This is a tricky thing, and not just for the logistical reasons that others will mention—this girl was 16 years old, and by this point, parents should be giving kids some level of autonomy. Otherwise, when they hit 18, they're suddenly going to have all this freedom and no idea what to do with it. So it's normal and…

I know...it's less dramatic even than the sprinkle of cinnamon I had on my latte today.

I wonder if Phyllida Lloyd is a better stage director than a film director?

Ah, you're probably correct. I was half-imagining everyone clearing out the shelves to send gifts to Kate.

Oh boy. I was with you up until you started in on that tired old business about how "sad" it makes you to see your friends taking their husband's names. Screw your sadness and its attendant implication that they haven't thought about what they're doing.

Retailers are expecting huge increase in the sale of maternity clothes? Buying maternity clothes when someone else becomes pregnant is a thing?

I thought that, too; but then I also thought the same thing about Ben Stiller not being actually funny.

The AP report said under 12 weeks, which apparently is why they're not yet announcing the due date.

Those are two separate things—the game was an *indicator* of the problems with their dynamic, not a cause. The cheating was a cause, but she doesn't claim otherwise. If you get a red light on your dashboard, you don't say that the red light is what's causing your engine to fail, but it's the red light that's informing…

Exactly...it's very weird to me when these rumors come from the UK—aren't they familiar with the way succession works in their own country?

That's the first thing I noticed, too! I'm glad someone picked up on that.

I think this would be more troublesome if Liz Lemon had ever been presented as a totally together character that every woman is supposed to emulate in every way, which she hasn't.

In fairness, I think that the Golden Girls did that because they were trying to launch that dismal spinoff, Golden Palace, and Bea Arthur didn't want to participate, so they had to find a way to write her out of Miami.

I loved her and Carol, but once he pointed a gun at her and she tried to use an old man as a human shield, I think they pretty much burned all those bridges.

Her serious medical problems also predated her trip to Hungary, and she nonetheless chose to visit a place where she did not trust the medical care available. I understand Laura Beck's point about being set in one's ways, doctor-wise, but if you are a chronically, seriously ill person, you must accept that being set…

Truly. He made a real hash of that during his Moneyball press tour, if I remember correctly.

Ugh, Brad Pitt. He doesn't need to tell me why he is or isn't married or how he feels about it, but since he did: how is it that these people have three marriages between them already, and yet "didn't realize how much it means"?

Ah. Yes, then I misunderstood you.