My ex and I went on a vacation once; he had picked a place that only made up the rooms on alternate days. I almost wept (this was when the kids were wee, and much more of my time went in to cleaning up after them). I don't think he ever truly understood that THAT'S THE REASON HOTELS ARE MAGIC. (And of course, the reason why you tip housekeeping EVERY DAY.)

It's wonderful the impact of that show. They set out to show black and hispanic kids a representation of themselves on tv, but they ended up also introducing generations of white suburban and small-town kids to positive representations of black and hispanic people. <3

Good luck!

I've met him, too! He married a woman I was an acquaintance of, and before she left town to marry him I had to pick up some paperwork from her - and there was Gordon, in her apartment, lounging on the sofa. I told him that my husband credited him and Morgan Freeman with his lack of racism (his entire family is heinous that way) - because they were the first two black men he ever saw, as a toddler, and by the time people were trying to teach him that black men were scary, he felt like he knew that they weren't, because Gordon was his friend. Anyway, Gordon (Roscoe) was very gracious and awesome in real life.

Many years ago, I was in a dive bar here in Nashville, and was introduced to Woody Harrelson. I was tipsy, and tv's were smaller back then, so perhaps that explains what I said: "Wow, it's so nice to meet you, and see you actual-size." I meant "as opposed to tiny on my tv screen," but by the way he stalked off, I assume he thought it was a dig at how I towered over him (I'm 5'10", and was wearing heels)... oops.

A couple of years before that, in the early 90s, Tom Wopat (the lesser Duke brother, and at that time, country music recording artist) hit on me in a bar.

I would also ask her why she finds your singledom so troubling - because clearly she is acting out for SOME reason, and it's much more likely about HER. Is she scared of the changes in her life? Is she worried you'll drift apart if she gets married and you find joy and strength in being on your own? Does she have some weird internalized belief that being alone is a fate worse than death? Maybe you'll give her pause that she'll look at herself rather than criticizing you... But definitely let her know, too, that by not respecting your wishes in this, she is disrespecting YOU, and that is Not Okay. You know what you need. If she can't grasp that, she doesn't get to be in your life.

I thought it was parody at first, too. How can "Exercises with a Stick!" possibly be a real headline?!?

Also, from the Salon article that link excerpts:

"Which is why you and Sinead O’Connor boycotted the show he was hosting. Why did Jon Lovitz get so angry about it?

I will never know what his problem was. He actually did an impression of Andrew Dice Clay. He used to play that shit on a big boom box. Don’t tell me something isn’t garbage when it’s garbage, because I know what garbage is. Actually, I don’t know because Jon Lovitz had said something to me in front of k.d. lang, on the stage. I was talking to her. She was our host and Jon comes over and says, “Be careful, she’s a lesbian.” She was our musical guest. I was like, “What is that? Is that a joke?” I don’t think that they understood where I was coming from there—I’m not going to perform with [Clay]. It was offensive to me to read [in the press] that I didn’t like him because he was foul-mouthed. My friends know me. I’m from Chicago. I’m a Bears fan, I’m a Hawks fan for my whole life. My brothers played football, my grandfather and my oldest brother were football coaches, and believe me when I watch a game, the language I use is not for the Disney family hour. I don’t have a problem with swearing. I enjoy it.

It’s one of life’s great pleasures.

My objection to Andrew Dice Clay was that his character was only about one thing: abusing women and laughing about abusing women. There was nothing else behind it. There was nothing else about it except to make him look harmless."

The full article is here: http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/nora_dunn_snl_is_...

She talks about it a little here:
http://uproxx.com/tv/nora-dunn-explains-why-she-r...

She'd been on the show for 5 years, she was brilliant, she took stand, and that was the end of her.

That was Nora Dunn, who was pretty great herself. She was forced out after she refused to perform on a show with misogynist pig Andrew "Dice" Clay as the host.