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Intense! I felt bad for that giant even though he wasn't the nicest guy. He is brave. He walked into the water but the show wasn't clear where he was going or what happened to him. Maybe he is tall enough to walk all the way? I thought for a second the show found a replacement woman for Jon, and I am glad they decided to not be so unoriginal. I don't understand Cersei's uncle. He may not like Cersei but he has to know what is at stake here regarding the legitimacy of Tommen. How come he is not rescuing Cersei? As for Ser Jorah, I am sort of losing interest. He's dying, let him die in peace. What of any significance can happen here at this point? Arya's story has also lost me. Not sure what to make of this as it is painfully slow detailing her change to master assassin. It's interesting in theory, but not really worth devoting so much storytime to.

Hastert is done. I doubt any prosecutor would go after a House speaker unless they were sure they could get a conviction. The rumored allegations are sordid and ugly and the type that just the accusation is enough to wreck your name. It's amazing with this in his background he even accepted the office in the first place and the the higher profile you are the farther there is to fall. Why even go into public life with this hanging over you?

I disagree on that. JLo has a level of fame that goes beyond music thanks to her beauty probably mostly, but also the public's fascination with her celeb romances. She has like a Zsa Zsa or mini Elizabeth Taylor kind of fame which is why when she goes to the Oscars the media obsesses about what she wears and never forgets her dress from ten years ago or "Benniifer". I honestly can't think of too many stars who have long stalledt singing and acting careers and yet still seem to still be on the A list. She'll probably still be presenting at the Oscars ten years from now too because of her looks and fame which doesn't seem to need hit records to thrive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/politics/george-pataki-republican-nomination.html George Pataki is running for president. Of all the republicans he would be the only one I would vote for.

I wouldn't have thought to call that topic a genre, but if it is I can think of a couple of songs and one in particular that eclipses in fame anything Mariah Carey has ever done and has the ability to stay on the rader as the decades go by. And again this is a song everyone knew and knows, from the diehard disco fans to the diehard disco haters of the 1970s.

I don't know what radio stations you listened to, but they weren't the same ones I did. Which is sort of my point. One of the, or perhaps the biggest songs of the 90s was maybe "I want it that way"? Do people agree on that? You didn't even have to listen to radio to hear it because it was played in the radio at every store, out of many cars and so on. It was inescapable. "Every Breath You Take" was similar in the 80s, along with all those Madonna and Michael hits, and songs like "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", "Oops I did It Again" around 2000, or that dreary Celine song from Titanic. As others have mentioned, only Mariah's christmas song has stuck around. These songs were number one I guess somewhere, but perhaps they were so targeted demographically as to not register outside her fanbase? I literally have not heard any of those songs and couldn't even name you one of her albums. In contrast, Santana's "Smooth" was everywhere all the time and can still be heard today.

I've never heard any one of those songs in my life. Are you saying they were as pervasive as "Material Girl" or "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" or "The Real Slim Shady" or "Bye, Bye, Bye"? Was it really as well known as even "That Don't Impress Me Much", "I'm Sexy And I Know It" or any other mega hits? I could rattle them out all day long. Were they as popular as "Gangsta's Paradise" or "You Light Up My Life?" I just don't see how in the pantheon of number ones this is up there in popularity with "Blurred Lines" or even "Somebody That I Used To Know" which I don't even think went top 10 but managed to get out there anyway.

I don't think I have ever heard any one of these songs. I'll Be There I know what it is because it was a remake, but these number ones were number one where? We hear top hits, and going back however many years from "Every Breath You Take" in 1982 all the way to "uptown funk" this year and going back to the Beatles and Elvis and "I Will Survive" and so many others, when a song was a hit everybody heard it to the point you couldn't avoid it. "Livin La Vida Loca" "I Want It That Way" "Thriller"...real hits blasting from every car, in every store, on every station. I googled "Vision of Love" and can safely say I have never heard that song before in my life.

It is a bummer that all the soaps have such a heavy presence on YT but EoN doesn't. I guess being canceled in 1984 is the main reason, on top of the tiny audience. I soon started tuning out after the Nicole murder. It was becoming a lot of Preacher this and Preacher that, and Jodi, and I lost interest.

Sansa started to change season 1. She started out being this silly girl even lying to protect Jofftey but by the end of the year she was thinking maybe it was time to kill him. Season 2 saw Sansa display her inner strength when it was she who calmed the women down at the battle of Blackwater and prevented everything from turning into panic and chaos--while all Cersei could do was drink. That was when Sansa proved she was strong, not when she died her hair black. You guys have this unfairly narrow view of what is strength, as if you are either Brienne or Cersei or you're nothing. As for the rape, well, she'll wind up a widow I'm sure so this just is one more reason to kill him. I do find the criticism that this is the worst thing he has ever done ridiculous. That is such a "women's pain to the front of the line" way of looking at things. This guy chopped Theon's penis off? He skins people alive and breaks their fingers one bone at a time while ripping their nails out, and sends people into the woods so his dogs can hunt and maul them while they run in fear. None of this happened to Sansa. Sansa has been shining since the very beginning, and thats why they changed the story to include her. They didn't want to writet out one of their main characters, and I don't blame them. Losing Sansa would be a critical hit for the show.

