This is just so weird to me. Murphy is a very slender man to begin with! And putting yourself through a crash diet is really damaging to your body. I can see why, say, Matt Damon did it for The Martian, in which his character is starving to death, or Tom Hanks for Cast Away. And of course in a biopic you want to hew…

Unless there’s some reason to specifically point it out, please don’t write “adopted son/daughter.” Quintana Roo was Joan’s daughter, period. The fact that she joined the family through adoption isn’t relevant here, and pointing it out just perpetuates the mistaken assumption that an adopted child is different-than…

Whenever I see James Remar in something I remember that Roger Ebert, in reviewing the “Psycho” remake, said that the filmmakers had done something to Remar’s voice in post to make it unnaturally deep and that the effect was weird and distracting. Ebert had to post a correction after being informed that no, that’s just…

He was amazing in Wait Until Dark. A lot of people think he was too over-the-top but I think they’re missing the subtlety with which he ramps up the performance - the way he lulls the audience (and Hepburn’s character) into thinking he’s a standard bad guy with just a slightly creepy edge, but then we see that there’s…

I’m usually not a fan of the celebrity fragrances, but I admit my go-to “clean” scent is the original Sarah Jessica Parker “Lovely.” (It’s a bit easier for me to admit that fact since I read that Luca Turin likes it too - and Turin is usually pretty cutting about celeb fragrances!) It’s ... well, lovely, a powdery…

My impression is that those laws are only state laws, and only in a few states, unfortunately.

I had my only baby 30 years ago. They induced labor with Pitocin, which for many women makes contractions much more painful. Years later, a friend who had Pitocin induction told me that her caregivers advised her to get an epidural before the induction even started, and she did - her OB told her he thought it should…

Olyphant has this strange quality (to me, anyway) where without a cowboy hat on he’s handsome but nothing to write home about, but with a cowboy hat on he’s just devastatingly, achingly hot.

Also people calling him “sir.” I mean, I’m sure people do sometimes, but whenever he tells an obviously made-up story about people telling him how awesome he is, he always starts the pretend quote with “sir.”

Gordo and Tracy Stevens on “For All Mankind,” no question. Thanks to great, subtle writing - the characters truly seem like real people in a real marriage - and also wonderful performances by Michael Dorman and Sarah Jones, I loved following their story, and its resolution had me in floods of tears (and I am not a…

What’s especially funny is that you can put a special bag on the horse’s rear end to catch the poop! It’s done all the time for carriage rides, etc. Can’t believe nobody thought of that!

It reminds me of a few years ago when Mitch McConnell was going on and on about “traditional marriage.” I was like, you mean the kind where you don’t get divorced? Oh, you’ve been divorced. You mean the kind where both spouses are of the same race? Oh, your wife is Asian and you’re white. Maybe the kind where the…

Or Nancy Reagan supporting stem-cell research during Ronnie’s battle with Alzheimer’s.

This is reminding me of Letterkenny: “We’re gonna have a donnybrook!”

I really don’t know what’s worse, Zillion Heir or Powerful Queen. (Like, I like the idea of a first name that means “Powerful,” but imagine every day saying “Powerful, did you feed the dog?”)

He’s since corrected to “genteel,” so apparently it was a spelling error (if a rather Freudian one). Right up there with MTG and the “gazpacho.”

I’d love to see an adaptation of “The Boogeyman.” All these years later I can remember that absolute scalp-freezer of an ending. It’d be a tour-de-force for the right actor, someone who could really execute the slow burn of the patient gradually opening up and finally talking about his anguish and fear . . . hoping…

You know, as a book editor myself, I usually think King’s books need a much stronger editing hand to chop them down to size. (Many wildly successful authors start to think that every word they write is pure gold, and often their publishers are reluctant to disagree and possibly alienate them. I think that’s been the…

Same level, but there’s been public blowback against Camilla taking the title of queen when Charles ascends to the throne, mainly because of lingering public resentment about the fact that he cheated on Diana with her. Recently the Queen issued a statement saying that she hoped Camilla would get the title when the…

And yet they’ve got plenty of money to pay settlements for their rapist family members instead of, you know, letting them take the rap like any old non-Windsor Joe Schmo.