Boing. Now I am going to see this - that line feels strangely familiar...

Maybe it seemed like we were screaming back and forth during the movie, but the only out loud part during the movie was me whispering to her “I think he’s the bear”, and her whispering back “Really, I don’t...”. The rest of the exchange was either internal or took place afterwards.

That’s kind of hilarious - I saw Blonde Katy on SNL - I think it was the debut of her new look? I was texting my friend the whole time “Um...is something wrong with Katy Perry?”. Because something was clearly wrong with Katy Perry.

Let’s just say he did something.

Taylor Swift.

Thanks! I knew there was some restriction on what name could be used where, but I haven’t really followed the character consistently enough to know - I thought he couldn’t be even called Marvel. His name is always Captain Marvel to me, though - now that fact doesn’t make me feel quite so old and out-of-touch.

I haven’t been watching Supergirl since it moved to the CW, which my rabbit ears didn’t pick up until...today, actually. Though I’ve been following the writeups here, and I watched a clip of Supergirl and Batwoman, and - yeah. Uh, yeah! “Kiss already”, as my TV-loving maiden aunts used to say.

Just realized how remarkable it is that they refer to “Captain Marvel”, I had thought that by the time of this novel the name was off-limits.

And huh, it looks like my rabbit ears suddenly pick up the local CW signal. Just in time!

If you find this remarkable, you must be even older than I am, and I didn’t think there was any such thing!

She’s fifteen years older - and of course in Grease he was playing quite a bit younger than he was, so she certainly seems old enough to be his mother.

Ha hahahahahahaha, that’s amazing. 

I guess that a person of color in a leading role was so rare at the time that it seemed it had to “mean” something, even in a role which clearly wasn’t written for an actor of any particular appearance. OTOH, that fact does lend his fate at the end some extra weight that it mightn’t have otherwise, though by all…

Roger Ebert wrote a great article in 1968 about the effect of a matinee screening of “Night of the Living Dead” on a theatre full of unsuspecting children

I think at the point that it’s Matthew Broderick, with whom the viewer was conditioned to view as identifiable. The subversion of the expectation is kind of the point of the casting, I think. So when he does something gross, you’re already identifying with him, and now you’re doubly uncomfortable because, ew, he's…

To be fair, she is I think a lot older than he is

Did Maura Tierney lift that performance note-for-note in NewsRadio intentionally? It's uncanny.

His sister is an actress called Ellen Travolta, who was one of the waitresses in Grease, and Scott Baio's mother in Joanie Loves Chachi. And looks exactly like Tomlin in them.

I...I did say “maybe” we were? 

Turmp U!