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		<title>The best Superbowl commercial</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2012/02/05/15712</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like this one the best, so far. There are a bunch here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like this one the best, so far.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0-9EYFJ4Clo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>There are a bunch <a href="http://www.nj.com/super-bowl/index.ssf/2012/02/super_bowl_commercials_2012_watch_them_here.html">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Just a test</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2012/01/31/15683</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Richard Schiff: Don&#8217;t ever speak in a faux British accent again. Really. Boy, did you suck in this week&#8217;s episode of Once Upon A Time. That is all. (P.S.: Stick to cranky characters like Toby in &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2012/01/31/15683">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An open letter to Richard Schiff:</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t ever speak in a faux British accent again.</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>Boy, did you suck in this week&#8217;s episode of Once Upon A Time.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>(P.S.: Stick to cranky characters like Toby in the West Wing, and please make sure to speak in your natural accent.)</p>
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		<title>Your pre-Thanksgiving briefs</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/11/23/15364</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wounded Iraq War vet wins Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Martinez, whom I know from All My Children, won the big prize on the show that I don&#8217;t watch (but Mom does, and I told her he would win). Next &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/11/23/15364">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Wounded Iraq War vet wins Dancing With the Stars:</strong> J.R. Martinez, whom I know from All My Children, <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/11/23/jr-martinez-wins-dancing-with-stars/">won the big prize</a> on the show that I don&#8217;t watch (but Mom does, and I told her he would win). Next for him, since AMC was canceled: He wants to write a book to tell his story. You go, J.R.</p>
<p><strong>A first look at German anti-Semitism:</strong> An <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/2198.html">English excerpt</a> of a new book on why the Germans hated the Jews. Interesting stats on the ratio of Jews to Christians in schools, which, of course, caused problems for the great unwashed masses who thought that reading was bad for the eyes and they didn&#8217;t need none of that there learnin&#8217; stuff. Say, sounds like what still goes on today: Envy of Jews performing well in the arts, sciences, and banking.</p>
<p><strong>Seriously? They&#8217;re quoting that scumbag again?</strong> Someone needs to tell <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4152023,00.html">Ynet</a> that Silverstein is an excecrable Jewish anti-Zionist and Jew-hater, and if he told me it was raining, I&#8217;d bring my sunglasses. Sure, he knows why the Hizballah bases blew up. Right.</p>
<p>No way this can go wrong: Israel kept its contract with Turkey and returned drones after performing maintenance on them. Oh. Wait. <em>Maintenance.</em> Okay, good name for it. Spyware added.</p>
<p><strong>What? UN Human Rights bitching about something other than Israel?</strong> Check the air for flying pigs. Navi Pillay is <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=246685">criticizing Egypt</a> for killing its citizens.</p>
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		<title>Seriously? You&#8217;re fact-checking a COMEDY?</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/10/30/15264</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously. Much like the theme song from &#8220;Laverne and Shirley,&#8221; which declared, &#8220;Making our dreams come true for me and you,&#8221; &#8220;2 Broke Girls&#8221; features Max and Caroline brewing a dream of their own: a cupcake business. As the season &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/10/30/15264">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/2-broke-girls-cupcake-dreams-dont-measure-reality-212600037.html">Seriously</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Much like the theme song from &#8220;Laverne and Shirley,&#8221; which declared, &#8220;Making our dreams come true for me and you,&#8221; &#8220;2 Broke Girls&#8221; features Max and Caroline brewing a dream of their own: a cupcake business. As the season has progressed, the two become dollars and cents closer to the enigmatic funding goal of $250,000, which Caroline reveals at the tail end of the pilot episode.</p>
<p>Exactly how she landed on that figure is somewhat of a mystery. The show&#8217;s writers explain it away with Caroline&#8217;s reveal that she went to business school. In the next scene, she admits she&#8217;s been secretly price-gouging Max&#8217;s red velvet cupcakes at $7 a pop.</p>
