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Everyone who knows me in real life is aware that I worship Ina Garten as a goddess. And yet somehow, no one thought to inform me that she launched a new TV series called “Be My Guest With Ina Garten.” A couple of years ago! I had to stumble across it while scrolling through options on HBO Max when I woke up at stupid o’clock today and couldn’t get back to sleep!

The premise is Ina Garten invites people she admires (some folks she knows, some she’s never met) to her house in the Hamptons to cook, mix cocktails and shoot the shit about life. In the first episode, the lucky guest was actor Julianna Margulies. They made margaritas and a haddock recipe Margulies often cooks at home, with Ina Garten serving as sous-chef. Margulies was fan-girling out as hard as I would have!

Ina Garten and Julianna Margulies

That’s the only episode I’ve seen so far since I just discovered this treasure trove today in the wee hours, but there’s three seasons, and other guests include Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Nora Jones, Faith Hill and Misty Copeland.

Anyway, now you know.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Tony Jay

    Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Nora Jones, Faith Hill and Misty Copeland

    Now that’s a dinner party.

  2. 2.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Noooo, no cooking posts, I’m already full from the heaping helping of shadenfreude this morning!

  3. 3.

    cain

    @Tony Jay: what would be your ideal dinner party of guests?

    ETA:

    My dinner party would be, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Steven Wilson and Eric Johnson

  5. 5.

    Old School

    Looks like very short seasons: three seasons of four episodes each.

    I wasn’t aware of the show either.  Enjoy!

  6. 6.

    eclare

    Wow!  Looks great!  Thanks.

    I talked to my what I thought was my non nut job aunt this morning.  “So, who are the Democrats nominating?”  She only watches Bret, so not even the heavy crazies.

    Sigh.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    @cain:

    Stephen Fry, Peter Ustinov, Dave Grohl, Kathy Burke, Peter Cushing, Peter Falk, David Attenborough, you know, the usual crowd.

    Ha! Grohl’s in demand.

    ETA – Need more funny people.

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    if it was a dinner party/cookout…..

    Michael Palin, Drew Carey, Sandra Bullock, Gillian Anderson, John Scalzi and Lois McMaster Bujold and if allowed to expand the guest list, Joy Reid.

  14. 14.

    Jeffro

     

    @eclare:

    “So, who are the Democrats nominating?”  She only watches Bret, so not even the heavy crazies.  Sigh.

    Tell her we’re nominating Michelle and Jill.  =)

  15. 15.

    Jeffro

    I just want to host small dinner parties with cool people twice a week for the next thirty years, is that so much to ask?

    #LifeGoals, bigly!

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    Delighted that “programming note” has nothing to do with tonight’s parade of awful.  Which I shall not subject myself too.

    And:  thinking of Keef: makes me think of Amir and his guitar collection and his cat with the unusual name, and hope that he shows up again soonest.  He has scared us with his absence before …

  20. 20.

    JoyceH

    I just saw Margulies the other day in a rewatch of the mini-series The Lost Room. Anyone else seen that? I love it, so atmospheric and weird. Not sure why it’s not a Cult Classic.

  22. 22.

    geg6

    Saw an episode of it with Rob Marshall (Chicago, Little Mermaid, etc.).  I saw he was going to be a guest and, since he’s a Pittsburgh guy, I made it a point to watch.  I, too, adore Ina and would kill to cook and have a meal and drink cocktails with her.  I don’t even like cocktails (just a wine girl), but I’d suck it up a drink some if it was with Ina.

  23. 23.

    Alison Rose

    I’ll go with an all-literary dinner party where death is no obstacle: Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Seanan McGuire, Amy Tan, Charles Dickens, Carolina de Robertis…I’ll have to stop otherwise I’d need to rent a banquet hall.

  27. 27.

    cope

    She is revered in our household as well. My wife is working her way through one of Ina’s cookbooks that came out before she was big on the TV.  Good stuff so far.

    We have seen most of the episodes of “Be My Guest…” and they are very soothing and enjoyable, a pleasant balm in our time of national suffering.

  31. 31.

    Tony Jay

    @Elizabelle:

    Hopefully he’s just too busy waiting by his phone on the off-chance Jurgen Klopp calls with the offer of a short-term contract to provide Liverpool FC with defensive-midfield cover.

    And on the off-chance he gets that call, I hope he accepts before Chelsea come running with a grossly inflated counter-offer.

