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I loved Ramos saying the guy should have put some pants on. I remember someone with Canary Island ancestry, and I'm pretty sure it was John Leguizamo. Maybe everybody whose family has been in PR for a long time has Canary Island ancestry? Maybe they were being pushed more than other groups by the Spaniards to emigrate.

I thought of this, too, and I also thought of ricochets. In that shallow space, she couldn't be sure that a ricochet wouldn't hit her, plus, if she shot at an angle, the bullet might not actually shatter the glass.

Yes, the back cover photo on the dust jacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms was quite the sensation when it was first published. I guess my memory was faulty, and the Christopher Cerf identification was just speculation.

Isn't Christopher Cerf the guy Carly Simon wrote You're So Vain about? I'm pretty sure she admitted that a number of years ago.

Preach it, sister. Brother?

I first noticed him [Tom Hollander] as the mousy little husband in Gosford Park who finally at the end gets up the courage to .... well, watch the movie. He also has a wonderful scene with Sophie Thompson (my favorite Thompson sister). I just love that movie.

"Gay" as a term for homosexuals is at least a century old, but it was definitely not in common use until at least the 1970s.

Yeah, same for me. And they focus on her about half the show. Give some of the other kids a chance to shine. They're pretty impressive, too. It's almost like she's feeding on it and getting more and more dramaaaatic. Kaelie (sp?) has grown on me, and I'm liking her a lot more lately. I'm sad after two kids I liked (Camryn and Anaiah) were eliminated in the last two weeks.

I know. I have a gift-with-purchase umbrella from the 70s from her line. It has a swan's head handle. I never made the connection to "the" swans. Hmmmm. I almost lost it at a hockey game when I left it behind at my seat. But fortuitously a guy walked by us as we were going to our car, and he was carrying it (he didn't steal it -- he just picked it up because it was raining). He gave it back readily. Probably didn't want to admit (outside a hockey game) that he had a purple umbrella with a swan's head handle.

Capote/Vidal? Or was Capote feuding with himself? 😉

Excellent analysis. And this paragraph especially stood out for me: "Anyway, this explanation would have been too sophisticated for Ryan Murphy. Far easier to see it as a socialite Mean Girls—plus socialite Mean Girls attracts more viewers, too!"

Thanks! My memory is not always the best these days. 🙃

I seem to remember in the previous episode Capote commenting on Tenneseee Williams...something to the effect of he (Capote) being better than Williams. Sounded like sour grapes. Williams was more prolific and successful than Capote even if they both had messy ends.

If I'm not misunderstanding, the more people they get who contribute their DNA the more accurate in finer detail the percentages can be. I did a DNA test with a Canadian company, and because a very high number of their participants were from the UK (where 95% of my dad's ancestry is from ) I had better breakdowns than just simply Scottish or English. I found out I'm 5% Cornish -- I love Cornwall!

Just because I'm not particularly fond of "high society," I certainly didn't mean to imply that these women deserved their betrayal. There's no excuse for that no matter what your level in the world is.

Yeah, I'm really only in it for Tom Hollander. He's doing a fabulous job. Oh, I meant to mention that! Phyllis Diller was dressed in her performance costume. That hair, and the dress with the maribou collar, were something she never wore when she was in her private life. It was jarring. I think it was a cheap way to indicate that the Carsons only had low level celebrity guests instead of the so-called creme de la creme of society in Palm Beach at the Paley's. It was cheesy.

Yeah, I know Ryan Murphy doesn't do subtlety, but couldn't he learn? I just get tired watching his shows and usually just give up on them.

Velvet crumb cake! Something even a kid couldn't screw up.

Well, the original movie accents were exaggerated, too, and that's where the Moorjani said she got her accent. I'm willing to bet Juno Temple did, too.

Lucky.

I understand that, but they were so close Witt could almost touch him with the gun barrel. Oh, well, not a big point.

I kept yelling at him to shoot Roy in the shoulder. That would have forced Roy to drop then knife, and it wouldn't have made him a murderer.

Me, either. It makes her look like a toddler. She's annoyed me since the beginning, so I would have been happy with her going. It was really annoying me that Duff was going on and on and on and on about there being nothing in the middle of the handpie as he was waving it around with clear evidence of (admittedly very little) jam inside.

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Elsie?