<p>This is the first fallacy in the show&#8217;s portrayal of the cupcake scene in New York City or anywhere else. No one is selling cupcakes for $7. The top shops in the city peddling the sweet confections are arguably Crumbs Bake Shop, which debuted on NASDAQ in June of last year, and Magnolia Bakery, made famous by its notorious endorsement in &#8220;Sex and the City.&#8221; Both are selling cupcakes between $3 and $4.50, depending on the amount of sugar they&#8217;re topped with. $7 is almost double that price. </p></blockquote>
<p>2 Broke Girls is the funniest new show on TV. I love it. It&#8217;s a must-watch. But seriously? The author is fact-checking the business plan of a <em>comedy</em>show? Really? Because you know, when the Fonz hit the soda machine and got free sodas, that was totally realistic. </p>
<p>Seriously? </p>
<blockquote><p>It makes you wonder what other business-savvy nonsense Caroline is spewing. In a later episode, she pines, &#8220;I really need this cupcake business,&#8221; as if it&#8217;s the one thing that will propel her back into the cushy existence previously afforded by her father, who has since been busted a la Bernie Madoff. In reality, however, there&#8217;s probably a better way to invest $250,000 in a business paradigm that isn&#8217;t as mint as it was a few years ago. </p></blockquote>
<p>No, it makes you laugh. Because that&#8217;s the point of a comedy&#8211;making you laugh. To do so, you deliberately exaggerate and obfuscate facts and reality.</p>
<p>Boy, someone needs a crash course on what constitutes a comedy, because the last time I checked, paying strict attention to the actual prices of cupcakes wasn&#8217;t on the list.</p>
<p>Say, Jaebi Iam? You need to take a chill pill, or something. Nobody cares if Caroline&#8217;s cupcake strategy is right or wrong. We just care if it&#8217;s funny.</p>
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		<title>Any One Life to Live fans out there?</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/10/13/15193</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have figured out who killed Victor, and why, and will reveal all in the comments. I think it&#8217;s one of the most clever plotlines I&#8217;ve seen since I began watching soaps.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have figured out who killed Victor, and why, and will reveal all in the comments. I think it&#8217;s one of the most clever plotlines I&#8217;ve seen since I began watching soaps.</p>
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		<title>Friday brieflings</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/09/09/15024</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is just funny: Read it in full, and yes, there are bad words in it, but this is utterly hilarious. A rocker explains why he won&#8217;t let Glee cover his songs. (For the records, every time I&#8217;ve watched &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/09/09/15024">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Okay, this is just funny:</strong> Read it in full, and yes, there are bad words in it, but this is utterly hilarious. A rocker explains <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/08/foo-fighters-front-man-i-shouldnt-have-to-do-fking-glee/">why he won&#8217;t let Glee cover his songs</a>. (For the records, every time I&#8217;ve watched Glee I&#8217;ve lasted all of five minutes before nodding off. And I LOVE musicals.)</p>
<p><strong>Sorkin does Olbermann:</strong> Oh, no way this one ends well. Aaron Sorkin is doing <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_18852811">a series for HBO</a> on a cable news program. Expect retreads of whatever that SNL clone show drama was, plus the West Wing, plus a large, healthy does of uber-left POV, and, of course, much mocking of the internets. Since I don&#8217;t have HBO, this is an extremely easy choice: Pass.</p>
<p><strong>Turkey&#8217;s looking to get kicked out of NATO:</strong> Erdogan says he&#8217;s going to protect the next Gaza flotilla with <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4119834,00.html">Turkish warships</a>. So basically, one of our NATO allies is threatening another of our allies. I think it&#8217;s all talk, because I don&#8217;t think Erdogan actually wants to start a shooting war over the Palestinians. No Muslim country really does, as we know they&#8217;re ready to fight to the last Palestinian, but unwilling to jump in if their own soldiers will be slaughtered. (Mad Mullahs and Jihadis not included.) Oh, the main reason I&#8217;m calling bullshit on this? There is no new flotilla planned. Right now, it&#8217;s all hot air.</p>
<p><strong>Didn&#8217;t we see this bit before?</strong> Wait, didn&#8217;t Saddam Hussein keep transmitting from hiding? Because now <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4119698,00.html">Gadaffy is doing it</a>. Yeah, good luck to you, dude. In fact, I hope you have the exact same luck as Saddam had. Buh-bye!</p>
<p><strong>Oh, there was a <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/08/quotes-of-the-day-796/">presidential speech</a> last night?</strong> Yeah, I forgot. Caught the last five minutes of it. Boy, Obama had his Stern Look on, as well as his Grownup In The Room. And nobody cared. I was more interested in the way Verizon took control of my DVR to send an emergency broadcast warning for flash floods in my area. (And I was planning on standing on the bank of the James River to watch the waters rise, too. No, not really. I was planning on going to the supermarket, but the torrential downpour changed my mind.)</p>
