What do you think about this?

[Bramblethorn]

I'll say this about this, well, about the reimagined Matlock... It's been fantastic! So maybe, just maybe, this one will be good too. And you got to love Jamie, she has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS): that's right, nuts that didn't descend, and born without a dick, had a pussy instead, but no ovaries. A superfem!

That's a rumour that's been doing the rounds for a long time, but to the best of my knowledge JLC has never confirmed it. It seems like the kind of thing that's not anybody else's business unless she chooses to make it public.

But she does seem like a pretty good person, as far as one can ever tell with celebrities.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'll say this about this, well, about the reimagined Matlock... It's been fantastic! So maybe, just maybe, this one will be good too. And you got to love Jamie, she has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS): that's right, nuts that didn't descend, and born without a dick, had a pussy instead, but no ovaries. A superfem!

I've heard this, but my understanding is that this is not confirmed. It's unverified rumor.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I now work on the principle that any reanimated media property, created decades after the original and with completely different people in front of and behind the camera should, for all intents and purposes, be treated as a completely new show and should not automatically expect to inherit any fans or goodwill as a result of wearing the skin of a long dead property.

I like JLC, her being in anything is a plus. For the rest, we'll see.

 

[XerXesXu]

I haven't watched a minute of TV in more years than I have fingers on both hands.

I got rid of my TV in 1976. Now the original couch-potatoes are complaining that their great-grandchildren spend all their time slumped in a chair doom-scrolling.

I often put on an episode of an old TV series when I go to bed, but I never find out whodunnit.

 

[TheLobster]

The only thing I recall JLC from as of late is the idiotic take about Colbert's show cancellation, and for all I care she can remain unemployed.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I haven't watched a minute of TV in more years than I have fingers on both hands.

Were you in the bomb squad, perhaps?

 

[gunhilltrain]

My god, you ARE hard to please .

I don't fit in May-December stories any more either. What is beyond December? I think we all know. Not that I was ever smoking hot, that's for sure.

 

[iwatchus]

I think we wrap around.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Were you in the bomb squad, perhaps?

I can top that. I don't even own a TV now. Well, I own one but the cable is disconnected. I prefer drinking tea and reading Henry James. I admit I skipped over about half of The Spoils of Poynton. He can get a bit wordy at times. And I would never name a character Fleda Vetch.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I agree. Why not start a completely different series with different characters? They're going to be different anyway, so why piggyback off the old series?

Brand recognition...

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I can top that. I don't even own a TV now. Well, I own one but the cable is disconnected. I prefer drinking tea and reading Henry James. I admit I skipped over about half of The Spoils of Poynton. He can get a bit wordy at times. And I would never name a character Fleda Vetch.

I couldn't support more NOT watching TV.

 

[Levorotatory]

I don't fit in May-December stories any more either. What is beyond December? I think we all know. Not that I was ever smoking hot, that's for sure.

It's the analogy that needs to be fixed. If you are going to condense the average human lifespan into a year, each month represents 7 years. Thus the 20-something + 60-something scenario really should be called April-October, not May-December. May-December should be early 30s + late 70s or older.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I use television and movies to recharge my battery. Sometimes, I've been contracted to write a blog entry or podcast script for a person on a TV show or movie. It isn't enough that they give me notes on what they liked and disliked. I need to watch some of the show, or the whole episode, or the movie, to get a good grasp of what I need to write well. These days, some of the best shows, movies, and miniseries outshine movies. Then again, I was raised by people who ran theaters. So, entertainment became part of who I am. I'm a voracious reader, which is one of the best forms of entertainment. If you view TV as a waste of time, I understand. To each his own.

I haven't watched a minute of TV in more years than I have fingers on both hands.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, I may have misstated and didn't mean to imply it as fact. But she has all the hallmarks of the syndrome. She also has all the hallmarks of a good person.

I've heard this, but my understanding is that this is not confirmed. It's unverified rumor.

That's a rumour that's been doing the rounds for a long time, but to the best of my knowledge JLC has never confirmed it. It seems like the kind of thing that's not anybody else's business unless she chooses to make it public.

But she does seem like a pretty good person, as far as one can ever tell with celebrities.

 

[designatedvictim]

Write it.


"New England Spinster and Mystery Author Charged With Hundreds Of Counts Of Murder."

Yeah, I know this is two weeks old, but...

I woke up this morning and it was stuck in my head.

I started with a title, Airtight Alibi.

Not about Mrs. Fletcher (no, not with that title - shudder), that would be disrespectful of Angela Lansbury.

This would be about her never-before-heard-of niece, a now just-past-40 cougar-ish widow (**cough**) who lives in the shadow of her more famous aunt.

Probably gonna spend the odd moment, here and there, trying to flesh out some sort of story around that minimal skeleton.

The title suggests its own Lit-relevant plot line.

It's all your fault FIH!!!

Mentally debating on having a new victim or having a Body Heat-style ending with her recounting the death of her husband (framing the husband's affair partner - If I can't have you, no one can!)

I don't know if I'll go through with it. Murder mystery isn't my genre. Nor are foursomes.

P.S.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, when a search turned up at least two stories with that in the name.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Mentally debating on having a new victim or having a Body Heat-style ending with her recounting the death of her husband (framing the husband's affair partner - If I can't have you, no one can!)

Mix in a little of The Cool Surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cool_Surface

 

[designatedvictim]

Mix in a little of The Cool Surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cool_Surface

Interesting that you mention that.

I've never seen this, but the synopsis is kinda like what I was thinking if going along the Body Heat lines: recounting the husband's death as fertilizer on her own new murder mystery novel, trying to follow on in Auntie Jessica's footsteps. (Haven't decided if Auntie Jess is the serial killer my earlier comment suggested, but that could work, too.)

Niece, of course, would have interned for Dearest Auntie while she was still writing fulltime, so she'd likely know more than the average bear how to handle the little details.