  33. 33.

    Raven

    Massive winds on the Outer Banks. I tried  fishing for a couple of hours but nothing will hold the bottom so it’s just cast and watch line race south. It’s pretty here even though it’s Trump country. The better news is the weather looks good for the hopefully epic offshore trip Friday.

  34. 34.

    opiejeanne

    OMG! Thankyuouthankyouthankyou!

    I didn’t think I could love you more, Betty Cracker but I was wrong.

  37. 37.

    opiejeanne

    @BeautifulPlumage: Now I have to go see what I missed while I was sewing this morning.

    P.S. Your 3-L lama joke was the worst pun I’ve ever seen. I had to say it out loud to get it, but I think it wins 3 groans.

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    We were in Charleston a few years ago and saw some schlock artwork featuring Fat Bastard and several of his Republican predecessors hanging out in a pool hall. Can you just imagine if Ike or Teddy Roosevelt were actually in the same room with him? His ass would have been whipped.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    Teevee notes:

    Wrapped “The Days” (Netflix) a Japanese miniseries on Fukushima Daiichi, from quake through finally taming the reactors and storage ponds using water. Lots and lots of water (itself in the news, right now).

    While it’s not the grasp-your-sofa-and-hang-on that is “Chernobyl” (what could be?), it’s riveting on its own terms and importantly, has no time-jumps, so you really feel as though you’re experiencing the suddenness of the disaster and then, the excruciatingly slow unfolding of the string of utter failures that follow.

    I’m partway through “Deadloch” (Prime) and the only reason I have not been able to finish binging is I require lengthy breaks to recover en route, sometimes in the middle of an episode. The things that especially come out of Madeleine Sami cannot be repeated by me, anywhere, ever.

    Aussie-Kiwi humour at it’s funniest and filthiest. Do not miss. ETA for Yanks, at least, turn on the captions. Trust me.

  46. 46.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @eclare: As should Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbauch and Margot Robbie.  Not to mention people who did costumes, set design and casting.  Also Billie Eilish.

  48. 48.

    Scout211

    Fani Willis has words for Meadows.

    CNN
    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a federal court that it should not interfere in any efforts to arrest Mark Meadows if the former White House chief of staff fails to surrender by Friday’s deadline to turn himself in.

    In a court filing Wednesday, Willis called Meadows’ request for the court’s intervention “improper” and “baseless.”

    “It should be noted the defendant’s former boss, the former president of the United States, voluntarily agreed to surrender himself to state authorities, while other defendants have already surrendered,” Willis’ office said.

     

    ETA:  And Clark:

    Willis took several swipes at the legal claims Clark is pushing, telling the federal court that “the theory the defendant advances could charitably be characterized as unusual.”

    Clark’s bid to move her case to federal court is more broadly framed than Meadows,’ and Clark argues that the federal court should follow the rules of federal removal in civil proceedings. Such rulings would require state court proceedings for entire case – for all the defendants – to automatically be paused and moved to federal court, Clark argued in court filings earlier this week.

    “Because any urgency in the defendant’s situation is entirely attributable to his own delay, he should not be rewarded with a stay that deprives the state of the opportunity to first oppose removal of his criminal case,” Willis wrote.

  55. 55.

    RaflW

    OMG, I have been loving Stanley Tucci’s food tour of Italy (CNN produced, but all the episodes I’ve seen have been on airplane seat back TV), so I think he and Ina Garten in a kitchen together would be fabulous.

    I’ll have to bug a friend who has HBO Go when I hang out with him during ski season (please tell me Garten’s show is on Go).

  56. 56.

    Dangerman

    @eclare: If you are choosing George, I think ya gotta have Brad and Matt Damon there. Some awesome pranks from that group.

    The Jimmy Kimmel where Matt gets carried out by Ben is one of the funniest bits ever.

  61. 61.

    UncleEbeneezer

    For any K-drama fans out there, Netflix’s new series, The Mask Girl is really good.  It’s a dark comedy, drama, thriller, verging-on-horror series about a woman becomes an internet sensation as a cam girl, by donning a blonde wig and a mask because she has lived her life always being ridiculed for being “ugly” (in the Hollywood/movies sense of the word).  It’s a quirky, weird, suspenseful and violent story so I won’t share too many spoilers.  But definitely worth a look if you like really twisted K-dramas.

