What a fascinating story! I had no idea about this part of medical history, will watch it, and I am sure Goldsberry will be terrific. Altered Carbon, probably will watch too; the Henrietta Lacks movie definitely.

The Bad Seed!!!!

I used to be a development exec:) I wonder if we ever had a general.

Oh yeah, the story turned out great. I worked those details into it. :-) I love food and totally enjoy cooking for and eating with friends. I find it somewhat awkward to do with a stranger, however. Like a blind date. I have to frantically scan the menu for something that won’t drip on me or get stuck in my teeth.

Maybe I’m taking your name and avatar too literally now... but in my mind I now see Mandy.

I have four nephews and no nieces. Despite what Auntie Mame claims, boys don’t usually have a shortage of rebellious role models to corrupt them. I am so disappointed that I can’t be that aunt for any nieces.

Rosalind Russell starred in two of the most accessible “old” movies, I think . Auntie Mame, of course, and His Girl Friday both hold up well even for younger audiences.

Please thank this loyal citizen for planting the seed.

We need this. We needed you. Thank you Kara.

MOM’S BACK

Well a common sexist stereotype of woman in power is that they’re shrill.

because they are insinuating that her laugh is too loud, too aggressive, too much and she should be relegated to tiny giggles behind her hand like a good, docile woman would. I mean, can you believe her audacity to actually laugh her real laugh??

I thought it was a good speech.

wait. I just created another burner account just so I can ask...”who are you?” are you a journalist? an actress?

Your last paragraph rings very very true not just with male journalists, but also with male academics. Actually just certain men in general who fancy themselves lofty poets and intellectuals and pedestalize women (but always in a vaguely posessive and condescending way) while also resenting us for giving them such…

I will never forget reading a super odd interview with Kyra Sedgwick, for either Vanity Fair or Elle, where the interviewer described for an entire paragraph how she’d brought a container with boiled beets to eat and justified it by saying she was anemic. So I am thinking, great, now this woman has to justify eating…

I don’t know why anyone would want to do an interview over a meal. Do they like being seen in public with the celeb or something? Somewhat related, I once did a story on a famous chef in my city and we met at an extremely loud little bistro (not his, though). He ordered piles of charcuterie and all manner of finger…