She could have just waited. He was old enough to be her grandfather, something I kept wishing *someone* in the movie would point out to her.

It's always amazing to me that Burnett and the Smothers Brothers were on the same network at the same time. They seem like different generations (and musically, they were). And yet, I found both funny, both then and now, though I only ever liked the music on the Smothers Brothers.

I doubt that very much. By all reports, Burnett was (and is) a kind and exceptionally generous star/boss. Vicki Lawrence talks about her shock when she moved on to other jobs and found out how unlike the rest of showbiz Burnett made the working environment.

Interesting, because I really hate the BROADCAST NEWS epilogue; I think it was completely misplaced, and the movie should have ended with Jane, very upset, still stuttering out driving directions to the cab drivers.

Spike started out fairly awful but got much better over time. Drusilla was always just terrible.

Haven't seen any of those, but way back in 1970 MAUDE did a pretty impressive job.

The Guardian said the defense argued that the evidence shouldn't be admitted because the "casting couch" was a common industry practice and therefore these women's evidence did not create a signature pattern. If I were a male working in the industry I'd be pretty unhappy about that argument.

I actually thought the show did set up Rita's decision rather well, and I wasn't as surprised as all that. The hints that she'd exceptionally cleaned up; the nostalgia for their old song; the decision to give him the tape - all of these made the result of her succession of escalators seem inevitable, to me.

With the sole exception of Conrad Hilton.

Do it!

Gloria Swanson, I would have thought. :)

Janet is a robot. You don't "murder" a chainsaw.

But she threw up. Don't we all know that's the sure-fire sign of pregnancy for TV women?

The hallway scene reminded me of the stateroom scene in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, and I think there was a line that specifically referenced the Marx Brothers, suggesting this was indeed intended as a small homage (the hall was way too big). I hope someone sees Elaine May in this and casts her in something worthy of the…

Not out of character: she's done it before, in the mall episode in season 2.

The great singer Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention) died that way - she was 31, fell down the stairs, and apparently had a concussion she did nothing about. Died several days later.