It isn't important unless a celebrity says it I guess. Go back to sleep.

Astaire was the favorite singer of a number of composers. Some quotes I dug up:

But he tried, God knows he tried.

His publicist wrangled an invite from some gullible senator's staff member but that doesn't mean the rest of the committee has to stick around and waste their time listening to him.

Before the Tonight Show format became calcified Carson would have on his group of regulars (and CNR was one) all the time whether they had something to plug or not and they would just come on, tell stories and shoot the breeze. And because they were actually having discussions and not sticking to a pre-show…

Kevin Spacey?

The p.c. police looks back at a 40 year old show.

Does Bill Simmons count?

The Leutonian Liberation Front rejoices on the death of Moe Greene.

Anti-Cinema!

The 100th SNLer should happen sometime in mid-March.

What the hell is a neutral review?

I don't think anyone on the planet ever thought of Carson as a "cool and detached grandpa."

Except The Beach Boys had already released 3 top ten albums and a number of top ten singles by the end of 1963, including such songs as "Surfin' Safari," "Surfin' U.S.A.," "Surfer Girl," "Little Duece Coupe," 409," and maybe their best song ever, "In My Room."

"We will literally never see another show like this again."

The script is absolutely terrible and if Clooney hadn't written it he never would have signed up to direct it.

As Lorne Michaels' iron curtain of comedy descends on late night…

You can't go wrong by watching all the films Grant made with:
Hawks - Bring Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Only Angles Have Wings, Monkey Business and I was a Male War Bride.
Hitchcock - Notorious, Suspicion and North by Northwest
McCarey - The Awful Truth, An Affair to Remember, Once Upon a Honeymoon
Stevens. - Gunga Din,…

beyond the HFPA’s dubious standards for quality

He was pretty terrible in Ryan's Daughter, which otherwise is a pretty underrated film.