Having stuffed poor Millie in a closet, the replacement Ethel Banks poses with her costars on the opening night of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK.

The Di Costanzo family, owners of a Mulberry Street restaurant, hold their annual family dinner in 1942. 35 years later, the Costanza family holds their annual Festivus dinner in Queens.

🎞️🎭🕺🎂Happy Tommy Rall's birthday!

🎹🎞️📺🎂"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I." Happy Oscar Levant's birthday!

🎬👩‍🎤🎂Happy Birthday, Marlene Dietrich!

I don't remember if this is a scene with Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard in "True Confession" (1937), or if they're just hanging out.

Dave Barry's annual year in review is always a welcome delight. davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

Happy Dion Boucicault's Birthday!

"White Christmas" is a very strange movie - from the lazy plotting to Danny satirizing Martha Graham of all people. Of course, Rosemary is delightful, but perhaps because the war was still in the public's mind, it became and has remained a staple. But, dear God.

Crowds line up in the rain to get inside the Radio City Music Hall to attend the annual Christmas show, 1961. AP Wirephoto.

This isn't a very good medley (and why is Ethel wearing that bedsheet), but Dean does something at 1:54 that almost saves it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRn...

Here is a piece I wrote a few years ago that is meant to be read aloud to dogs as they are seated in the glow of holiday related lights. It is, for dogs, a seasonal tale of HOPE AND RENEWAL. And it is about my dog Lewis. open.substack.com/pub/merrillm...

I can't help it. When I see this, the first thing I think of...

How fabulous - Graham Payn, Kay Thompson, Noël Coward, Enzio, Switzerland, 31st December, 1962.

Santa brought Archie a giant kong with a tennis ball inside, and I think it's fair to say he's obsessed with it.

Not close to the subway, but Santa Baby, all I want for Christmas is a 4 bedroom penthouse in a 15th Century Venetian palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. 🍷🥂🇮🇹✨ www.christiesrealestate.com/homes/italy/...

🎬🎂Happy Bogie's Birthday!

How bad were Trump's ratings? The Tony Awards got bigger numbers.

You can't spell "Santa" without "Satan"!

Santa's coming! Or perhaps he was on the run.

@alhirschfeld.bsky.social David, is this the one you meant? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlA...

They were stored with the toilet paper in a Mar-a-Lago shower. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Report: Last Night’s Kennedy Center Honors Ratings May Be Lowest Ever, Half as Much as Last Year with Around 3 Million Viewers. Didn't Trump vow to resign if he lost to Kimmel? www.showbiz411.com/2025/12/24/r... via @Showbiz411

This new "Rufus" AI feature on @Amazon is as welcome as having Stephen Miller insisting on being your salesman. And there's no way to turn it off.

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

$100 for a Cab to the Airport? It May Soon Get Worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/n...

Siri: define "Whorehouse Provincial", or as they nicknamed it in Paris, "Louis Can't". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Megyn Kelly finishes speech by spontaneously combusting into flames, earning a standing ovation from all sides. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

The Christmas Lindsay Graham learned they couldn't even give him away.

Christmas shopping at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London, December 1939.

🎭🎞️🎂Happy Ruth Chatterton's Birthday!

💃🎭🎂Happy Birthday, Carol Haney!

🩰🎵Watching Mikhail Baryshnikov's version of The Nutcracker (costarring Gelsey Kirkland and Alexander Minz). Why on earth would ABT not keep it in their repertory? It's nothing short of rapturous.

Well, this just ruined my entire holiday. How will I ever get through it? www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...

Sir, you are greatest host in the history of the planet, if not more.

Knowing how well Trump Airlines worked out, do we really want to risk Trump Battleships?

Let me try to wrap my head around this - because Trump claims DC is so crime-ridden that he had to send in the National Guard, he wants to loosen the gun law. Makes as much sense as anything else he's done or doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

If we can't get Jon Stewart to run (or a Stewart/Colbert slate), it's worth a thought or two. Just imagine him debating the couch fucker. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Because you can't have too many styles (and no, I don't get a dime out of it).

Mike Johnson turns off his anti-porn app, pops in his contacts, and goes into swinger mode during the holidays.

Park Avenue, 1920s.

🎞️🎂Happy Birthday, Eric Blore, who instantly improves a movie a billion percent (if not more) by simply showing up.

Could not be more appropriate for a gilded cathouse. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... via @thr