And his very precise facial hair was distracting, it was so sharp. I'll be watching it.

YES! It freaked me out how it went up to his no hair and stopped so abruptly.

You know who else is utterly compelling to watch? Shakira.

Oh yeah. She moves.

Matt, I'm sure there are times where the networks go "OMG, we made a terrible mistake! Abort! Abort!" but a lot of the time they're expecting the initial numbers to be the verdict when that's not necessarily so. I was reading some tweets from an ICM agent a while ago pointing out films that "underperformed" the opening week but found their audience afterwards and made very strong numbers. But H'wood right now seems to be all about the opening weekend so they'll screw things for themselves by labeling something a "failure" to the public when it's not necessarily so.

Of course, I'm just spinning gears here. H'wood suits have been stupid for a long time now.

Ha HA! I put my dress on a skirt hanger, and it fits in the bag. OK, bed.

Shakira is one of about 3 women who I think are truly sexually attractive to me.

Love me some Shakira. That is all.

eta not quite all. Her video for Wherever Whenever is what sparked my interest in bellydance.

Oh, sara, I don't think I've said, I'm so sorry for your loss. That it's also a loss of family memory, a whole grief on its own in addition to yours for losing Carol herself.

Carol helped me to understand my grandmother at a time when we were very much at odds. Without her, I would still have a very negative view of Grandma Karin. Instead, I appreciate and understand her, though I hated and scraped against her bias against girls. Know where she got that, too bad, because frankly, her own path was proto-feminist. She just resented her own.

I remember really hating Reviving Ophelia when I read it as a teen - the author kept comparing her own childhood to her patients' and never seemed to acknowledge that there might be more to it than a generation gap. (You know, like the fact that as a psychiatrist, she's seeing a very skewed sample group of modern adolescent girls. Or that she grew up in a small town but treats kids in a big city. Or any other of a million factors other that "the fifties were so much nicer.")

That and the endless tortured weather metaphors. Those got old fast.

What's the name of the book, Hec?

These two supremely trashy volumes Hollywood Babylon - It's Back and Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again.

Not the original Kenneth Anger books but more recent scuttlebut.

They're pretty dicey and make some outrageous claims. But at the same time, they do have some useful sources and when you realize that Hepburn/Tracy was a "New York Marriage" the coin drops.

It's interesting knowing which actors hustled before they got their break (Lucille Ball, Richard Gere). I didn't realize Cesar Romero was gay, even though his portrayal of The Joker should've tipped me.

It's funny to know that Barbara Stanwyck (who mostly preferred women, but had relationships with younger men as she got older, famously William Holden and Robert Wagner) told Bogie "I run the fuck!" when she hooked up with him for a second time. (Their first time was before they were stars and she was just a chorus girl, Ruby Stevens, from Brooklyn.)

You kind of see these lines of loyalty and betrayal that linger on through Hollywood. I vividly remember Barbara Stanwyck, then in her seventies, giving out some award (honorary Oscar?) to William Holden and there just being a tremendous amount of feeling and affection between them. (She was in her fifties and he was 22 when she fought to get him his first role, and taught him how to act and they were lovers for about five years.)

Kate Hepburn didn't date other Hollywood actresses so much; she had long lasting affairs with high society heiress types.

Here are the answers on the cocks, btw.

Montana Mule - Gary Cooper. Famously hung, and also a fabulous lover. Some Euro royalty older woman took him under her wing and taught him a thing or two.

Black Snack - George Raft, who had a very dark dick.

Jawbreaker - Franchot Tone, who was bisexual. As many of the stars of the 30s and 40s seemed to be.

John Wayne had a disappointingly teeny weeny. He claimed Marlene Dietrich was his best lay. She described him in bed as "weak lemonade."

Mickey Mantle said his best sex ever was with Doris Day.

David Niven (hung like a beer can apparently) was visiting in Monaco and the Prince asked who his best Hollywood sex was with. Niven blurted out "Grace!" without thinking and was no longer welcome.