    Second season of HBO’s Winning Time is also pretty great so far.  This season really gets into the Bird/Magic rivalry and the tension/conflict that Magic’s larger-than-life stardom brought to the Lakers locker room.

  62. 62.

    Raven

    @eclare: Thanks , the offshore trip is Friday, leave the dock at 5am sharp. The wind finder app predicts 3.1 ft swells with 9 second intervals. We should be ok.

  68. 68.

    hilts

    My dinner party

    Groucho Marx, Noël Coward, Allen Ginsberg, Oscar Levant, Elaine May, Elaine Stritch, Fran Lebowitz, and Susan Sontag.

  70. 70.

    Dangerman

    My three dinner guests (Family and Religion excluded):

    John Wooden

    Vin Scully

    Richard Feynman

    Yeah, took a turn with that last one, huh?

    ETA: I think all 3 were educators to their core and master storytellers. I don’t know who talks the most. Probably Feyman.

    ETA2: Coach would insist on Nell and definitely need some more feminine presence. Let me ponder.

  72. 72.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Alison Rose: Nope, just too eager to break the news. Was doing other stuff till 5 minutes ago, saw this pop up on YouTube and thought it might actually be news.

    I glanced at the most recent open thread (this one), skimmed through it and didn’t see it mentioned, so dropped it in here.

    Now I feel like an idiot but that’s not a new experience for me.

    You guys are too well-informed for me to keep up with.

  74. 74.

    JPL

    I had no idea about the show, so thank you Betty.   Something to watch when I wake up at one.

  75. 75.

    zhena gogolia

    @eclare: WaterGirl says it was Aug. 1. He did disappear for a while once before when he had health issues, so we might not hear anything for a while. I hope he’s okay.

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    Less pleasant programming note: Trump will be at tonight’s GOP debate in digital form:

    “If he’s not there, he’ll still be there,” Bret Baier, the debate’s co-moderator, told Politico last week. “There may be sound bites, there may be elements where ‘this is what the leader of the primary says about this issue.’ He’ll be there, even if he’s not there.”

    Indeed, multiple people familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that the network has committed to a plan to “beam Trump in” by playing clips of him throughout the debate and having the candidates respond. The move partly satisfies the network’s need for an active, lively debate with the frontrunner somehow involved, as well as its post-2020 core operating principle to “respect the audience”—in particular, the MAGA base that craves all things Trump. But it would also satisfy Fox’s desire to effectively counter-program the Carlson interview.

    LOL! Imagine getting the assignment to pick those clips! Too bad they can’t create a hologram.

  82. 82.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @trollhattan: We love disaster movies/shows, so we enjoyed The Days okay, but yeah it is nowhere near the level of Chernobyl, which was true must-watch status, imo.  It was hard not to constantly compare the two in our heads while watching, leaving The Days feeling kinda dull by comparison.

  83. 83.

    bbleh

    @Scout211: @twbrandt: ooo, the abusive metaphor of consequences.

    (And srsly, I’d prefer not to be rushed when I book air travel? Really?)

    Re Meadows, won’t this be pretty much a copy of the Clark ruling, minus the “move the entire matter” bit?

    I suppose now they’ll appeal the denial?  And ask for a stay while the appeal is pending? (Ok joking.  Mostly.)

  84. 84.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @opiejeanne:

     

    P.S. Your 3-L lama joke was the worst pun I’ve ever seen. I had to say it out loud to get it, but I think it wins 3 groans.

    Wait, what?!? I don’t recall making a pun?

  86. 86.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    A dinner for members of the press hosted by the Trump campaign on Tuesday evening geared toward ribbing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is being criticized by figures across the political spectrum.

    Politico led its Playbook newsletter on Wednesday morning — the day of the first Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 cycle — with details about the dinner:

    SPOTTED IN MILWAUKEE — Team Trump wining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called “Rare” — and passing out pudding snack packs (a swipe at RON DeSANTIS’ “pudding fingers” story) as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included: “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” “red ears,” “Dee-Santis,” “Duh-Santis,” “flip flops on Social Security… again,” “woke” and “pudding mention.” See pictures here and here

    Who was there: Reporters Dana Bash, Shane Goldmacher, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Fin Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilly, Mario Parker and David Chalian along with Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller and Steven Cheung. And across the restaurant, feet away: members of Team DeSantis.

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/politics/how-is-this-appropriate-trump-teams-lavish-anti-desantis-dinner-with-media-complete-with-pudding-cups-called-out-by-critics/

  87. 87.

