He can sing! She can act! For the first hour – they owned my heart and soul. For the next hour and so, not AS much, but they still had a lot of it! Man, that music was great! (and the trailer still gives me chills!) But I still prefer the 1937 original cause (I was born in the wrong era – and) it’s the version I saw and loved first! And it’s about movies! And oh, that Academy Award scene – I’m still cringing! But yeah, the new one has Andrew Dice Clay!! AND SAM ELLIOTT’S MUSTACHE!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmm, you got me there!!!
Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers
Born is conceiving currently at a theater near jews and white nationalists
a who’s who of horrible human beings – Jodi Arias, Scott Peterson, The Menendez Brothers, Drew Peterson, Ted Bundy, Joran van der Sloot, Pamela Smart, Jean Harris, Billionaire Boys Club, The Preppy Killer, Steven Avery, Charles Manson.  sure, the news is old, but the reenactments are fresh – and I friggin love reenactments!!!  also, the Steve Avery one had me throw out any sympathy that I had formed from watching Making of a Murderer!!!  also, I could listen to Steve Helling talk ALL DAY
a show I truly hate to watch, cause I always feel the need to take 82929 showers after watching it, but I cannot quit on the Gallaghers, especially now that the little kids are coming into their own, and so is Kevin (above) and his shorter hair!
the show inches closer and closer to the Norman Bates we all know and love, while creating the Norman Bates we never knew anything about. Â sad that the upcoming season will be its final oneÂ
making broadcast TV comedies fun again, and again! Â probably my favorite modern TV family
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other solid forms of entertainments:Â
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – it was all a lot of fun AND games, until his efforts to stop Trump were in vain, and I couldn’t watch the show anymore
The Circus – fantastic and immediate election season show was a must watch, although I still haven’t brought myself to watch the final episode. Â gasp
The Affair - so so so soo soo excellent that it made me eat Lunch
Maron -Â nice ending to a show that didn’t seem to have a beginning
Silicon Valley – still my favorite cast on TV
The Last Man Earth – still my 2nd favorite cast on TV
Married At First Sight 4Â -Â finally, some of the people found love
Veep – incredible how the insane politics of this show were outdone by the real insane politics of 2016!
Married by Mom and Dad – what a great bad idea. Â its heart is in the right place, even if the hearts don’t end up in the right place
Tyrant - the show ran out of steam, and I was basically done with it once Ashraf Barhom was done
Fargo - I hope they keep farGOING and GOING!!!
Modern Family – it’s like they’re trying too hard to be funny, and it shouldn’t have to be that way
Woody Allen‘s recent movies have ranged from unforgettable (Midnight In Paris) to forgettable (Whatever Works) to juss plain forgotten (had zero recollection as to what You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger was about).  And his latest – Blue Jasmine?  As a whole, it’s neither of the three, but of course you should see it, cause it’s a Woody Allen movie, but anyone who does see it will never EVER forget the performance that Cate Blanchett hands in as the title blue-stress.  Oh man, the screen burns with every fiery ember of Cate as Jasmine and her smoldering at-the-ready Chernobyl-level meltdowns.  HOT HOT HOT!!!  She’s a woman scorned, broken, battered, but trying to bounce back.  Will the world let her, or will she burn herself down into pile of alcohol-soaked black ashes?  We’re rooting for her at every (mis)step she takes, even though she’s one of the least rootable characters of 2013.  GO JASMINE!!
So how did Jassy Jasmine bottom out to such a low match point?  She turned a blind eye to husband Alec Baldwin‘s madoff-ing with other people’s monies & philandering all over New York, and before it was too late to open her eyes, she lost everything.  Now she’s begging at the door of Sally Hawkins, her adopted sister who Jasmine could give three sh$ts about.  But times are tough and any family is family when yer down and out and now in San Francisco (new Woody locale, yeah!!).  Hawkins has enuff stuff on her own plate, like trying to feed two kids she sired with ex-husband Andrew Dice Clay (not playing for nursery rhyme laughs, and it works!), and a non-stop yapping greasy new beau in the form of Bobby Cannavale (although his yawk-y character doesn’t seem like the kinda guy who’d be living in the Bay Area).  Of course Jasmine complicates matters for all parties involved, as anything she (or Woody) touches turns into instant-neuroticism.  Things eventually do get better between the sisters, and then they each meet a dashing new man – Jasmine + Peter Sarsgaard and Hawkins + Louis CK, but the likelihood of the forecast staying perma-sunny in a ‘blue’ movie is about the same as the chances that dentist Michael Stuhlbarg or dopey mustachio Max Casella have of scoring with Cate Blanchett
Wowsers Cate Blanchett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Are you the best actress alive?  Dare we say possibly even bester than the grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat Meryl Streep?  Time will tell for some, but we may be ready to make and stick by such a bold claim.  Streep of course coulda played a perfect Jasmine, and has even worked with Woody before, but I just don’t see a Streep Jasmine giving me movie memory neurosis for time eternal.  Burn baby burn!
01. Nov, 2018 
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