The photo freaked me out. For one horrifying moment I thought it was a before-and-after, and that June Shannon had somehow had an unprecedentedly total Extreme Makeover.

So true. I’m frequently Zillowing Palm Springs and its surroundings, as we’re thinking of scoping it out for retirement in a couple of years. Overall the prices don’t seem bad (next to DC), but my God the decorating - I haven’t seen so many French Provincial bedrooms and avocado kitchens since the Ford adminstration...

if they will have kids , imagine what Mama Dina pitch for reality show will be

I must have read that at least twenty times... still... not sure... whaaa...?

Oh, God. I didn’t have a chance to watch that trailer ‘til just now. This doesn’t just look bad, this looks Mommie Dearest-meets-Liz and Dick bad. I saw Simone play (at a dingy little club in the mid- ‘80s; she came on ninety minutes or so late, berated the audience for a while, sat down and played and sang badly for…

In addition to it being genuinely clever and visually witty, I’m rather impressed that on the whole they were very respectful of the model and her actual body - they didn’t give her Chesty Morgan boobs or toothpick limbs, they left her face (aside from the eye reflections) as is, and they made her look (a much as…

He’s kept Ivana quiet all these years, and you know she’s got great dirt. I’m guessing she’s not wanting for much, and good on her for getting paid for putting up with him for so long.

Barbie. As a middle-aged guy, I feel kind of odd about it, but it amuses me, and I suppose I’m getting back at all the times I couldn’t have one when I was a kid.

Aretha is a longtime (now, I believe former) smoker, sometime heavy drinker, and survivor of multiple health issues and crises. What her voice is is no longer consistent, which is no surprise. Sometimes, she’s in only middling voice (that Letterman “Rolling in the Deep”) and sometimes she’s almost the Aretha of yore…

He looks like a guy hired to play Michael Bluth in a porn parody of Arrested Development. 4/10, would not do.

Me too. I’m getting to the point where I might need to stop with any news for a bit.

I was put into a speed-reading class in something like fifth grade (may have been sixth. It started because I kept getting pulled from class for speech therapy - I had a hesitation and, mortifyingly, a lisp - and eventually since it was going to be a regular thing, they needed something to do with me (and a couple of…

But what would the username be? BarbieQ?

She’s got work on her hands to equal Carol Channing, who managed to bring an indescribable tenderness to an otherwise brassy role.

While other royals like Anne and Sophie work their arses off and no one pays any attention to them.

Because I value my sanity, there is no way in hell I’m going to watch this, so I’ll ask those braver than I: after delivering this little gem, did she pause for just a moment and then flash that horrifying mirthless smile that threatens to reveal, for a millisecond, that she’s in fact one of the aliens from They Live?

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.