    Jackie

    @Alison Rose: And, the info we really REALLY want to know:

    Daily Beast: (Rudy Guiliani)“He stands 5’ 11” and tips the scales at an imposing 230 pounds, according to booking records, which list his hair color as ‘gray or partially gray.’”

    Can’t wait for TIFG’s measurements AND what color(s) used to describe the rat’s nest on his head!

  91. 91.

    MazeDancer

    You can watch 3 minute clips of Ina and guest from each episode on Food Network

    You can also view the whole season on Discovery+ which starts at $4.99 a month. And has a free trial. At discoveryplus.com. Or click “start trial” on show on Amazon.

    You can pay for a month and cancel if you can’t watch all you want in 7 days.

    But I highly, highly recommend “For the Love of Kitchens” on discovery plus. Which is about DeVol kitchens who design and install these swoon worthy kitchens, mostly in the UK.

    Though they have a show room in Manhattan. And two of the best episodes are in the US.

  93. 93.

    UncleEbeneezer

    And since my wife doesn’t return until Saturday, I’m still watching horror stuff (which she doesn’t love).  Last night I watched Things Seen And Heard on Netflix, starring James Norton and Amanda Seyfried (and F. Murray Abraham) in a haunted house/ghost story that takes place in Hudson Valley.  It was good but not great.  But it did have some really great Fall scenery and stunning landscapes etc.  I’s categorize it as: Scary Movie that isn’t really scary but is still enjoyable.  Much like the Hill House/Bly Manor films, which didn’t scare me at all, but I still liked them.  It’s a good one to bookmark for the Fall/Halloween.

  99. 99.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Alison Rose:

    God damn, I really wish his parents had never met.

    If the WGA strike ever ends, I’d like to see a film in which the main character uses a time machine to travel back in time to prevent Trump’s parents from ever meeting each other thereby saving the nation from this lunatic.

  103. 103.

    VeniceRiley

    File under only in LA: David Grohl showed up fot  my cousin’s kid at a small album launch gig and backed her up on drums.

    I don’t want to host a dinner party, I just want to be invited!

  104. 104.

    Scout211

    @LAO: Yes! Denied. Link

    Jones wrote that “the clear statutory language for removing a criminal prosecution, does not support an injunction or temporary stay prohibiting District Attorney Willis’s enforcement or execution of the arrest warrant against Meadows.”

  106. 106.

    bbleh

    @LAO: oooowww, 0 for 2 now.

    I DO hope the poor dears don’t have trouble making reservations

    “In support of his motion to stay booking or arrest, the Defendant notes that accommodations at a hotel of suitable quality within close proximity to the jail are presently unavailable.”

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tony Jay: ​
      Keith Moon, Oliver Reed, Catherine Deneuve, Charles James Fox, Sinead O’Connor, Rodrigo Borgia, and Eleanor Roosevelt. It might be a short party, but it would be memorable.

  111. 111.

    Alison Rose

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Seriously. Because even if both of them had kids with other people, the awfulness would be diluted, so we’d just have two pompous failed casino owners who maybe end up running for city council or something.

  114. 114.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Elizabelle:

    99% of our chattering class have no fucking shame.

    If you polled the members of the White House Press Corps for their preference between Biden and Trump, Trump would win in a landslide in spite of January 6 and his avalanche of lies. They don’t care that he’s a fascist because he provides them with an endless stream of entertainment.

  115. 115.

    Jackie

    @Betty Cracker: And to add a positive note, President Biden will air his first national campaign ad on FAUX just before the debate!👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁

    “Fox News viewers tuning in to tonight’s Republican debate will also hear from an unexpected voice: Joe Biden.”

    “The president’s reelection campaign has purchased airtime on Fox News, Semafor has learned, and plans to run its first national television advertisement of the 2024 cycle during the time slot directly before Wednesday’s 9 p.m. ET debate. Titled “Fought Back,” the ad highlights Biden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the passage of infrastructure and semiconductor legislation.”

    https://www.semafor.com/article/08/23/2023/bidens-first-2024-national-tv-ad-will-run-on-fox-before-gop-debate

  116. 116.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @LAO: I see the fixed the lighting from yesterday. Wonder if the PAB saw Eastman’s and requested better lighting?

  117. 117.

