We hope everyone had a good Christmas – or, if you do not celebrate Christmas, a good version of whatever seasonal observance you do celebrate.
In this week’s TMQ, the purge.
No, not that one (though we commend to your attention the “The Purge” episode of “Phil and Lisa Ruin the Movies”), but the annual NFL coaching purge, or as we call it, “Bloody Monday”. After the jump…
The hapless Jacksonville Jaguars have fired offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch.
In other news, am I allowed to laugh maniacally at the idea of Gary Kubiak coaching the Jets?
The LAT is reporting the death of Luise Rainer at the age of 104.
I’d never heard of Ms. Rainer until I read her obit, but she’s one of those interesting Hollywood stories. She started out acting on the stage in Germany, was signed by MGM and came to Hollywood in 1935, won two consecutive Academy Awards (Best Actress, 1936, “The Great Ziegfeld”, and Best Actress, 1937, “The Good Earth”)…
…and then pretty much disappeared from Hollywood.
She was unhappily married to Clifford Odets for a time.
Edited to add: Very nice McFadden obit from the NYT.
Mr. Dowd was the NYPD detective who led the task force that caught David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz.
This brought a smile to my face:
Ms. Begg [Mr. Dowd’s daughter – DB] said in an interview on Monday that her father had disdained television dramas about the police because they were unrealistic about police work — all except one, she said: “Columbo.” That series, especially popular in the 1970s, starred Peter Falk as an untidy, seemingly distracted detective in Los Angeles who solved cases by poking around in a practiced but random fashion and stumbling in the direction of a solution.
“That’s how it’s done,” she said her father explained to her.