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What's Up Doc? with her and Ryan O'Neal is a very funny homage to 1930s screwball comedies that I think you can give a shot.

The Boys do a call in episode with listeners who donated to The Scoop Troop’s GoFundMe for Black Lives Matter, Reclaim the Block, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Color of Change, and The Okra Project.

On the first installment of a special Summer S’mores series, Conan and his team loosen up by sharing memories of summers past.

So Roger Ebert says one way to determine if a film is going to be bad: Box Rule: Useful rule-of-thumb about movie advertisements that have a row of little boxes across the bottom, each one showing the face of a different international star and the name of a character (e.g., “Curt Jurgens as the Commandant”). The rule is: Automatically avoid such films. Example: “'The Cassandra Crossing,” “'Force 10 from Navarone,” and most films made from Agatha Christie novels. Well look at the Don't Her It's Me movie poster. Apparently everyone did know this as nobody saw this film and I had never ever heard of it until the other day in the mini episode.

I watched Funny Lady overnight and enjoyed it overall. (I'm not sure how much of that is from having seen the first movie recently. If I had to wait seven years for it I might not have had the same affection.) James Caan does a much better job than I expected. Billy Rose is still a world-class asshole, and it's stupid how easily Fanny gives in, but she (spoiler alert) does get her own back in the end. We get to see a lot more of Fanny's inner thoughts and how she deals with things, instead of the slapdash style of the first movie. Several people commented on how Barbra was made to look stunning in Funny Girl. In Funny Lady that's dialed up a few notches, including the sex appeal with some very revealing costumes. There are some troublesome "blackface" or "Lawd, save us" numbers. (The latter has the most revealing costume.) Ben Vereen has a part in the worst blackface song and then has a solo a short while later. I am surprised that a 1970s musical would have troublesome numbers in it, even if it is depicting the 1930s. I enjoyed it and wouldn't mind seeing it again. For others, let me quote the best Letterboxd review from indi: "my parade: rained on". (I just had to add that since several people mentioned "Don't Rain on my Parade".)

Quotes like, "We're selling my human-boy skin-pants.", are jewels that I take with me through my week. Thank you.

Ive tried explaining this movie to people before and it's never not ended with them looking at me like a fucking lunatic.