Poor Sansa! Clearly she will have to light the candle in the top window in the near future so the northerners and Brienne can dispose of the Ramseys once and for all. Littlefinger's real goals remain unclear. He had to get the Ramseys to marry Sansa so Cersei could see this as a betrayal and name him Warden, but what about his backup plan of Stannis naming her Wardeness? I thought he might have actually had honest affection for Sansa but that seems hard to justify given tonight. Cersei's schemes against the Tyrell's were interesting as it wasn't actually Loras she was after, but Margerey. I don't see this ending well for them in the clutches of that fanatic, and Tommen is clearly a king in name only. The whole Arya story is interesting but a little confusing Is it they are able to adopt the faces of all those dead people? I love the Jaime and Bronn story. It's high adventure in cool costumes and great fights.

This looks horrible. Not surprising since CBS has always done horrible shows.

But this isn't the book. In the internal logic of this TV series did it make sense for TV Dany to do what she did? The books are not a factor. This is like how everyone knows in the books Batman has Robin sooner or later. In the Christian Bale movies he did not. You just have to move on. In the Avengers it was Ant Man who created Ultron, but Ant Man does not star in the Avengers movies so they had someone else do it. As long as it makes sense for the movie, it is what it is. At some point you may have to say to yourself you don't want to like the show, are predisposed to not liking it, and are seeking out ways to criticize it. You are not alone in this thread doing that. I love the show, and the stories are finally starting to come together. Sansa and Theon haven't been together since season 1 episode and yet here they are. Dany has never met any Lannisters and here comes Tyrion. Jon Snow is slowly stepping up to lead everyone. Is is the best season? No. Is it still better than all the trivial sitcoms and doctor shows and cop shows that get churned out on the assembly line year after year? Yes.

And Chad Coleman was videod on a NY subway ranting like a lunatic. Very odd.

Maybe I am looking at a different hot 100 but tht Wiz Khalifa song is currently number one, followed by Uptown Funk (a really, really catchy tune and maybe the song of the summer) http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 As I said, her die hard fams may disagee, and that is who her twitter followers are, but she is too old for 14 yr olds, hasn't had a breakthrough hit in years, and the fact she is hiding in Vegas where all oldies acts go I think just illustrates my point. That's like saying Billy Joel is a current major artist because he sells out Madison Sq. Garden. Where are her hits, hits being those insscapable songs that defy charts and are heard everywhere? Uptown Funk is one, Hit Me Baby One More Time was another, but what was Britney's hit these last ten years that anyone knows anymore or is heard anyplace? Where will anyone hear this "song" unless they go looking for it?

That song is horrible. It isn't even a song. Britney stopped being relevant years and years ago and she doesn't even have the voice to become an oldies act. She started out with a bang but except for her diehard fans has she had any mega hits that made a dent on the pop culture in the last ten years? She has no singing talent, is too old to appeal to teens and just has nothing to offer. It's sad really. Her teen pop peers either proved their staying power musically (Timberlake and Christina), hit the nostalgia circuit (BSB) or tastefully receded into obscurity (all of NSync except Timberlake). She doesn't have the sense to give it up.

Cersei sure went out of her way to get out of this marriage. It never even dawned on my that this is why she even bothered with this. Her son seems like such a nice kid, it's a shame he is surrounded by these people. I like the Bronn/Jaime story, they make a good team and t seems Bronn is just a character that would work well with anyone. I guess the most interesting scene was Stannis and his wife discussing Jon Snow, and Stannis throwing out this comment about Ned not being the type to fall for some slut, or whatever the term was. I guess that is clue enough that by the time the last episode airs it will be Jon who will be king. Just my theory. Whatever happened to Jon's uncle, the reason he joined the watch in the first place?

The media is always out to catch the Clintons in something. This will be of no consequence to them, just like the previous 500 scandals the media tried to sell. All you have to do is see how the NYT got into bed with that Clinton bashing book author to see they want a story and don't care where they get it. Clinton scandals sell I guess, and the democratic party as zero story or drama. They have to come up with something or they have nothing to cover.

This is also something you don't see anymore: the artistry of B/W and film noir. The image at the 12 second mark is something you can hang on the wall

I do believe Littlefinger told her this marriage was about revenge, so we'll see,

I love the Sansa twist. She is truly the strongest character on the show because she never stops enduring, and just when you think things can't get worse for her they do. I have a feeling though she will find a way to make the Boltons pay, and it will be great to see her reaction to the new Theon. I am going to assume there will be a dead Bolton somewhere down the line.

Cool blog. When is that photo on your page of Forrest Compton and Ann Flood from?

The NY Post reported days ago that PD was deemed a diva and SR was not going to have any more onset problems. This was PD's Drake Ramoray moment.

I like Cersei's story. I imagine her machinations will be her undoing because she is packing the offices with people not qualified for the job. Her uncle was right in everything he said to her, but I don't see him becoming a major character. LH does a great job as Cersei though and the way she clearly thought Jaime was an idiot for stating the obvious "It's a threat". And you have to love her unending contempt for Margeary. She has contempt for pretty much everybody and heeds no mind but her own. Tywin said it best a couple of years back: she isn't to be distrusted because she is a woman, she is to be distrusted because she is not as smart as she thinks she is. She's plenty smart, just not smart enough to run the kingdom. If she were she wouldn't be packing her council with nitwits just because she can control them. Tywin never did that; he packed his council with the A Team of King's Landing schemers and sneaks.

For once the best part of the episode featured Mhysa Khalisee Dany. Tactical error there, Mhysa. You needed to have a law for justifiable homicide or temporary insanity. This will come back to bite you. Loved Sam's speech. Strong episode all around and nice to see Bronn again.