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I'll do you one better: I like Scream 4. It's my least-favorite of the four (I like each one less than the one that came before it), but I do like it. I have them all on DVD, and sometimes I just watch the original, but usually I watch the first two one night and three and four the next.

How many clues are left on the board is a recurring annoyance in these Celebrity episodes, but I am getting a kick out of knowing all the answers since they dumb down the clues so much. With that said, I'm looking forward to the one tonight with Jane Curtin, Cheech Marin, and Michael McKean, because they had more typical clues and did well with them.

I adore that film. Even though I had watched it on DVD quite recently, when I came across the final 20 minutes on TV last night, I had to stop and watch. Yes, she is the weak link in a cast that is thankfully otherwise so perfectly suited to their roles I am not distracted by her.

That support group one remains my favorite because of this exchange: "Next thing you know, I'm telling strangers defense wins championships." "Well, it does." "Right?" Also because everyone's wardrobe and body language is just perfect.

"Wide Open Spaces" and, especially, "She's Acting Single" should be ranked higher. I wouldn't have ranked it on a country list, but I love the song itself. I cannot stand Kid Rock otherwise, but I love pretty much everything Sheryl Crow sings, including this collaboration. I don't know this song, but their hatred for it - and him - cracked me right up.

That might be it. I'm pretty sure I saw this when it originally aired, but Barkley's performance didn't stick in my memory; when I think infamous Celebrity J! appearance, I think Wolf Blitzer.

Mods have allowed for posting about these "vault" episodes in the appropriate threads (e.g. All Episodes, Celebrity) or in the S36 (in which they are being re-aired) thread; I find the latter ridiculous, so I'm usually the one resurrecting an old thread - my own odd act of rebellion for logic and consistency - even though most discussion is happening in the S36 thread. The Jeff Probst, Martha Stewart, Charles Barkley episode was a bit of an odd pick to me, to immediately follow another game from the same celebrity tournament featured in last night's re-run; I'm not immediately clear what its significance in J! history is. Other than Charles Barkley not having a clue how to operate the buzzer. It amused me that Martha Stewart recognized the clue within the "parasite" clue as being a No Doubt song, but still couldn't come up with it. I cannot believe none of them recognized Stephen Hawking between the text and the photo! I'm also quite surprised only Martha knew FJ. She seemed a bit unfamiliar with some fundamentals of the game, so she was either playing that off, or just signed up based on general knowledge rather than a specific connection to the show.

One time when I was running really late for a flight, I did ask everyone, and the TSA agent still tried to claim I couldn't do that. Everyone immediately behind me who could overhear it joined me in telling him how ridiculous that was, and how he, not me, was the one holding things up now, and another agent came along, ascertained the scenario, and said, "So what's the problem? Let her go on." She's the only reason I didn't miss my flight, because I got to the gate at pretty much the last second. (It's the closest I ever came to missing a flight without actually missing it, and I've only missed one - I'm usually ridiculously early because I leave so much "just in case" time, but sometimes shit happens.) Yep, 15 years later, that TSA dude in the Orlando airport is still a peeve.

And her husband just died a month ago; how rough for their family. But they both died at home after long lives (he was 94), so hopefully that's comforting.

In the episode with Jodie Foster, Nathan Lane, and Harry Connick, Jr., I could not believe some of the TS, especially Livingstone, Philadelphia, Walden, and Ft. Worth (they had to have forgotten the category on that one!). It was a good game, and they didn't have a ton of misses, but most of the ones they did all miss surprised me.

Per the J! archive, it was: She was in her teens when she made her first film with Montgomery Clift, "A Place in the Sun"

I watched the episode with Carol Burnett, Donna Mills, and Regis Philbin last night, but missed the first couple of minutes so I didn't see the dedication to Philbin or hear if that was, as I think, the very first celebrity edition of the show. I rolled my eyes so hard when Regis missed the Vogue DD and Alex said Carol and Donna would have got it right. Yes, Alex, because all women read fashion magazines. They left so many clues on the board!

I love the Nina Persson/Nathan Larson cover of this for Boys Don't Cry (on its own and for reminding me of the film) so much that whenever I hear the original I'm disappointed. My absolute favorite recording of the song.

