Growing up in India (and many other places), when she did, I could see that drinking water the way we do now wouldn’t be practical. Tea and alcohol make sense because tea must be made with heated water and of course wine is alcohol. Having said that, while I’m all for “following your bliss”, and appreciate that yoga…

I can’t deny Woddy Allens impact on comedy and film, but to me his work always reeked of misogyny and narcissism, before I even understood those terms. I appreciate Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo, but to me he is nothing if not incredibly overrated, much like some others have said of Polanski and Hitchcock.

For real. I have always felt like, “Am I missing something?” Though, no, I’m not.

I’m happy to know I’m not the only person who has dropped people over Polanski. Apparently I offended some people one night by openly stating I felt that not only was Woody Allen overrated but that marrying ones stepdaughter that he groomed and Polaroided struck me as disgusting. Oops, didn’t get invited back to more…

I’m with you on all of this but especially on Hitchcock being way overrated. He was just a successful director whose work was easy to repackage into “Hollywood’s Golden Era” crap when cable television and then videos came out, so that whole thing became a lucrative business in itself and he has become thought of as a…

Yes, that was appalling and exploitive, too.

Absolutely, and scum like him have been able to still prosper in the US because of our healthcare issues, unlike say, Canada and the U.K., et al. I’m very sorry about your sister and for what piece of shit, on- the-take scam artists like Dr. Oz do in the name of “health”. Something that has helped me feel somewhat…

Ha, I can totally picture him cool dadding it! His trying too hard, over-dyed hair speaks volumes.

Not nuts! We’ve just unexpectedly lost a very smart, wise, experienced, thoroughly professional journalist — an actual journalist— during a sickening time. It’s crazy here with the president-elect appointing former heads of “news” networks to his cabinet. You aren’t nuts to miss her!

That’s a perfect description of my anxiety level too! Even my index finger is traumatized.

Yes, they absolutely were.

So very, very true that she’s just about the last person we should have lost.

So well put! Thank you. When this story broke this afternoon I was stunned and you have summed up my feeling of loss well.

Yeah, but Kanye as first spouse would at least be more entertaining than what we’ll be getting.

Yes! I moved to Boston from NYC (not a native NYer, but had to move for work) and OMG, Bostonians aren’t as helpful as NYers. They just don’t care! And I knew pre-9/11 NYC, too. Boston’s attitude is still, “Hey, nobody invited you people, so go to your Red Sox game and get the hell out”, while New York knows it’s the…

I feel for you. I expected my parents to die, at some point, but unless your husband was decades and decades older than you and critically ill, this sounds like such a shock. That pain is the worst. Glad to hear you got through. It would devastate me.

I like it for it’s potential corruption charges using RNC funds to pay off this mistress but no, this is hardly a game changer.

These celebrities must get some of compensation for this shit or, more likely, they are made to sit for these since NBC is often the parent company of their employer too and it’s probably in their contract to do this crap as part of promotion. They have to sit there and look and act impressed! How disgusting!

Yes, she especially bothers me and I despise all those “psychics”, like to almost Houdini proportions! There’s a guy on YouTube who posted a chat transcript (with permission) with the sister of Stacey Peterson, a missing Chicago area woman who was the wife of police officer Drew Peterson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Probably a new mistress.