The final lifting of the Hayes Code and the gradual end of the blacklist also contributed to defiant "pushing the boundaries" … a level of adventuresomeness which sadly then disappeared very very quickly. It's impossible to imagine anyone attempting "Last Tango in Paris" or even "Taxi Driver" in 2016 … which like the…

It's fun to remember also — which I saw recently back to back on TCM —
Your a Big Boy Now (1966, Coppola) and
Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying terrible things about me?) (also with Hoffman, 1971) —
see also Blow-Up (1966) and
Morgan (A suitable case for treatment) (1966) which has even more in common with…

yes, that was a very "you know something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" moment. I think there were a lot of people who saw Mike Nichols/Buck Henry (even way back then) and said, this must be a comedy, a very very hip comedy and so they laughed their obligatory laugh, rather than admit…

I wondered how long before Elaine declared she really needed to call and check on her mother … and if they had enough money between them for a hotel … It like running away from home when you're 5 … eventually you miss the considerable luxury of a someone offering to make you a sandwich.

Eric Fromm's Escape from Freedom comes to mind — Benjamin was paralyzed by his newly achieved status as "The Graduate," feeling both terrified and a fraud … by "burning his bridges" he made his immediate future (which we don't see) revert very quickly to dealing with the immediate, survival — where would they go,…

A lot of reporters these days are 'stenographers' who rewrite press releases and tightly controlled "press conferences" as it it were news …
I've found several sites that used to represent "heterogeneous" coverage are increasingly shaping the narrative — and I can no longer trust them (or their writers) — there no…

I don't watch the TV show so I've only seen the website. I don't get the feeling they care much about someone's secret vices — or addictions, except when they are sufficiently out of control that they are public (enough). I think that some one in the Malibu Sheriff's department was reprimanded over Gibson's documents…

I tend to think of that as an OJ effect … lots of folks were "vaguely" aware of the domestic violence in his marriage … and sure, the police in some very affluent areas are intimidated by the louder and more threatening, recognizable local alcoholic drivers — and there are plenty in many communities who — like OJ…

I appreciate that they generally handle substance abuse/abusers "gently," if sometimes relentlessly … I'd guess their coverage makes it "easier" for friends and family to confront the elephant in the living room and get people to agree to some form of intervention.

Harvey Levin was a Los Angeles CBS evening news character — usually legal affairs, not always (I remember him well in galoshes covering torrential rains out by the Serra Retreat in Malibu on year, the runoff came up to his ankles!!!!)

Yes, they were reintroduced to the family as an orphan when they were old enough to be able to convincing be calculated to not be a natural-born child … so Marigold might add a year or lose a year in age but at 4 or 5 might genuinely only think of Edith as "that nice lady" who occasionally visited in her old life when…

Once burned twice shy, I'm guessing Fellowes was unwilling to risk the loss of Julian Ovenden to more exciting opportunities. He's been madly busy since leaving Downton … Fellowes may have demanded on an end-of-run contract … (since at that time the end of Downton was still beyond the horizon).
It was handled badly ……

Is Marigold still the adopted child (of a dead friend of Mr. Drewe) that the Drewes (specifically Mrs. Drewe) could not make room for or afford to raise after all? I can't remember.
Someone like Edith having a child out of wedlock was less "unthinkable" than her parading around with the child in arms… My…

Violet — absolutely positively — would have made sure the daughters were properly taught … particularly since Cora was a foreigner and of low birth….
I'm surprised she didn't go-off on Cora for Mary and Edith's dismal performance.

Maybe Violet will simply stroke out … I doubt (sigh) we've heard the last from her on the matter… and Lord Merton is back … just in time for something… with his creepy smirking soon to be daughter-in-law

ugh, meaning that all 3 women as well as Tom (who's not really an "eligible bachelor" in that set) and Napier were just props for surprising Henry … Henry noticed and he moved in for the oh-so-accidental I'm-gonna-marry-you-girl moment.

I've wondered if the actor Fellowes had selected for the role backed out and he was unable/unwilling to change the storyline …

Molesley has been the hapless victim repeatedly … for whatever reason anyone (Unca Julian) cared to pin on his back like a "kick me" sign.
Bates was victim because he had a leg wound

Coupled with Carson's metamorphosis into Mr. Toad of Toad Hall, perhaps the ever conservative Mr. Fellowes is trying to show that Daisy (and Carson) having been blessed with their heart's desire are still unsatisfied, still striving for more control, until THEY become the tyrants in their downstairs proletarian world…

I'm frustrated because — looking closely — I have seen the evolution of the Mary-Henry romance and most people say they have no chemistry… see nothing between them. I blame poor camera work, since it have been conveyed in their eyes and in Mary's impatient anticipation of Henry's reaction(s). It's all pretty…