(Editor’s note: The performance shown above was taped back in 1977. Go here for a contemporary performance— Béatrice strips down to her slip for this one—but with French subtitles only. My review is based on a 2016 Glyndebourne production available via subscription from “Marquee TV” on Amazon Video. I particularly liked Stéphanie d’Oustrac in the…
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Sandra Oh and “The Chair”: Sorry, I can’t see the plot for the clichés!
I have not been “on campus” for (checks notes) 49 years, for which I thank God on my knees every fucking day—and that ain’t no lie. So I am not the best person to review The Chair, a Netflix mini-series that has gotten props for taking a reasonably honest look at political correctness, sexism, racism,…
Questions that should not be asked, much less answered: What was the deal with “guest stars” on Murder, She Wrote?
Murder, She Wrote, the (very) long-running 80s-90s TV series featuring Angela Lansbury as the intrepid J. B. Fletcher, is today widely known as the “insomniac’s delight”, not because it’s always available on reruns—though it is—but because it puts you to sleep. Who needs Nytol when you’ve got J. B. Fletcher on the case? Yet, even…
Yo, Archer! Keep the Wheeler & Woolsey jokes coming! Funny stuff!
Some years ago, I fired off a brief shoutout to booze-swilling, whore-banging superspy Sterling Archer, the dysfunctional lacrosse-playing preppie superbrat lead of the ligne claire F/X adult cartoon series that bears his name. Well, seven years later, I’m still laughing. Sterling’s eased off the whores, more’s the pity, but he can still chug Harvey’s Bristol…