Ah! That’s why whenever I tried to search for “Abba Solitaire” I got the Carpenters’ version (but never the Agentha Faltskog version). I’m always impressed at how Karen Carpenter made her voice so deep and resonant.

I remember people used to refer to him as Damien Thorne.

Yeah, she’s one of those reality TV “losers” who got bigger afterward than the winner of her season (see also Carla Hall of Top Chef). I loved most of Tabatha’s show (there was one season that seemed to think the appeal of the show was watching her yell at jerks instead of helping improve things, sometimes), there…

The “Popular Film” category is going to get gamed by the studios the same way we end up with “The Martian” winning the Best Comedy Film Globe. However they define it, the studios and academy voters won’t be putting Jurrasic Park type movies in there.

The Daytime Emmys now get broadcast off and on. After the big three dumped it, The CW aired it one summer, then HLN aired it for two years. POP was the last channel to air it. The last three have just been broadcast online. Without a large number of soaps, there’s not much drama to the Daytime Emmys, few people are…

“Solitaire”? The Laura Branigan song? Or did Abba record a song called “Solitaire” I can’t find?

I miss those days, when Bravo tried to have a competition show for fashion, cooking, hairstyling and design (too bad there isn’t really a “Culture Vulture” job that could be a show). They eventually did a dance show that ended up being homophobic (or, at least, heterosexist). I can enjoy the RH shows sometimes and I…

Yeah, I thought her politics were pretty clear. I didn’t feel the need to find a political label to apply to her and while I’d like to know more about Detroit, I felt like she was a pretty complete character.

He wrote that Newsweek piece for attention and there’s little in his history to think he’d be above asking an “edgy” question that borders on transphobia. However, Cox knows how to handle those questions with grace and Bono has media outreach experience working for GLAAD, so they might have felt ready if that came up.…

Perhaps it was a matter of a personal grudge (which we are seeing through one participant’s viewpoint)? Setoodeh was the guy who said gay actors can’t play straight characters and said some very insulting things about Johnathan Groff’s performance on Glee to argue the point. We’re hearing it from Setoodeh’s viewpoint,…

It’s probably about the price tag to someone like Mannafort but it’s also worth remembering that Mannafort probably couldn’t buy most fashion. The way he did business, he usually paid with a wire transfer and, apparently, in fashion a lot of the luxury brands that are known for quality don’t do that kind of…

Who, on their first watching of the new Queer Eye, pegged Bobby as the one with the “bad boy” history?

Sadly, I am actually surprised to see two women and one man who seem to be of Asian descent. The way Lost treated its PoC characters, I’m surprised they passed the very low bar I had for them.

One of the qualities that got me to quit Lost was that writers seemed to lose interest in writing the female and non-white characters as anything more than accessories or background decoration to the straight white men. They get two powerhouses like Michelle Rodriguez and Cyntha Watros but can’t figure out any…

Can we go back to the days when the people who were “famous for being famous” stayed popular because, while they didn’t have a huge performing career, they were incredibly entertaining when they appeared on a talk or game show?

I really, really want a fun Asian-American led comedy but, like Better Luck Tomorrow, I just want to get away from the characters and not spend time around them. I’m probably setting a higher bar for Asian-American visibility because there’s so little of it that there’s no ‘oh well, I’ll just watch that other movie…

When Radar was an interesting magazine and something for Gawker Media to punch down at there was a long article about Cruise’s experience with the church and how far they go to control what Cruise sees of the world. The people around him work very hard (and put even more people to work) to control how Cruise perceives…

With someone like Mooneves, it’s not just casting where he could have used his power. He decided which shows got on the air and which ones stayed on the air. (Worth noting that CBS was known as a network with ratings so good it could cancel shows that had ratings rival networks would envy.) He could use the threat of…

From what I remember it was about a man who got away from the village that conducted the lottery but came back with his wife because of some family situation (like his father died or natural causes just in time for his funeral to occur just before lottery day). Russell is all, “I don’t get why you’re so tense, this…

That statement feels pretty disingenuous coming from the network that aired Million Dollar Extreme, a show where the censors had to demand that hidden swastikas be removed before going to air.