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		<title>Sunday snarks</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/08/07/14821</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aw, c&#8217;mon, we want Israel to go bankrupt like the EU is going to! Tent cities in Israel are being replicated in Times Square (kinda sorta), where, apparently, Israelis and Jews alike are ignoring the warning signs in the U.S. &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/08/07/14821">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Aw, c&#8217;mon, we want Israel to go bankrupt like the EU is going to!</strong> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=232837">Tent cities</a> in <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4105195,00.html">Israel</a> are being replicated in <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=232839">Times Square</a> (kinda sorta), where, apparently, Israelis and Jews alike are ignoring the warning signs in the U.S. (S&#038;P downgrade, anyone?). Say, people? You&#8217;re going to eventually <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/8685945/If-we-are-to-survive-the-looming-catastrophe-we-need-to-face-the-truth.html">run out of other people&#8217;s money</a> to spend. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/07/sp-bond-rater-its-the-debt-stupid/">It&#8217;s the debt, stupid</a>. The debt. Five years ago, I had more outgo than income, and a debt up to my ears. I worked my ass off and reversed the situation. Today&#8217;s debt total: $700, the remains of my interest-free credit card debt for my Lasik surgery, which will be paid off in a few weeks. If only the U.S. government were as financially stable as I.</p>
<p><strong>The marvelous equality of women under sharia law:</strong> Yep, women are <em>so</em> equal under sharia law, that Iran is <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/iran_arrests_youths_over_new_water_fight/24289499.html">arresting teenagers for having waterfights</a>. Because boys and girls are playing doing it together. Now that&#8217;s equality!</p>
<p><strong>Um, what?</strong> The Arab League is actually <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/arab-league-calls-on-syria-to-halt-violence-as-more-than-60-die-in-latest-assad-crackdown-1.377461">calling on Syria to stop killing</a> its own. Of course, the laughable excuse is that there is still a chance for &#8220;reform.&#8221; Sure. That&#8217;s what Assad is doing, &#8220;reforming&#8221; Hama. Well, if you consider in the verb &#8220;to form again,&#8221; he is. Turkey&#8217;s <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/turkish-fm-to-travel-to-syria-to-deliver-rebuke-1.377401">on his case</a>, too. If only the Obama administration would, you know, do something. Anything. Except issue the strong-worded statement. In the meantime, Syrian deaths are in the thousands, and we have yet to see the worldwide condemnation like we saw of Israel during the last Gaza war. Amazing, that. I just can&#8217;t figure out why it&#8217;s okay for the Arab world to murder thousands of its unarmed civilians, but when Israel fights back against terrorists and kills them by the hundreds, it&#8217;s a war crime. Go figure.</p>
<p><strong>Noooooooooooooo!</strong> Desperate Housewives is going into <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2011/08/abc-confirms-desperate-housewives-exit/1">its last season</a>? Where will I get my guilty pleasure fun show to watch on Sunday night now? I love that show! It&#8217;s sheer fluff and amusement, no thinkers need apply. Gabby&#8217;s my favorite. She&#8217;s never been the shallow, selfish, self-absorbed beauty queen she pretends to be. Oh, well. Some other show will be developed that I&#8217;ll find instead. And I&#8217;ll enjoy my last season.</p>
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		<title>The Seriously? news briefs</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/07/14/14698</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t make this shit up: Palestinians are going to boycott companies that don&#8217;t boycott settlement products by obeying the new anti-boycott law in Israel. Seriously. And the Russians like to pretend to be honest brokers: The Russians, at the &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/07/14/14698">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>You can&#8217;t make this shit up:</strong> Palestinians are going to <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4095208,00.html">boycott</a> companies that don&#8217;t boycott settlement products by obeying the new anti-boycott law in Israel. Seriously.</p>
<p><strong>And the Russians like to pretend to be honest brokers:</strong> The Russians, at the Palestinian behest, prevented the Quartet from issuing a statement demanding that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Note that they won&#8217;t do that <em>even if asked to do so while demanding Israel return to the 1949 Armistice lines.</em> Seriously.</p>
<p><strong>Oh noes! Israel is recruiting &#8220;collaborators&#8221; through online games!</strong> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=229273">Seriously</a>.</p>
<p><strong>So long, Sherwood:</strong> Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan&#8217;s Island and the Brady Bunch (both staples of my childhood), is <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/sherwood-schwartz-creator-of-brady-bunch-and-gilligan-s-island-dies-at-94-1.373018">no more</a>. His name will be remembered as long as there are reruns. Seriously. </p>
