The Week in Entertainment

A busy week before heading out on vacation...

DVD: Some - a lot - of the old Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. Some were pretty good, but I have to agree with the viewers of the day: Holmes and Nazis just don't mix.

TV: Psych's Christmas episode was great. I love how Shawn's ego makes him think everyone was worse off without him - well, except Lassie, which was just more reason for him to be there! And the polar bear episode was cute, too. I'm in awe of Gus's little car, able to pull that trailer! Leverage - their Christmas episode was anything but "heartwarming" - as Chaos said when they dragged him away and Nate said "Tis the season", "That barely applies here!" But Eliot as Santa and Parker as an elf - that was funny, as was Parker decorating the tree with stolen jewelry and then saying "Happy Birthday, Jesus!"

Read: More of Written in Stone, and Sobachye Serdtse (Heart of a Dog), which was as savagely funny as I'd remembered it.