Sean Connery was one of those actors who really improved the more he aged. ... hes really at his best later on in Robin and Marian and The Russia House. Agree about Sean (although I haven't seen THE RUSSIA HOUSE or ROBIN AND MARIAN). Agree about Sean getting better with age. Wasn't excited about Ro...

My favorite movie mother:

I guess I'm a little out of step, but my favorite Robert Ryan movie is About Mrs. Leslie (1954) with Shirley Booth, in which he played a married but lonely industrialist who befriended in a mostly platonic way a kindred spirit (Booth) and vacationed with her once a year, the only time he felt he cou...

BOOM! (1968), based on a lesser Tennessee Williams play. As Burton's character described it to Liz's as waves crash against the cliffs below her home in a movie swarming with metaphors: "Boom. The shock of each moment, of still being alive." OK. Got it.

State Fair (1933) is down for Janet Gaynor but, as in the case of Thelma Ritter / Jeanne Crain, the real star attraction is Will Rogers as the head of the farm family. A young Lew Ayers is in it too. I think TCM showed it way back but I still have my copy from AMC days and that was a terrible print...

The Grammys also featured one of the "sources of light" of my generation, Joni Mitchell. Brandi Carlile mentioned in her intro that she's had to learn to walk three times in her life, as a child, after she had polio and after a crippling aneurism. Yikes. What a life and what a career. Peop...