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		<title>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy: Jumping the shark, with music</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2011/04/02/12094</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meryl Yourish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Grey&#8217;s anatomy. I love musicals. And I&#8217;ve liked the few TV show musical episodes that have popped up here and there. The Buffy the Vampire musical episode was wonderful (except for the fact that Joss insisted on allowing &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2011/04/02/12094">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Grey&#8217;s anatomy. I love musicals. And I&#8217;ve liked the few TV show musical episodes that have popped up here and there. The Buffy the Vampire musical episode was wonderful (except for the fact that Joss insisted on allowing all the cast members to sing, even the ones who couldn&#8217;t). It had logic, it had theme, it had fun. The excuse? A demon cast a spell over the town so that everybody sang instead of talked. The result? A Buffy episode you could dance to.</p>
<p>The Scrubs musical episode enlisted the talent that gave us Avenue Q, right down to one of the stars of the show. The excuse? A patient who passed out in the park and woke up to hear everybody bursting into song. Every time that patient came into contact with the staff, songs occurred. When she woke up in the end of the episode after being operated on, the music was gone&#8212;except for the humming she did to herself to end the show.</p>
<p>This week, Grey&#8217;s Anatomy tried it. And created the <a href="http://www.popeater.com/2011/03/30/greys-anatomy-musical-episode/">worst-ever</a> episode of the entire series. They jumped that shark, all right. Sara Ramirez has a wonderful voice. (She&#8217;s a Tony winner.) So did many of the other cast members. I love the song &#8220;Chasing Cars,&#8221; and I liked a couple of the other songs. But the show was boring, predictable, and, well, stupid. It managed to take what should have been a moving, unique experience and turn it into &#8220;Hey! Glee&#8217;s getting awesome ratings, let&#8217;s try to copy what they do!&#8221;</p>
<p>The logic was inconsistent. They tried to have the gravely-injured Callie be the center of the songs with an out-of-body experience. Doctors sang as they worked to save her life. (Enter: The Fray&#8217;s &#8220;How to Save a Life.&#8221; And yet, singing doctors left the operating room and continued to sing while they walked through the hospital to comfort grieving doctors. Why even pretend that you have logic behind the songs when you throw it away the first chance you get? And we&#8217;re back to, &#8220;Hey! Glee&#8217;s getting awesome ratings, let&#8217;s try to copy what they do!&#8221;</p>
<p>The other side of the coin: Most of the songs sucked. I&#8217;m not alone in that review. Let&#8217;s see: <a href="http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/04/01/the-morning-after-greys-harmony/">Fail</a>. <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/love_that_tv/?p=496">Fail</a>. <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/greys_anatomys_doctorhorrible.html">Fail</a>. <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/31/greys-anatomy-song-beneath-the-song-tv-recap/?mod=google_news_blog">Super Fail</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The doctors sing to Callie as she’s being wheeled to surgery. It’s unclear if she was crying from the pain or the sound of their voices, which were equally painful.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, except they&#8217;re not crying in pain. The ratings were through the roof, and the songs are making iTunes stars out of the Grey&#8217;s Anatomy cast. But I promise you this: If there&#8217;s a second musical episode, I&#8217;m so not there.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Visitors return in a couple of weeks, and I, for one, welcome our rodent-eating overlords. (Or at least, I welcome the continuing series about them. In real life, ew.) News for the new season: Jane Badler, the original series&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://www.yourish.com/2010/12/19/12975">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/v">Visitors</a> return in a couple of weeks, and I, for one, welcome our rodent-eating overlords. (Or at least, I welcome the continuing series about them. In real life, ew.)</p>
<p>News for the new season: Jane Badler, the original series&#8217; Diana is going to be <a href="http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/09/v-spoilers-where-is-annas-mother/">Anna&#8217;s mother</a>. I really, really, really hope she eats a rodent or three. </p>
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<p>I cannot wait to see what they do with her in the new series. </p>
<p>Wait, wait! <a href="http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/11/marc-singer-to-resurface-on-v/">Marc Singer</a> is going to be on the series, too! Oh, my. I was so in love with him in the eighties. Especially in that little loincloth he wore for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/">Beastmaster</a>. But really, I liked him for his mind. Honest. I swear. </p>
<p>Ahem. Back to the current V. Just remember: They are of peace, always. Just like the Iranians.</p>
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