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I want a murder mystery based on those annoying Final Expenses commercials where someone is bumped off after telling loved ones all money worries will be gone after their demise.

TCM Remembers Joan Plowright

TCM Remembers David Lynch

Joan Plowright starred in two of my favorite films - Widows' Peak and Enchanted April. The latter I watch every - April. Impeccable comic timing in both. May she rest in peace.

The AI was bad and if this gullible woman read articles about Pitt and Ines de Ramon, why did she not pay heed no one in the industry also spoke of Pitt's serious health problems? OTOH, last month I listened to that Sweet Bobby podcast where an intelligent woman apparently never asked herself why a man supposedly in the witness protection program kept reaching out to her, family, and friends. And let's not forget the "Tinder Swindler" who constantly asked for money to protect him from his enemies. I've come to the conclusion scammers have a sixth sense on whom they can play the long con on. They move quickly from hardcore skeptics and know what buttons to push for those who might take the bait. I would have been the former and told "Brad" to go ask George Clooney for a few bucks.

Woman divorces husband and transfers life savings to scammer(s?) pretending to be Brad Pitt. https://people.com/scammers-brad-pitt-swindled-woman-report-8774403 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ai-brad-pitt-scammed-french-woman-life-savings-1236108694/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/fake-brad-pitt-images-scam-woman-out-of-850k/ https://ew.com/brad-pitt-reps-warn-against-scammers-after-fan-loses-850000-dollars-8774719 https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/ai-brad-pitt-scam-french-woman-loses-850000-1235235673/

Harvey Laidman who directed such television shows as The Waltons, Matlock, Hawaii 5-O and Eight is Enough has died, age 82. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/harvey-laidman-dead-waltons-matlock-7th-heaven-1236106621/ https://deadline.com/2025/01/harvey-laidman-dead-the-waltons-matlock-director-1236254770/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/people-news/harvey-laidman-dead-the-waltons-hawaii-five-o-1236272560/

Costume Designer Phyllis Dalton who won Academy Awards for Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Henry V (1989), an Emmy The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) and created Peter O'Toole's iconic white desert robe for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia has died, age 99. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/phyllis-dalton-dead-lawrence-of-arabia-doctor-zhivago-costume-designer-1236107231/ https://www.thewrap.com/phyllis-dalton-dead-lawrence-of-arabia-costume-designer/

Another soap opera legend, gone. It’s been à brutal past few years for the daytime television world. R.I.P. Ms. Charleson.

I hope Jocelyn Wildenstein has now found peace. All that plastic surgery to look like a cat! Yes. Anita Pointer dying on December 31, 2022 meant any end-of-year tributes would have been moved to 2023, not 2024.