    Suzanne

    Is anybody else having uproarious laffs on family group texts discussing the mug shots?! LAWL.

  121. 121.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Wyatt Salamanca: ​
      I mentioned that in a morning thread. In addition to the inappropriateness of it, both Trump’s and DeSantis’s people chose a very standard, nice, but overpriced steakhouse. They could have done so much better in the same neighborhood. Very much a more money than taste choice.

  122. 122.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Alison Rose:

    If you buy into the concept of a multiverse, there may well be some parallel universe in which Trump is a permanent resident of a mental hospital.

  124. 124.

    JPL

    Seems like this guy might have trouble making bail

    Defendant in Trump Georgia case was earlier charged with attacking FBI agent

    Harrison William Prescott Floyd is accused of assaulting an agent working on Justice Department’s probe of efforts to obstruct 2020 election

    Washington Post

  127. 127.

    Elizabelle

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Too many of the buckrakers seem amoral, and deeply ignorant of history.

    I suspect some of the younger reporters bought, uncritically, into the “Saint Reagan” crap too.  No institutional memory.

    I wish William Shirer or Edward R. Murrow could come back and shame them all.

    The crowd at that dinner:  whores.  Plain and simple.

  129. 129.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @twbrandt: Rupert both despises his audience and would probably sell one of his own hundred year old kidneys if he could find a buyer with enough cash.

  131. 131.

    cain

    @eclare: I’ve been a fan since I was a teen – I love Rush. :P

    I like Led Zeppelin – but not for a dinner party :-)

    I might add Loreena McKennit, Clannad, and The Corrs  and maybe the Chieftains just to round it out. :D

  135. 135.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Dating back to election night of 2016, I’ve lost track of how many days I’ve woken up or gone to bed feeling like George Taylor in the final scene of Planet of the Apes or Jake Gittes in the final scene of Chinatown.

  137. 137.

    Quiltingfool

    Late to the thread…Miss Betty, I wish you could cook with Ina!  I’m not a fan of cooking, but I do enjoy watching Ina cook.  My favorite thing is eating food other people have prepared, lol!

    Now my fan girl crush is for Deb Tucker, the Quilt Diva who developed the most marvelous quilting rulers; difficult quilt blocks (ones that make you tear your hair out) are made easy peasy with her rulers.

    I met her at a quilt show.  I begged her for a job.  I have no shame.

  138. 138.

    Elizabelle

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  In a different mediaite story, a “source” says Dana Bash and David Chalian “paid for their own dinner.”

    So it’s all alright, I guess.

    That is a type of Clarence Thomas defense, is it not?

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud:  Well, yes.  And that occurred as I typed.

    But it’s such a useless excuse.  They accepted the invite, and were there.

  144. 144.

    Sure Lurkalot

    So, Fox is going to insert existing clips of Trump spouting word salad answers to questions they plan to ask the elite eight on stage? Wouldn’t that mean they have to frame some of the debate questions around the clips? The guy disses you bigly and you still let him set the agenda, Fox? Sad!

  145. 145.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Dinner Parties are always disappointing because I feel like I never get to have any really deep conversation with anyone and nobody really gets to get deep into any topic before the subject is changed.  It would only be interesting to me if it was organized by topic.

    Politics/The World: Hillary, Obama, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala, Timothy Snyder, Rev. Barber

    Sports: Billie Jean King, Serena, Rafael Nadal, Federer, Iga Swiatek (Party has a strict Vaccine requirement, sorry Novax, lol)

    Music (we are definitely jamming):  Kamasi Washington, Brad Mehldau, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Beyonce & Jay-Z, Chris Cornell (RIP), Jeff Tweedy

  146. 146.

    Dangerman

    @VeniceRiley: Grohl definitely marches to the beat of his own, well, you know. Earlier this year he did a massive BBQ for an LA homeless shelter; his BBQ rig is big enough to house a small Family.

    OK, women for the dinner party:

    Jackie Joyner Kersee (does she remember me from UCLA? no particular reason she should)

    Julie Hayek (same, but our paths only crossed once, but oh my goodness)

    Christa McCauliff (another twist for a last choice)

  147. 147.

    rikyrah

     

    I had the Carol Burnett 90th birthday celebration on my DVR and watched it today. Carol has led A rich life. She has worked with so many in Hollywood. How many folks could count Julie Andrews as their best friend. Those clips of her show, still making me laugh after all these years. If you missed it, they are replaying it tonight on NBC. So many😂😂😂

  149. 149.

