[spoiler]Wasn't it implied that Carolyn took over the running of the Cannery and the business decisions during Liz's illnesses in 1967 and 1968?  I seem to recall some tense scenes between Kitten and Uncle Roger... and then there was the deliciously icy way in which she dealt with Mr. Blair and little Harry Johnson in '68...[/spoiler]

G.

I so wish there had been at least one scene of Liz, dressed to the nines, running one of those old style Hoover vacuum cleaners, perhaps while humming the melody of that Chopin Prelude.

Of course it would have been a trial if she had had to empty the bag while making sure not to get dust and particles all over her fabulous black cocktail gown.  But challenges such as these are daily fare for one with the steel backbone of the Mistress of Collinwood. (!)

G.

It was OK.  I guess I found the occasion/idea of Parker, Selby, Karlen and Scott working together on a DS story again more exciting than the actual realization.  Excellent production values, though--I will say that for it.

G.

I was able to catch most of part 2 of "House of Despair."  Interesting to hear it...  Part 3 is coming up in 15 minutes!

G.

I am listening.  It started out with the VTR announcer guy's little rap at the beginning of episode one, followed by Vicki's voiceover from that episode.  It then switched to just the music.  Some very committed deejay has arranged the tracks that were used in the first two weeks of the shows in the order in which they were played.  Ingenious!

I don't know how to record stuff that is streaming off the internet.  It would be a fun thing to save and play later on. 

The deejay just came on and identified himself (or his program?) as "Circumference."  He identified the first block of music as all the tracks from episode one. Now he is playing all the cues for episode 2.  In order!  I love this!  If I lived in SF I would take this guy out to lunch to thank him.

Hope other fans besides me are getting to hear this.  The station sounds very cool.  On Saturdays they have a program called the Norman Bates Memorial something or other.  Isn't that wild?

cheers, G. (bopping to "Back at the Blue Whale")

She made a lot of films.  Between 1930 and the 1942 or so, her average was four pictures per year. 

G.

I think it would be a hoot if Alice Cooper had a cameo in the movie.  Maybe the character of Buzz could also have a cameo.

G.

The popular mainstream favorites in her career are Little Women (1933), the Lang films and the Bride films.  Some regard her most artistically poised performance as The Reckless Moment (1949), a dark horse directed by legendary French auteur Max Ophuls; James Mason appeared opposite her in that.  The Walter Wanger shooting scandal happened in 1951 and after that she was more or less blacklisted, although she did appear in a few films.  She started to move more into television at that point.

Her real source of happiness later in life was her daughters and their lives.  She weathered quite a bit of tragedy, including the death of her sister Constance in the 1960s.

G.