Inquisitionist

That's how I took it. If he'd been married only once, the convention would be to say "his ex-wife." In fact, as this was the first episode I watched and I didn't know the extent of the son's relationship with this woman, the reference to "his first wife" made me think the two of them had married without his telling her he'd been married before. Now I understand that their relationship is fairly new.

The More The Merrier was fun, but I had seen Walk, Don't Run before and really loved Cary Grant in that (his last film appearance, if I'm not mistaken) as well as Jim Hutton. I also watched My Favorite Wife recently. As I said, something about the Grant/Dunne pairing just doesn't excite me. Count me in on the love for The Palm Beach Story. Ale and Quail forever!

This was my first episode. I liked it enough to set the DVR for next week. The sleep deprivation and tree-chopping were my favorite segments.

Good golly, she certainly wasn't! But I fell for Cooper as Mr. Deeds.

I like four of those. My Favorite Wife may have been colored by having seen the awful remake with Doris Day, Move Over, Darling, but in general, the Grant/Dunne pairing doesn't do a lot for me. The Awful Truth was a bit of a let-down, too. More recently, I started watching The Talk of the Town, with Grant and Jean Arthur and found it dreary.

Slate has gotten in on the action, too.

Boy, I am having some trouble with romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s. (I'd probably have trouble with current ones, too, if I actually watched them.) Most recent case in point was 1942's The Male Animal with Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland. I was curious to see these two paired up, but what a simpering couple they were asked to portray. I stuck with the movie after reading a NY Times review from 1942, which said that Fonda's "reading of the Vanzetti letter, following a solemn appeal for tolerance at the end, is a profoundly moving performance. It gives genuine significance to this film." That storyline was actually powerful and amazingly (and sadly) still very relevant today. But the rom-com part of the movie was just annoying.

JDM is Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom I know only as Joe DiMaggio in a recent mini-series about Marilyn Monroe. He was shown only in the previews for next week. LOL at the Grace/Radar comparison!

OMG, was he ever. Has he shown acting chops in anything else? 'Cause his stiffness as Charlie was glaring.

Wow, I heard a Colin Hanks interview on the radio this morning, talking about how the great writing convinced him to do this, and the great actors were just icing on the cake, so I set my DVR to record what turns out to be the 3rd episode tonight (I thought it was premiering). I hope it's better than the comments for the first two eppies suggest!

Some of your questions will be answered sooner than others. Try not to get too distracted and just enjoy the ride! But Alan Alda was Hawkeye Pierce in the TV version of M*A*S*H.

Peter has had the kind of political rehabilitation that can happen only on TV.

In the past, I have not really noticed JM's wig very much (except to wonder when Alicia has time to get her hair trimmed and her roots touched up so frequently, as her hair ALWAYS looked the same), but last night, the wig was obvious and just plain bad. Who thought going with a center part was a good idea?

They all may have known the law (although the way the scene played, it wasn't clear they did). But more importantly, they didn't make the link that the "housekeeper" was actually a caretaker.

I first saw Dean Winters on some episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street in the mid-90s. Totally different character there.

Got a visiting friend to watch this episode over the weekend. He laughed a lot and was surprised that a show he considered "edgy" was actually on ABC. I think he'll be watching again!

Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. When she and Paul Newman were on-screen together, the pretty was almost too much to bear. Same with Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon in The Leopard. I have a hard time getting past the hairstyles of the 1930s, which IMO were flattering to virtually no one.

If you have amazon Prime, you can stream the episodes online. For $99/year, I think amazon Prime is a great deal! And, no, I don't work for amazon. ;-)

For that matter, how did Dre and Bow not know that Jack was planning to sing this song at a school event? But, no worries, the result was funny and thought-provoking.

Taxes? Charlotte don't pay no stinkin' taxes. :P Just another part of the Manhattan fantasy this show portrayed.

I think it was Norm himself who walked into another bar that Sam worked at temporarily and was greated with "Norm!" Sam looks at him and Norm says something like "I hae a life." But I'm sure others can respond more definitively. George Wendt and Tim Kazurinsky sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the 7th inning stretch of the Cubs game I attended last week. The two of them are starring in a new stage production here called Funnyman. The Chicago Tribune critic says:

Last F*ckable Day should be a pretty good litmus test of whether you like Amy Schumer.

Going back to RZ, here are some photos from March, 2015, in which I think she looks more like "herself" than in the photos that surfaced in October, 2014. Does cosmetic surgery take a while to "settle"? It's bizarre.

So happy for everyone connected with Olive Kitteridge, but especially Richard Jenkins, who is a phenomenal actor and a swell human being. (I happened to meet him last year at a fund-raising event.)

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (even though it has been 45 years... today!)