A Great Story Was Reduced To Contrivance, On 'SVU', Last Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                I am telling you, Baby Gojira and I were so excited last week, darlings.  "SVU' was about to take on the case of Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley.  Now, whenever there is a criminal couple, the female gets all the fascination.  Case in point--Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.  Brady was unquestionably sick, but who was reviled, and still is, as the Most Hated Woman In Britain?????????  Myra Hindley.

                                 Now, Grant was a plastic surgeon with an alpha body and ego.  He had had a brief go on Reality TV, in 2013--with the looks and body to back it up--and success all the way.  But he and Cerissa took partying a bit further.  They craved three ways, but the catch was the third party had to be non-consensual, because they both got off on control.  They were a pair of serial rapists, who, in 2016, perpetrated these sex crimes upon several unsuspecting women, whom they would meet up at parties, and select them as victims for that night.

                                  These two should be looking a lengthy prison terms.  But that Cerissa.  What makes a woman do harm to another woman?  That is what I hoped the 'SVU' episode would examine.

                                   However--

In the highly sanitized 'SVU' episode, "Plastic" plastic TV surgeon, the couple are Dr. Heath Baron, played by noteworthy guest star, Mark Feuerrstein, late of the sitcom "Royal Pains," and his girlfriend, Sadie Parker, who, get this girls, runs a designer cupcake shop o the Upper East Side. Charming, huh? They are sexual predators who prey for control and dominance, and one of their victims, Ava Parcell (guest star Willa Fitzgerald) comes forward to explain she was raped by a couple, whom with the aid of photos, she identifies as Heath and Sadie.

What I wanted from here was some insight into why someone like Sadie would go along with something so evil and sadistic.  Not that she will ever top Myra Hindley, but why is it the woman who comes off as more evil?  Because they violate their conventional roles?  Definitely.  But what makes them want to?  In the case of Sadie, and Myra, I am sure it was more than the influence of a man.  That can wear fast, honey, and even Brady was tiring of Myra at the end, trying to recruit brother-in-law, David Smith, which screwed them, and Heath comes dragging women into bed even more beautiful than Sadie.

Sadie is one cold thing, until the major contrivance comes in,   When Heath was in medical school, he rented a house nearby, and there may have been other victims there.  A photo is found of a fourteen-year-old girl named Ceci Taylor, the daughter of veteran guest star Kevin O'Rourke, in a nice, sympathetic performance.  She had run away fourteen years before, and he still has not given up hope.  The team go to search the house, find some wall paneling that is not there, and, lo and behold, a dead body emerges.  Is it Ceci? Who?????????????

Heath Baron's goose is cooked.  He is going off to prison, but, unfortunately, we don't seeing him getting slapped or treated the way he deserves.  As I said, this episode, was highly sanitized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The big scene, of course, takes place with Olivia.  The contrivance is she breaks Sadie down, only to discover that she is actually the missing Ceci Taylor.  She was abducted by a girl named Moira from a park in Brooklyn, when she was 14, and taken to Heath's lake house, which she thought of as fun.   The next day, Moira was gone, Heath said she had gone home to her mother, but he was paneling a wall that did not need it.  At fourteen, Ceci could not catch on; eventually she did.

Ceci sees Daddy, cuts a deal, and Olivia gets her last shot of exasperation--"Never, in  my entire career...……."

What should have been penetrating and insightful wasn't.  The perps should have been more monstrous than they were allowed to portray, and they should have  been slapped across the interrogation room several times.  That is what you do with criminals as monstrous as these!

No insights, no trial, no convictions, nothing.

So, what was the point, in watching????????????

Girls, I Love The Nancy Burpee Commercial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  I have always loved the commercial, but when I read and heard about all the things Nancy has had to overcome throughout her life, and she is still competing in swimming, I was floored.  I always wait for that final shot of Nancy, gently floating down the pool lane, waving to everyone.  I feel like she is waving to me, encouraging me to try and overcome whatever I need to.
So, I always wave back at Nancy, with a promise to try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   Keep it up, Nancy!  And keep airing that commercial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   Countless of us do count on you!  Every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, Isn't This The Cutest Image, Dolls????????????????????

