#classic sitcoms

The Seinfeld cast (Jason "George Costanza" Alexander, Jerry "Jerry Seinfeld" Seinfeld, Julia "Elaine Benes" Louis-Dreyfus and Michael "Cosmo Kramer" Richards) posing for the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine N°660/661 (July 8-22, 1993).

Died on this day: consummate character actress (and scene stealer par excellence) - Agnes Moorehead (6 December 1900 – 30 April 1974)! Moorehead significantly improves every film she appears in simply by virtue of her presence. Off the top of my head, some of my favourite Moorehead performances would include: Citizen Kane (1941) of course; the 1947 film noir Dark Passage – ostensibly a vehicle for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, but it’s Moorehead in a secondary role who makes the indelible impression; as the sympathetic and progressive prison superintendent in Caged (1950); as Jane Wyman’s bitchy socialite friend and neighbour in Douglas Sirk’s masterpiece All That Heaven Allows (1955); as Countess de Brion in The Opposite Sex (1956) and as the tough-as-nails bleached blonde brothel madam (and Jane Russell’s employer) in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956). But even in her ignominious final feature film – the no-budget hagsploitation horror flick Dear Dead Delilah (1971) – Moorehead is majestic. (We screened Delilah as our Lobotomy Room film club “Halloween presentation" a few years ago to a packed house!). And her status as a beloved gay icon is forever assured from her stint as Elizabeth Montgomery's flame-haired mother, the ultra-campy, drag queen-like Endora (pictured) in the TV series Bewitched.

TV Tuesday - Buster Keaton guest stars on The Donna Reed Show in a series of misunderstandings when Donna lends her car to Midge.

Headcanon: Pugsley is the only neurotypical Addams, and the family has one of those ‘I love my neurotypical son’ bumper stickers completely unironically.

kind of cunty of rené artois to fake his death and come back as his own twin then lie about it to the faces of people he's known for ages in the middle of a war.

Absolutely in love with this cover of "Suicide Is Painless" by Lady & Bird. The song is more commonly known as the MASH* theme song and was first made by Johnny Mandel, and an instrumental version was used for the TV series. Because at time you weren't allowed to mention suicide on TV.

If you've never seen MASH* I'd get on that, by the way. It's one of a few TV series that I think qualifies as a Must Watch. It was a brilliant anti-war protest that was way ahead of its time, and I don't think it gets enough love.