I watched this last night on Prime, and I'd love to see this cast in a far better movie. But it was entertaining enough fluff, given the cast (it really has nothing else going for it other than a few funny lines). That all four of them were paired up with a man by the end was highly problematic, though. They tried to paint Jane Fonda and Don Johnson's characters' relationship as a positive one because he didn't want to change her, but it still came across that she'd been wrong all along and should have accepted his proposal all those years ago. Same with Candice Bergen's character - it couldn't be that she truly didn't want to mess with any of it anymore, it had to be that she was avoiding dating because she was hung up on her divorce. (I laughed when the goofy doctor turned up as her date [just as she was dealing with her ex and his 30+ years his junior fiancée], since the actor played the annoying Stuart Best in several episodes Murphy Brown.) But the interaction among the women was fun, and at least we got Diane Keaton's character's various oh, please reactions to the books. I spent the whole film thinking one of her character's daughters looked familiar, but had no idea it was Alicia Silverstone until the end credits.

He isn't. But if you didn't like the first season and first half of season two, you're not going to like the show, so it's good you bailed. (I like it, which is hardly ever something I say about sci-fi [you'd have to pay me to watch the original].) Maybe this is unpopular, but Jamie Bamber's appeal is somewhat lost on me. I think he's attractive, but not in any sort of stand-out way. The only thing I've ever seen him in other than BSG was an episode of Major Crimes, and there he played a sleazeball, but I've seen some BSG panels from conventions and he seems personable and funny. I'm just not drawn to him.

It's such a poignant commentary on how skewed Rusty's understanding of what was and was not acceptable remains: She was likely never a "terrific" mom, and we know things started going off the rails when he was six, yet he doesn't think she did anything wrong for another five years.

I must have been feeling generous that day. Or maybe I now remember her as worse than she was. Or maybe it is just the passage of time; she was rather chirpy, and my tolerance for that has only decreased the older I get.

I like giving Amy something to do that doesn’t involve Mark Hickman (which is among the many things that doesn't have enough), so I love her interaction with the veteran who was raped in “Letting it Go”; their yeah, I know what it feels like to be surrounded by a bunch of horny, lonely men in a foreign country 24 hours/day understanding sets a powerful stage. I love when Amy tells the “Why is she lying?” guys that Laura didn’t lie about being raped while serving this country, and it got swept under the rug (“like a lot of other ugly truths”); the only reason she confessed is because someone was finally listening to her (because her rapist got killed; validating Laura’s frustration no one cared until then). It’s a gut-wrenching scene when Laura tells Amy the flip side of her relief and gratitude Jackie killed the rapist: in fantasizing daily about doing that same thing, she’d wondered if it might be the elusive action that would be the one thing to help her, and now she’ll never know. Amy physically comforting her as Laura begs “help me stop crying and I’ll tell the truth” is brutal. The rapist’s MO is well presented, in the details, but fundamentally that he’s a charming guy in the periphery, a gentleman on the first date once he asks his victims out, then a rapist on the second date if she doesn’t go along with his immediately-escalated physical advance. (Most TV rapists are evil from date one.) Joining this case in its ugliness is the latest in Sharon Beck’s history of emotionally manipulating Rusty, especially when the usual attempt fails and she turns vicious, equating him being gay – and having “sold himself on the street to guys” (a behavior he learned as a survival method in the first place from her, and thus employed when she abandoned him with no other options) - as something for which she has magnanimously “forgiven” him with the myriad offenses for which he’s taking her to task. He’d been so cautious when she came back, but was starting to get comfortable with the possibility of her being different this time around, and then here we go again. The scene afterward, with Sharon and Rusty at home when Sharon Beck calls asking him for a ride, is equal parts painful and lovely – it’s horrible what his mom keeps doing to him, but he’s getting better at dealing with it because he has this wonderful woman sitting there telling him exactly what he needs to hear, because she’s been down this same road. (And, oh my, the way Sharon’s realization of what’s being said on the other side of that phone call is written so clearly on Mary McDonnell’s face.) I have two fundamental grumbles about this episode: - I call bullshit on all the “technicality”/“what, did she end a sentence with a preposition?” talk – an expert witness with fraudulent credentials having his testimony excluded and the statement of a drunk person who had not been Mirandized not being a valid confession are not pesky little twists of bad luck, they’re the intended just results of our legal system. - In making a valid point about Jackie being the ideal testifying victim from a prosecutor’s point of view, the DDA refers to how she “did absolutely everything right” and emphasizes her fighting back as an example of that. There is no “right” way to respond to being raped! And fighting back may risk further violence, the victim may be too stunned and frightened, it may not be physically possible, etc. so to further shame rape survivors who did not physically fight in the way Jackie did is inappropriate. It’s a dark episode, but it contains one of my favorite lines of the series (since I can’t stand Buzz), when Provenza asks, “Can’t you just fire him? Any idiot can hit record.” I also laugh at Provenza complaining the music has made his brain turn to soup and spill out his ears; he’s one of the few cranky old men who entertain me.