                                      This is the snake in the woods that Amy Sedaris charmed.  I forget what she named him--but isn't he cute?  He reminds me of our own, beloved Baby Gojira, when he kisses us before we shut out the lights, and go to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         Amy is coming back with new episodes of her own shown on February 19, and don't you miss it!  I am sure all the old friends will be there, and maybe some new ones!!!!!!!!!!

                                          My David just loves Nutmeg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          Here is a snippet of Amy's "Crafting Corner" segment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something To Cheer Us Up, Girls--Lee Radziwill's Apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Whether the apartment is in New York, where I would prefer, or Paris, which might be nice for a getaway, Lee is still with us to uphold glamour, in a town, where, having now lost Lord And Taylor, is soon to sink into the muck and mire.  But not if Lee can help it!

Look at this gorgeous red room!  I would love just to have THAT, darlings, never mind the rest of the apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Such elegance, dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a bit more understated, for guests!!!!!!!!!!  I would keep the red room for myself, hubby, and closest friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lee still has the sense of glamour this town needs!  I aim to carry out her legacy.

Even if I have to do it on Amy Sedaris' budget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is an inside look at Lee's Paris apartment!  New York or Paris, who cares!!!!!!!!!

We all LOVE you, Lee!!!!!!!!!!!

A REAL Long Island Bitch, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               What better locale for our Bitch Of The Week, than Long Island???????????????

                                Renee Burke, this week's winner, was in the midst of a custody dispute over their four year old son, and eight year old daughter.  Living in Holbrook, Long Island, Matthew had moved with his son to a nearby apartment.  Renee became fascinated with trying to get rid of him with antifreeze, and made a series of break ins to her husband's place, where she would pour antifreeze into his wine and sodas.  One time, her son saw her do this, and told the babysitter.

                                   Matthew took one sip, and spit it out.  I guess Renee did not mix well, because antifreeze is supposed to be colorless and tasteless.  Especially those who have succeeded in killing their spouses, this way. And there have been some.

                                     The poisonings took place between September1 and September 12, 2108.  She was caught, arrested, indicted.  She is now being held on $400K bond.

                                       She could face five to twenty five years in prison, and I hope she gets the twenty five!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I hope Matthew takes the kids and runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       See, boys and girls, the Wicked Queen from "Snow White" really is out there!

                                        And most of them live on Long Island!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Book Was The Biggest Literary Disappointment Of 2018!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          Just as Joshua Ferris' short story collection, "The Dinner Party," finished me with him, last year, so "Killing Commendatore does, this year, for me, with Haruki Murakami.

                                            The book was so hyped it demanded to be the Book Of The Year.  Carrying it about was like hauling a massive science text, back in high school!!!!!!!!!!

                                              The story centers around the abandoned house of the painter of the book's title, a semi-retired artist who takes up residence there, a mysterious neighbor, living across the way, and a young girl, her father and aunt, who may or may not be the other neighbor's long lost daughter.  Supernatural things happen, as I expected they would, but it does not matter. Murakami gives us not one shred of originality.  Much of this ponderous, overlong book, that repeats things time and again, is recycled from one of his better works, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                                It pained me to pick this volume up every time.  But I did out of respect for Murakmai, and because I wanted to see if there was some kind of narrative payoff.  There really was not.

                                                   In the end, I am forced to invoke a quote from Dorothy Parker. When she was the Constant Reader for "The New Yorker," she reviewed a book so distasteful to her she wrote the now famous quote, "Tonstant weader fwowoed up."

                                                     Well, that's how I felt about "Killling Commendatore."

                                                      Constant Reader throwed up.

                                                       Skip this one, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             Remember Andrew Lloyd Webber's onetime writing partner, Tim Rice? He is still trying to make a go of it, but maybe it is time for him to stop.  Since 2013, he, librettist Bill Oakes, and composer Stuart Brayson have been cooking up a musical version of--get this--James Jones' novel, and the 1953 film classic, "From Here To Eternity."  Plans are on to open a production in London this year.  May it not cross to these shores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               First, who cares?  Second the perfection of the film cast is impossible to duplicate.  Its dramatic and sex situations are dated and tricky, and to update....well what would be the point?  It would not be "From Here To Eternity."

                                  Why do composers and lyricists waist their talents on desperate ideas.  I could never see this done as a musical.  Even Sinatra did not sing a note in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Camp classics make good musical source material.  But not genuine ones.

                                      I would rather take a tour of Lee Radziwill's apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!