Wish I could give you a hug. I had a nervous breakdown in college my senior year and dropped out…25 years later I still battle depression every day. (Yes, I am medicated.) There is so much shame that goes along with depression and the way it limits what we are able to do, and that shame is hard to let go of. Just keep…

I'm not a woman who is usually attracted to the bad boys, but Spike…mm-hm.

Oh, I agree. That whole premise, of Leonard hiding money from her, was just more of the same problems we've seen with them over and over and over again. It just felt like the resolution was slightly more believable than it usually is.

Yes, that was some great physical humor.

I had the show on but wasn't really paying attention till the last half, I thought there were some strong moments in that last half, though. Leonard and Penny's conversation after Sheldon's "reveal" seemed far, far more adult and real than just about any conflict they've ever had. It felt like a real married couple…

"Wooden Ships," CSNY. "Can you tell me please, who won?"

Every couple of years I sit down and have myself a DVD double feature of Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May. They go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Problem is, they have a built-in audience of churchgoers who will go to see any religious movie no matter how bad it is, so there's no incentive to improve.

She sounds just as sweet as I thought she would be! I just love seeing her pop up in movies and TV shows. What a great interview!

Robert Walker is astonishing in that movie. And my favorite thing about Notorious is Claude Rains (another under-appreciated old time actor.) He's so weak yet so sinister.

I also love her in The Best Years of Our Lives. She just glows in that film.

There are a lot of parallel/twinned shots in the movie. For instance we meet Uncle Charlie laying on his back on a bed, thinking, and we meet young Charlie laying on her back on a bed, thinking. I've got a Hitchcock book that points out tons of these scenes.

I adore this movie. Teresa Wright is just perfection as she moves from naivete to a real awareness of evil, and Joseph Cotten is also at his best. And the two of them stand out so sharply against the non-spectacular actors that play the rest of the roles. Everyone else in the film is sort of schlubby and goofy and…

We were at an Oscar party the night of Mitch and Mickey, and the party crowd's reaction was a decided, "Huh??" It seemed like the ceremony crowd's reaction was the same. It was so wonderfully awkward, like only five people in the world had actually seen A Mighty Wind at that point in time, and everyone else had no…

Goddamit. My dad just found out today that his brain cancer is back. Didn't really need to see this. All my sympathy to Mr. Gerson's family. I adore Monsters, Inc.

Sorry you're having a rough day. I don't know what you can stream there, but the first three seasons of Community are really fun. And I will always love Seinfeld. But my favorite show when I'm in a funk is It's Always Sunny. There's something oddly reassuring about watching awful people behaving awfully.

Our DVD/Bluray player flashes "See You" about 15 times when you turn it off. It freaks the shit out of me, esp. when I'm turning it off before bed.

Me, too, I was picturing a Frances Sternhagen type of woman, but with aTexas accent.

I read Esther Williams' memoir (The Million Dollar Mermaid) a few years ago, and she had some really hair-raising close calls while filming. One involved a tiara on her head that snapped her head back as she did a dive, and another involved a black-painted tank with a hidden door. They finished filming the scene,…

Well, damn. That man made me laugh. Might have to go listen to some "Garish Summit" bits in his memory…