I was in Los Angeles and there was NO anticipation of rioting in case of conviction … OJ was not "beloved" of the black community, he lived in that other primarily white Los Angeles … apolitical even invisible, very "I got mine" …

yes, it felt a great deal as if they couldn't face reviewing all the evidence… Cochrane had given them an "out" and they jumped at it … and his argument gave them a "defiant" posture to counter the many who were genuinely horrified by the speed at which the verdict was returned … it seems likely that they dispensed…

As I recall there were people who celebrated Cochrane's victory — local hero, friend of the black community — who believed OJ was guilty … because that was what mattered to THEM. The murder and murderer of Nicole and Ron did not matter … they were dead. Another notch in local legal legend … thumbs up.
It was really…

Morgan, A suitable case for treatment — David Warner
and his mom ….
hands down.
Warren Beatty as John Reed in Reds rates a close second.

I haven't signed up for a Free Pandora radio account … I'm a bit of a privacy advocate and I'm not sure of the cost/risk benefits … I don't use an ipod and have a good stereo. For others it's probably a great feature.

Amazon comparisons can probably tell you … the more advanced Roku (than my old model) have a headphone jack (in the remote useful for watching in bed I guess) and I think I read something about voice-controls in search functions.
PBS menu on Roku beats the hell out of the website (although my smart TV netflix menu is…

Of course, once she returned, we understood that she had gone to France just so she could return to "deal with Mary" in her very special "we're so alike" way — except I suspect Violet is a deadly bridge player and Mary never really mastered the game … see also social conversation.

No, he's a snake … let him stay at Downton with Mary and George — his own kind of family.

The commercial — I think — helps make video downloading damn near impossible (with various c/net download options) … but I may be wrong. I wanted to see if I could download PBS in the middle of the night to get a more "seamless" experience.
Registering with PBS really does improve the streaming experience … but my…

I couldn't find out how or if a Roku would work with less than the recommended internet speed of 3.0 mbps but decided to give it a try using a circa-$30 used model from Goodwill (because the internet website streaming experience was often so terrible). I haven't tried to record off Roku but I gather some things can…

I recently got a used Roku Box because my "smart TV" does not have a PBS app available. For reasons I utterly don't understand PBS streams better via Roku (wired) than it does on my desktop (also wired) — even though my internet speed is often a lousy 0.5 mbps … It not infrequently has to pause for buffering, but…

If you have them available you can watch on line video stream at PBS video and usually by now on Roku and other apps,

yes, exactly where they were going after the wedding was a mystery … I understand that they'll be living with Ma and Pa Crawley at Downton .. but how he will manage his "commute" to his cars and how much that occupies is days and weeks is a mystery. He brings nothing useful to marriage … we will hope he's fabulous in…

There's been no hint of addressing Henry Talbot as Mary's boy toy which will quickly become his reputation among the upper crust set … he brings NOTHING to the estate except an expensive hobby and those gorgeous blue eyes. Blake actually knew something about running an estate and had a sense of humor (which I firmly…

She went full Disney Cruella DeVille … I wasn't impressed because her character was almost unrecognizable which really isn't a.good.thing. It was great to see everyone actually getting a chance to emote even cry and be angry (far too little of that throughout the years) … but Dockery slipped into caricature … her…

It struck me also that Violet's best friend is the very middle class Isobel, who is the same generation as Cora, who Violet has (apparently) learned to tolerate over the last 30 years, with out a great deal of enthusiasm. (I'd rather she end up with Clarkson - assuming he's not an alcoholic — but Merton will do)

Although it's changing slowly, Television teaches us certain "moral lessons" — that no bad deed goes utterly unpunished, "cheaters never prosper" and other mundane "truths'" that go usually go unchallenged, and have become deeply embedded in Americans' expectation of story arcs and in many ways are part of "American…

People who hate that movie, hate it passionately. It's a movie that, in my experience, it's dangerous to admit liking — at least among women I've known, who consider it misogynistic sado-porn, reveling in the degradation of women…. all "Lives of the Saints" utterly rejected. (I thought it was actually rather sweet and…

In 1967, the idea that a woman her character's age could be sexual, much less sexually aggressive was pretty ground-breaking at the time … and would not have been even suggested under the Hayes Code. Making her "despicable" or "monstrous" was a likely concession to those offended by the mere suggestion of her (OMG)…

Actually as I recall, I was about 8 or 9, and the subject was relevant as to why she and her best friend stayed in unhappy, even mentally abusive marriages … the idea that that people "claim" to want freedom and yet resist all sorts of chances to actually break free … that there are secondary gains to be imprisoned.…