Could that Birkin bag be more mismatched for vintage-cords-and-old-baby-T's Rory? More importantly, why did overdyed crocodile skin score such high relationship points? Emily is convinced the bag means security. I'm not quite sure what Rory thinks, though who could believe she had no idea how expensive and coveted that bag really is? (Surely her mother once made some witty reference to proud owners Gwyneth, Madonna or Martha.) What an opportune time to tell Logan she loves him! (At least she didn't do it as she was hugging that pink monstrosity.) I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing it. Expensive gifts, whirlwind trips, wild parties… whatever. The guy always has that something-smells-bad look on his face, and all he does is complain. Couldn't he have come up with a better response to Rory's three little words? "I've told a lot of girls I love them and didn't mean it." Charming.
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Henry James' classic thriller The Turn of the Screw is being modernized as a feature called The Turning. (Longish titles are so 19th century.)… NBC is turning Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights feature into a weekly drama, but to me, the filmmaker-actor will always be Linda Fiorentino's "designated [you-know-what]" from The Last Seduction.... Catherine Zeta-Jones will play a female Emeril (because playing a male one would have been quite a stretch for her) in the romantic comedy Mostly Martha, which, though it's an adaptation of the German movie by the same title, desperately needs a name change. Zeets, as Miss Piggy and I call her, can be a Mariel or a Margaux or even a Martine. But Martha? No.
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