Sons & Daughters Way to go, Cameron! Way to give your mom a heart attack. OK, so she just has angina. You’re off the hook. However, your nephew thinks something’s wrong with Grandma’s “vagina.” Have fun explaining that one. I tell ya, nothing brings a family together like a trip to the hospital. And it’s a surefire way for Mom to get her husband, Wendal, back. I can’t help it, but every time I see Max Gail, I can’t stop thinking that he played Harold in the '80s movie D.C. Cab. Did anyone see that film? I also can’t help thinking Cameron’s wife, Liz, looks a little like Debra Messing. Anyone?
But I’m digging the relationships between Jenna, Wiley and Whitey. In a weird way, I’m rooting f
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He Knew He Was RightMarch is Women's History Month, folks, and Masterpiece Theatre has given us a present: Besides having that delightfully declarative sentence for a title, He Knew He Was Right is also a big, fat, Victorian middle finger to tyrannical husbands everywhere. (Yes, dearies, we know you're still out there.) Louis Trevelyan is madly in love with his free-spirited, fresh-from-the-Tropics wife, Emily, who pours into his dusty Mayfair manse like a shot of Mandarin Stoli at teatime. Within months, however, he has driven himself to madness with jealous suspicions that Emily's having an affair with her elderly godfather, a swaggering ex-Lothario played to prurient perfection by Bill Nighy. (How fitting that Part 1 opens with a shot o
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Good morning, midnight: Heather Matarazzo
Question: I've heard that Heather Matarazzo, who played Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse, hated the character, and that's why she isn't in Palindromes. Is that true, or did the director not want her?
Answer: Director Todd Solondz has said he desperately wanted Heather Matarazzo to reprise the part of Dawn Wiener; in fact, he says he begged her to play Dawn first in Storytelling (2002) and then in Palindromes (2005), but she insisted she never wanted to play the role again. So Solondz killed her: Dawn's funeral opens Palindromes. Matarazzo, who was 11 when Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) was s
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