The Week in Entertainment

Hmmm. I seem to have missed last week. So here's two weeks' worth (and late at that! Ah, vacations...)

DVD: The Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol, which somehow I'd never seen before.

TV: All the usual suspects were in reruns, except for Better Off Ted, which was quite funny, and Scrubs, which wasn't. I loved Veronica's assessment of Linda: "You're weak and will never be a threat to me, which is your greatest asset." Many Sherlock Holmes movies, mostly with Basil Rathbone (in a TCM festival) and one silent(!) with John Barrymore. Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which I thought I had seen before but which was only vaguely familiar (and that may be because of Heaven Can Wait). Bedtime Story - the 1942 one with Loretta Young and Frederic March - which featured a total jerk of a husband winning back his wife. Adam's Rib, in which I always have to admit Hepburn is the annoying one. The George C. Scott A Christmas Carol, my favorite (though Mr. Magoo's comes a very close second). White Christmas, of course.

Read: I Do Not Come to You by Chance, which is a remarkable novel about the Nigerian 419 scammers, funny and poignant and riveting.