Prime Suspect (Alexandra Cunningham, Sarah Aubrey, Peter Berg). Series adaptation of the British miniseries. Stars Maria Bello, Kirk Acevedo, Aidan Quinn, Peter Gerety. (drama).

Ooh. Now, I don't think the series needs to be remade, but I like that cast.

Ha. I was amused last night at how long it took from thread creation to the first post alone! I am the midnight thread creator what creates at midnight.

and I said YEAH, BABY, YEAH!!

Apparently it's a woman's world. Pilot season told me so.

My thought as well. Ah well, there are a few that look promising.

Untitled Tim Allen (Jack Burditt). Even though the world around him has declared the traditional male an ‘endangered species,’ Tim Fitzgerald (Allen) is fighting for his manhood in a world that is being increasingly dominated by women (comedy).

WTF? Where do these people live? Maybe it's partly living in the Midwest, but this is not the world I know.

I think they live in TV Land, which is mostly inhabited by helpless schlubby man-children (played by standup comics) and their hot yet shrewish wives.

Apartment 23 (Nahnatchka Khan, David Hemingson). The story is about a naive young woman (Dreama Walker) who comes to New York City and ends up with a trouble-making party-girl roommate (Krysten Ritter). Also stars James Van Der Beek as himself. (comedy).

I must admit curiosity will make me tune in for this, as it was originally sold as Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23.

so, Doc Hollywood 2011?

Northern Exposure gone south.

Oh, that's an interesting tidbit I didn't know. Elizabeth Taylor was exactly one day younger than Johnny Cash so every year she'd send him a telegram on his birthday saying, "I'm still younger than you!"

This is pretty funny.

Elizabeth Taylor may have been "the most beautiful woman in the world" but the great thing is that she didn't always look it. During the filming of Giant, my duty as a Hollywood agent was to hang around Warner Brothers to pick off dissatisfied clients from rival agents and keep an ear open for money-making gossip. In the picture's lunch break for studio workers, who were setting up interiors and closeups, I got my taco and beans from the on-lot catering coach and at a plank table sat opposite a quite ordinarily attractive, freckle-faced woman, her hair in a bandanna, who I assumed was a makeup person or "script girl". She smiled pleasantly and seemed friendly enough. One thing led to another, and I asked for a date.

She placed her hand across the table on mine and, I swear with regret, said, "Dear heart, I'm already taken." Oh, I said, I don't mind, and she gave this huge vulgar bellylaugh, really raucous, and that's when I recognised Elizabeth Taylor, not madeup for her role as Rock Hudson's wife and James Dean's love object in this epic movie about Texas. - Clancy Sigal

HOOKERS AND BLOW

(just because it still amuses me, and it certainly beats staring at the rain.)

This is also pretty funny and gloriously bitchy.

Elizabeth Taylor died on Joan Crawford's birthday: a wholly fitting date. The two leading ladies met on the set of Torch Song in the early 50s, a movie Crawford was filming with Taylor's second husband, Michael Wilding. And they did not hit it off; Crawford could see the future, and it was Taylor. When the younger actor declined to treat Crawford as the movie queen she was, the star branded her "a little bitch" and threatened to teach her some manners. Taylor rebuffed her with typical nonchalance, saying how lucky Wilding was to play a blind man in the movie and therefore be spared the horror of looking at Crawford.