Agreed regarding Nasim Pedrad - she needs to be in more stuff.

I think they use cue cards, not a teleprompter. And if you're going to come down on someone for looking at cue cards then the SNL world as we know it has no meaning.

Right?! Plus, she's in the upcoming Nickelodeon (not Disney) movie, The Lunch Bunch Detectives.

Yeah, unlike the reviewer, I thought the near-death sketch with McKinnon's Rafferty was pretty strong, maybe because I don't remember (or didn't see) the one with Gosling. Anyway, it had me laughing out loud. Props to McKinnon for being able to deliver those lines while teetering on the brink of breaking.

Kind of explains that whole mermaid thing.

[* Bites pillow? *]

Those four nominations were . . .
Bette Davis (Best Actress),
Anne Baxter (Best Actress),
Celeste Holm (Best Supporting Actress),
and last, but certainly not least, the great Thelma Ritter (Best Supporting Actress - her first of six nominations in that category).

Regarding Orson Welles, in addition to being a great actor and director he was also a great writer, having written the original screenplay for Citizen Kane, and adapted screenplays for The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, and Touch of Evil.

Can a battleship make it up the Mississippi to St. Louis? After some quick research, I don't think so. The USS Missouri has a draft of 28.9 feet, while the Army Corps of Engineers maintains a guaranteed channel depth of only 9 feet in most of the Mississippi River, including the St. Louis area.

I didn't know the Missouri was in Hawaii either. I took a tour of the ship when she was in Seattle years ago.

I'm no fan of anything Disney but I might give her a pass on this. She teaches in Lake Wales, which is about 50 miles from Orlando, so not much of a trip. Also, not knowing the socioeconomic makeup of her students, it's possible many (most? all?) have never been to Disney even though it's just down the road. Is it…

How do you fell about the revival of MST3K? Optimistic?
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It's only a hung jury if some can come to a conclusion and some can't. If all of the juror's agree that they can't come to a conclusion ("We don't know if the guy's guilty or not."), then it's a not guilty. A guilty verdict is a conclusion. A not guilty verdict is a unanimous decision that they can't reach a…

Right, jurors can't conduct independent investigations. But juries are allowed to use their common sense to make their own inferences from the evidence, including discussing alternative scenarios or reasonable explanations inconsistent with guilt. They wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't.

The jury didn't find the defendant innocent - they found him not guilty, which, by definition, means they could not come to a conclusion (regarding guilt beyond a reasonable doubt). Juries that find a defendant not guilty are in effect saying they could not come to a conclusion. At least that's the way it's suppose to…

Other than Henry Fonda bringing a duplicate switchblade into the jury room (which I agree is a big no-no), what else does the jury do that's illegal?

I also loved him in 12 Angry Men (1957). Early in his career, but he held his own against some real heavyweights.

I have to admit I flaked out on Dracula as well. Stupidly obvious in retrospect. For some reason I thought it came out long before 1897.

Or . . . maybe Jeopardy! could chip in a few shekels from the millions they get from Aleve (Bayer).

Our local Jeopardy! affiliate loves to interrupt the show for meaningless "severe" weather updates also. Then they use half the time to push their groovy local weather app.