Have you been watching one of my all-time favorites, Laura Linney, doing her stuff on cable as a woman who thinks she is dying of cancer in The Big C? This is comedic drama at its best and happens on Showtime on Sunday nights at 10:30 PM EST.

“THE RATE at which a person can mature is directly proportionate to the embarrassment he can tolerate,” said the great American inventor, Douglas Engelbart. *** REALLY? Well, I hate to disagree with a famous brain, but if we were to take Mr. Engelbart at his word, the entire GOP (especially since the election of Barack [...]

I am suggesting today that you read a brand-new book by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, titled Winner-Take-All Politics.

“I HAVE never put the make on a girl in my life. I just don’t know how to do it. My instincts are always to leave it to the woman.”

This remark, incredibly, comes from the most dissolute-looking of all the Rolling Stones –- the indestructible Keith Richards.

How does the costume designer for TV’s hit Mad Men keep her forces in line and stop them from stepping out of the ’60s fashion orbit?

“That’s Jane Fonda, isn’t it? Yeah. I know her, she sang ‘Let’s Get Physical’ a long time ago.”

“Uhhhh, actually it was Olivia Newton-John who sang that.”

“Oh, sorry — who’s Olivia Newton-John?”

“Beauty is only skin deep? I think beauty is both skin and body deep!” says Elizabeth Hurley.

After writing yesterday’s piece about the British actress and her work with the Estée Lauder people and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, I find I have a few snippets of further insight to the beauteous Liz.

As Broadway’s fall season descends on us – and it is a season almost half way full of revivals – I would like to propose that you return or go for the first time to the unique Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical “Next to Normal.” And I do mean all of you, not just those who dig rock.

“WENT to a mah-velous party!” as Noel Coward once opined. Well, in this day and age, such a party is a far cry from the long-ago ’20s when there were mah-velous parties everywhere. Nowadays any get-together is a solid hit if it boasts big names, has good cocktail food and the centerpiece (host/hostess) is someone of distinction for whom you don’t mind coming out on a rainy night.