer than an amalgam of doe-eyed beseeching glances into the middle distance whom for some reason…

Not cancer, but as an open-heart survivor I spend some time on a support forum, and it drives me insane when drop-ins (virtually none who have had the operation) come on and tell us that our doctors are evil patsies in the pay of Big Surgery (apparently an ally of Big Pharma) and that if we’d only go vegan/Paleo/green…

From the ‘Starving Artist Warehouse’ being shown at the Holiday Inn ballroom for this week only.

I’m a 50-something guy who just barely made it through open-heart - I cannot imagine the strength of a little girl who’s had three. Give her the doll. Give her all the dolls.

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?

Why is your Simpson pic in French?

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.

Hollywood Asian makeup has always been a little weird. Just ask Kate, seen here in Dragon Seed.

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…

My first studio in Manhattan was smaller than that (yay, 47th and Tenth back in the Hell’s Kitchen crack days!) and it was fine (my largest party was about 75 people over four or five hours, although we did have to stack as much of the furniture as possible in the bathtub).

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…