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No! This makes me so sad. I saw Hinton Battle on Broadway as the Scarecrow in The Wiz, when he was still a teenager (so was I) and he was already wonderful! He was a huge talent. @ebk57 I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend.

I can't disagree with you. As constructed, they sure look to be the favorites to win the AL pennant, IMO. Barring injuries, Orioles/Dodgers looks like a good pre-season bet for the WS. Of course, they have to play 162, and stuff happens.

Like others, I thought Blue Ivy looked lovely, but I was shocked at how grown up she is now. I was thinking, "Who is the young woman at the Carters' table? It can't possibly be Blue Ivy!" Seriously, in my mind she's like seven or eight. 😄 This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I felt uncomfortable for her. She really didn't seem to want to take the stage with her father and truthfully, why did Jay-Z take her up there with him anyway? Similarly, why did Taylor Swift drag Lana Del Rey up on the stage with her when she won AOTY? First off, poor Lana had just LOST to Taylor in the AOTY category and she looked very uncomfortable with being led to the stage. Obviously, they were both sitting at the same table with Jack Antonoff, who had produced both of their albums, so Antonoff being on stage made sense, but not LDR. I've noticed this happening at other awards shows over the past few years, too. Perhaps it's time for the various shows to have an official rule that only those people directly involved with the project take the stage. Now get off my lawn!

With the site down, I missed being able to live-chat the ceremony here last night! It was a great show with many excellent performances. I wonder what Taylor Swift's plan was going to be for her new album announcement had she not won a Grammy. 🤔

Week 21: 1/5. (W)

Week 20: 2/5. (T, F) LL Bean reminds me of trips to Maine, including visiting the flagship store in Freeport. Much lobster was consumed! How about some lobster rolls for the table?

L.L. Bean now calls it the Bean Boot. For generations, it was known as their Duck Boot, as it was originally marketed to duck hunters. Those boots are why FJ was an instaget for me. I first read the hunting clothes clue, but zeroed in on Teddy Roosevelt's acknowledgment of the shoes. Those boots were L.L. Bean's original claim to fame.

https://www.pbs.org/show/funny-woman @JudyObscure Episodes 2 and 3 are streaming at the aboove PBS website for free. I'd think that Ep. 2 will be removed when Ep. 4 airs on Sunday so act quickly. Ep. 1 IMO, was weak in relation to 2 & 3. I don't think you miss all that much without seeing the pilot. There's a recap of the important moments from Ep. 1 at the beginning of Ep. 2 and I'm spoiler tagging a brief description of Ep. 1 for you.

CBS' Sunday Morning pays tribute to Charles Osgood.

Tonight's was a very good episode. There were some very good head-to-head battles and a heartwarming ending with Steve and Stephanie sharing the night's $20,000 prize for the most territory. I had to laugh at the final battle of the night. You can't call yourself an expert on movie quotes and lose on a famous quote from The Godfather, one of the most quotable films of all time! Bye Felicia! 😄

RE: Music categories. Is there some unwritten Academy rule that Diane Warren has to get a Best Original Song nomination nearly every year? I was hoping Lenny Kravitz would get a nomination for "Road to Freedom" from Rustin. Nice to see a posthumous nomination go to Robbie Robertson's score for Killers of the Flower Moon.

Wow, we seem to have lost A LOT of posts in our thread here since the recent updates. 😢 Anyway, Mary McCormack and Josh Malina have made a couple of interesting posts on Twitter/X over the past few days. We'll have to see what they're up to on Wednesday.

Final Season Trailer. Three episode premiere on February 21st.

The show has really hit its stride now, IMO. I'm enjoying the friendship between Sophie and Diane. The scene in the department store where Barbara used to work was a delightful tour de force of Gemma's comedic talent. I was iffy on this show one episode in. Episode 2 was an improvement. Now, I can't wait for next week!

In my opinion, from watching the show and from listening to what LeVar said, the reason for his shock at having a direct white ancestor was because, in his words, "it was so close." He actually knew and remembers his great-grandmother. To discover that she, herself was half-white was the shock. Had Dr. Gates informed him, hypothetically that his say, fourth great grandfather was a white man who owned the plantation that LeVar's enslaved ancestors lived and worked on, that probably wouldn't have been particularly shocking to him; but discovering that the "Granny" he knew as a child was fathered by a white man was certainly a shock. I thought this episode was great.

I have a feeling I'm not the only viewer who has given up on trying to figure out the ridiculous layers of competitions the J! producers have set up to ultimately get us to the TOC. I really don't care any more. I'm just watching some sort of Jeopardy! game at this point, where I occasionally recognize one of the faces.

Week 19: 1/5 (F) Thank goodness for Calder! At least I had a respectable, but still incorrect, response for Monday's Paul Robeson clue. I said "The Emperor Jones," a film in which Robeson did star and his character did kill a man. Why I didn't think of the more obvious choice of "Othello" is beyond me. 🤷‍♀️ Representing Thursday's FJ, how about some Vietnamese bahn mi? (I'm back with cilantro again. I'll keep it on the side as a garnish.)

Old Hollywood-style perfection! I can imagine stars like Lana Turner or Rita Hayworth wearing that dress in the 1940's. KH's hair and makeup were spot-on, too. One of the best of the night, IMO.

I don't think so (JMO, of course) because of the extraordinary quality of The Bear's Season 2, Episode 7, "Forks." The way tonight's Emmys were all about "Connor's Wedding," that will be "Forks" at the next Emmy Awards. BTW, I'd think that the Emmys will go back to their regular schedule with nominees named this June and the Emmys being awarded in September.

So, acting Emmys for Succession have been won by Jeremy Strong (for an earlier season,) Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook. I think all of them are deserving, but as the series has now concluded, it seems sad that Brian Cox, the actor who played Logan Roy, one of the truly great characters in television history, never won an Emmy for the role. (Cox did win an Emmy many years ago.)

Well, there's supposed to be an Ally McBeal reunion, so she's probably backstage.

I was afraid the three Succession nominees in the category might have split the vote, but the direction for "Connor's Wedding" was something special Congrats to Mark Mylod.

That was a fantastic episode! It definitely deserved that nomination.

The right choice. "Connor's Wedding" was the best hour of television last year.

Yes! Let's start what I hope will be a bunch of awards for Beef!