while Frank Fay was indeed a raging anti-semite, he was not actually a fascist” although “we [...] see nothing wrong with being a fascist”.

Clarice is apparently getting a second season, but on Paramount +, not CBS.

Frank Fay was a vaudevillian and actor. He was also Barbara Stanwyck’s violently abusive first husband, a racist, an anti-Semite and a straight-up fascist who was rooting for the Nazis (not even kidding). He was an awful, hateful person. He is also, weirdly, an important progenitor of modern stand-up comedy. He made a…

If you saw it at a sleepover, you probably still have a warm fuzzy or two for it. They fix themselves in your brain permanently at that age.

The Christmas Setup and Dashing in December were exactly what I wanted in queer holiday romcom fluff. Happiest Season was.. not that. Maybe if it had been marketed better I’d have been braced for yet another angsty coming-out, but alas. Waste of Aubrey Plaza and Dan Levy.

Owning the land and owning the team are very different things. If he pays them, then they work for him, and there was never any implication this was the case (nor would it have been appealing to much of the team).

He wouldn’t have been paying them a salary, though, because they didn’t work for him. The Avengers weren’t Tony’s personal team. He’d have been subsidizing them as a charitable gift, and I doubt that would have gone over well. Sam might need money, but he’s unlikely to want it as a handout.

Yeah, okay, that? That’s very true. I love her, but no. Kinda brings us back around to Betty Hutton, sadly for ears.

Ah well, it hasn’t happened for me in x-many years, so you can have my share of that last one. She seems like a sweet gal, but that doesn’t mean I want her taking screentime from Ginger, Joan Blondell or (dreamy sigh) Aline MacMahon.

Tsch, why would you want your ingenue to have a blend of grace and strength, of elegance and agility,when you can have KLONK KLONK KLONK?

Hutton is to singing as Ruby Keeler is to dancing.

She was, played (very funnily) by Adrianne Palicki, a 5'10" Amazon who couldn’t blend in if she tried.

Right? It always seems odd to me that people act like Morgan Stark was the only one who had been been born since the Snap, and not millions of Earthlings and an exponentially larger number of beings throughout the universe. Their existence is reality now, too. Unmaking them by undoing the Snap (if it were possible,…

He’s downright heroic in The Mask of Dimitrios, and in Three Strangers he’s sweet, sympathetic and he even gets the girl. I haven’t seen all of his movies, but I’ve seen a good number of them, and I don’t remember that ever happening before.

Mostly what it makes clear to me is that Dawson and Tony had seen a very limited number of Gary Cooper movies.

I had to stay until we lost Lagertha (woe!), and I’ll probably watch this ep for the last of Bjorn, but I just can’t work up any interest for the rest of it. Gunnhild’s fine, I guess, but everyone else we have left is either dull or irritating. Or both- every scene with Ivar or Oleg causes me actual pain. I do…

The funny thing is, Hanukkah is as close to a secular Jewish holiday as it gets. It’s a minor feast with no religious importance to speak of. It’s not based on a Biblical text (First and Second Maccabees are not part of the Tanakh and Hanukkah is mentioned only in passing in the Talmud [cmpr. to the deep, deep dives…

Yeah, I’m hoping that was just awkwardly phrased or got mangled in the editing or something, because otherwise that’s just... very wrong.

Wrong Cuomo. Chris is the one on CNN; Andrew’s the governor.

My college roommate was like that. Not that it had come up very often to that point, since she grew up in Ohio.