    Steve in the ATL

    @JPL: ​ my wife, a proud resident of Fulton County, Georgia, has received a jury duty summons–this could be fun!​

  150. 150.

    Elizabelle

    The Guardian, with a Reuters report, below. I rather like that Wagner concluded Hell was a likely destination.  The text has a certain roguish charm to it, admittedly for a Bad Person.
    And, who knows what is true on the internets?

    A Telegram channel associated with the Wagner group said Wednesday that Prigozhin has died, Reuters reported.

    From Reuters:

    Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, a Telegram channel affiliated with his Wagner mercenary group reported on Wednesday.

    “The head of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a true patriot of his Motherland Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin died as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia,” a post in the Grey Zone channel said.

    “But even in Hell, he will be the best! Glory to Russia!”

  152. 152.

    Timill

    @Omnes Omnibus: If you’re trying to get a large(ish) bunch of people to agree on a restaurant for dinner, you’re likely to wind up at a steakhouse as the LCD. And if you ask the concierge for a recommendation, it’ll be overpriced…

  155. 155.

    trollhattan

    My dream was always to be invited to join Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner for their daily breakfast. Alas.

    Mel, hell yes I’d still come over!

  157. 157.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Timill: ​
      I was just looking at Google Maps. There are at least 10 places I would recommend over Rare within 0,6 miles of Rare. Also, that’s just using standard Euro/American food. If we go “ethnic,” the number goes up. Some might be a bit small for a group of Trumpies and media whores, but still.

  159. 159.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Omnes Omnibus: I worked in the world of finance and steakhouses were the most common venue for business dinners. I attribute it to the pretentiousness and clubby decor. Where else to get a half head of iceberg lettuce smothered in blue cheese dressing or a baked potato the size of your head for $15 per? So impressive (not).

  161. 161.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Elizabelle:

    @Elizabelle:

    I wish William Shirer or Edward R. Murrow could come back and shame them all.

    Thanks for mentioning two of my favorite journalists! I wish we could also bring back Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, and Peter Jennings.

    With few exceptions, our current crop of journalists are not worth a warm bucket of urine.

  163. 163.

    MomSense

    I like Ina except she came to Maine to host a fundraiser ( rich people paid big bucks for her to cook dinner) for her dear friend Eliot fucking Cutler.  Look up what he’s been up to lately. It’s ugly.

    Anyway I know it’s stupid but I’ve had a hard time with her ever since.

  168. 168.

    JPL

    @Steve in the ATL: hahaha

    Tell her to watch out for Ray Smith because he looks like a character out of a Dennis Lehane book.   Since you know all the local attorneys had you heard about him?

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I know it’s petty and irrelevant but I really wanted the weigh in to happen

    Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski. 16m

    Since the Fulton Jail is allowing them to self-report their own height and weight, what numbers will Trump give them?

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    opiejeanne

    @BeautifulPlumage: Didn’t you post the Ogden Nash poem about the various lamas?

    The one-L lama, he’s a priest

    The two-L llama, he’s a beast

    But I’ll bet a silk pajama

    There isn’t any three-L lllama.

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    kalakal

    @Tony Jay: For the first few minutes Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, and Derek Nimmo. After that I wouldn’t care as I’d have died laughing

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    wjca

    @Baud:

    Clarence doesn’t pay for shit.

    Now that’s just silly.  Of course he pays.  Just not in cash, but in services.

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    Wyatt Salamanca

    @rikyrah:

    I love Carol Burnett!  Not only a brilliant comedian, but a genuinely decent person as well.  During the taping of one episode, Harvey Korman berated a crew member for a technical mistake.  After Burnett learned of the incident, she told Korman that if he ever publicly belittled a staffer again, she’d fire him immediately.

     

    Given Burnett’s incredible comedic talent, I never understood why she has not received an invitation to guest host Saturday Night Live.

     

    Also loved her appearances in Better Call Saul.  I’ve never seen the tv film Friendly Fire, but I’ve read that Burnett delivered a great performance in it.

     

    My favorite Carol Burnett Show highlight

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

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    Sure Lurkalot

    @Omnes Omnibus: Steakhouses are OK if someone else is paying (I’ve never had a bad steak even if the rest of the meal was ultra meh), otherwise as you mentioned, there are usually dozens of better choices nearby in most cities and metro areas.

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