Inquisitionist

Variety has published a helpful guide to special MTM broadcasts over the next few days: Mary Tyler Moore to Be Honored With TV Specials, Tributes & Marathons

Thanks for the alert. Don't know what happened on the first go-round, but I have fixed it. I think this was my favorite piece of MTM coverage yesterday.

The NY Times has a number of articles about MTM's influence. I particularly liked this look at Mary Richards and sex. I remember every one of those moments so clearly!

The NY Times obituary for MTM is up. OMG, how could I forget MTM's role in that movie? She was wonderful, along with George Segal as her husband.

Considering that she was diagnosed with diabetes in her early 30s, it's quite a feat that she survived to 80. It sounds like her last couple of years were really tough.

Breaking news: Mary Tyler Moore has died at age 80.

It's being reported today that MTM is in a hospital in critical condition. She is 80 years old and was diagnosed with diabetes at age 33. ETA: She has passed away. RIP, Mary. You turned our world on for a long time.

Yes, this was my point. I'm a Prime subscriber. I DVR and watch the episodes as they air, and generally delete them when I know they're close to being made available through Prime. If something costs you $X per episode to download then it's not included with Prime -- which gives one access to a video library for a monthly/yearly fee -- it's simply part of Amazon Video.

Meryl was her usual excellent self in FFJ, and I haven't seen many of the other nominated or in-the-running performances yet, but her nomination does seem kind of ho-hum. I would have liked to see Hugh Grant snag a Best Supporting nod for FFJ.

My experience with Justified and The Americans has been that FX releases a season to Amazon Prime just before the next season begins airing.

Provolone in appearance, but Gorgonzola for his biting wit. Hey, I like them both!

IMO, Baldwin is an excellent host, whether he's doing his Trump thing or not. I have his first hosting gig from 1990 on my DVR. He clicked from the start. Here's his opening monologue from his second appearance a year later. So incredibly good-looking and game for anything!

Which is usually the date the previous season becomes available for streaming on amazon Prime. Yippee, as I finally deleted all of S4 from my DVR just a few weeks ago!

Wow, he's been Prince Charles for so long that it never occurred to me that he'd be anything other than King Charles. Assuming he outlives his mother. ;-) Maybe enough time has passed that the name King Charles has been rehabilitated, kind of like with Pope Paul VI choosing that name after it had been avoided for 300+ years.

Yes, her son Prince Henry was still alive, as was her daughter, Princess Mary.

Wow.

I'm not sure why one would have expected Margaret to "do research." Her sister, the Crown, told her that all Margaret needed to do was wait until her 25th birthday, then she could marry Townsend without any problems. Margaret dutifully did this, a very difficult choice for a 23-year-old. Then she had the rug pulled out from under her again. I really felt for Margaret. She was a victim of her times. Today her nephew, the heir to the throne, is married to a divorced woman, and it's no big deal. Plus divorce is as common among the royals as it is in the general public.

So true! Fishburne is a treasure.

I did not know this! I will pay attention on rewatch. Thanks. :-) He has lived it, too. I'm so sorry. I wish I could give your post a teary-face instead of a <3, but thank you so much for sharing this.

That actor Bobby left to take another role. The character of Bobby didn't seem to age at all.

As someone also afflicted by RBF, I loved that, too!

BTW, I found this interview on youtube as well, in two pieces of about 15 minutes each, so if you missed the TCM airing but are interested, you can watch part 1 here, then go on to part 2.

Ha, I thought of her, too!

Did anyone catch Elvis Mitchell's interview with Bill Murray from 2008 that TCM recently reran? Only 30 minutes long, but it gave me such great appreciation for Murray's process and his knowledge of acting and moviemaking, generally. He started out talking about a favorite obscure film, 1936's The Moon's Our Home starring Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda (who were already divorced from each other at the time). He particularly enjoyed Sullavan's physical comedy work in this movie and lamented that she is largely forgotten today. I'd never heard of TMOH and don't recall seeing it in TCM's rotation (I do a search for Henry Fonda movies on the upcoming Comcast listings from time to time). Has anyone else seen it?

I just read Her Again by Michael Schulman. While Meryl was establishing her roots in the NY theater community in her mid-early 20s, she reportedly read 3 newspapers a day. This is also a woman who, at 28 or 29, put her professional aspirations on hold to nurse her lover, John Cazale, as he died of lung cancer. I think we know a lot about what makes her thoughts regarding empathy (the core of her GG comments) worth listening to.