What?! Sweetcakes put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. It blew my mind she hadn't already been adopted (even with how many dogs they have; she's the kind of dog that appeals to a wide variety of people [in shelters here, labs are snatched up very quickly]), but I figured it all worked out for her to wind up in the perfect home - a person who adores her, a backyard her country self will feel at home in, and ample social outings in the city to get her all the added attention she loves. We don't really know what happened, so all I'm going to say is from the little we do know - it was early in her transition to new people, it was a nip (a warning rather than an attack), and the owner didn't see what led up to it - I would not have returned the dog as my first step. Mossy was a real sweetie, too, so I'm glad she got a home. Oh my, Alicia wagging the tip of her tail that she had tucked under her was such a sight! I love how much the vet loved walking in to find two grown men down on the exam room floor loving on her when she came in for her re-check. How wonderful to see her recovery, that even that emaciated all that was wrong with her was worms and malnutrition, which could easily be fixed in time. Crowley has a bomb-proof personality from his myriad experiences living with an unsheltered person, and had clearly known love. It's a shame the man who loved him felt he was out of options, but it's good he brought him to people he knew would help. I'm glad Crowley is already in a home.

Reminder that new episodes start tonight (in the regular timeslot; there's a clip show with Tia commentary airing right before it).

My favorite but what about the children?! HH-imagined death trap remains windows without screens (courtesy of the wife/mom of the family moving from Michigan [I think] to Paris).

I can cut some slack on that bit of casting; Plummer (90 at the time)'s character is 85, so even if Great Nana is "only" 105, I don't think there's an actor that age to play the role unless Olivia de Havilland came out of retirement (and it's not exactly a de Havilland-style role). I may very well be missing someone, but when I try to think of the oldest female actors still working, they're all about 90-95. And none of them would look any more believable as his mom than Callan did.

Well, I didn't know until you posted, so you're several years ahead of me (I never watched the show, but I heard his name).

There is nothing I'll want to watch more than a few times that I don't have on DVD/Blu-Ray; I want to be able to watch it any place (not just within my home, but taking it to a friend's house for movie night), any time, in perpetuity, not at the whim of a streaming service's comings and goings or a hard drive's technical issues (the latter being one of the reasons why I don't have a DVR; I record to a disc via DVD-R [or sometimes to a tape via VCR if it's something I know I'll only want to watch once and can't easily locate a disc with room], because far too many people I know have had their DVR crap out without any ability to restore what was on it). Plus, DVD/Blu-Ray generally comes with special features.

I'm a white woman with thick curly hair (which I will not straighten), and I have to put in work to find those who know how to cut it, let alone style it. And I'm in Los Angeles, not Podunk. It is appalling how many folks walking around with cosmetology licenses aren't properly trained on textured hair of any kind. I will not go to anyone who doesn't have curly hair herself; I learned this by the time I was a teen (my curly hair comes from my dad, and my mom is the one who took me to hair appointments; she didn't know what she didn't know) and in the 30+ years since I have still not become willing to just hope anyone with scissors is among those who've actually managed to learn the craft in full, not just a segment of it. So I can just imagine how black female actors, especially, about to be evaluated by millions on their looks, and specifically their hair, once they step before the camera - not to mention worried about the potential damage to their hair - feel upon walking into the trailer and seeing a sea of white. One shouldn't need to have a particular hair and skin in order to know its needs - that's the damn job, as you said - but that's the current scenario all too often, so the lack of black hair stylists and make-up artists on sets is problematic on a practical level beyond general diversity concerns.