Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop

To any and all Trump defenders on TV, let me just say this... PLEASE stop saying "Nothing Burger."  As the "Seinfeld" episode says, it's played.  It barely played when it first debuted oh those many weeks ago.  As you may know, Urban Dictionary dot com defines "Nothing Burger" as a Trump surrogate's answer to temporarily downplay an(other) impending (Trump-based) scandal... basically like Chip Diller screaming "ALL IS WELL!" before he's trampled to comedic death / flatness, for a cinematic example.  But I always like to teach the controversy, and I think if a Trump supporter were here right now, he or she would probably say that I'm the Nothing Burger, and I'll see them in court.  Good strategy, even I admit!  Well, banana republics work differently that way.

But hey!  Let's stick with the big news.  Pixar's latest, Coco, is still #1 at the Box Office!  It's still having fun, and it's still #1.  And of course the Adobe Flash party is still raging on at Coco's official IMDb page, as it does with all these new releases.  Let's see the tumbleweeds over at A Bug's Life... an inadvertent segue!  But I was thinking about this, because Kevin Spacey accuser Anthony Rapp finds himself in the position of the guy in The Dark Knight (2008) that everyone wants to kill in order to prevent the demolition of a hospital.  Boy, the state of health care even sucks in the movies!  He apparently said that he's now known as the guy who destroyed "House of Cards."  Well, first of all, shame on the people for not knowing the physics behind a house of cards... unless they're glued together, as with some magic tricks, even a powerful enough sigh can knock it down.  Second, even I have to admit that Season 5 of the show has headed into shark-infested waters.  As much as I love Melissa James Gibson, she nevertheless made that all-important claim that Season 5 happened very "organically;" the death of Thomas Yates, on the other hand, smacked a little bit of Dow fertilizer.  But the marketplace of sexual harassers continues to be flooded this week, distracting from the marketplace of American mass shootings.  We've got Russell Simmons' Def Harassment Jam, we got "clean-cut" Garrison Keillor in trouble, and of course Matt Lauer.  Personally, I thought that this was a troubling sign, but what do I know.  Too squeamish, I guess.
No debuts to report on this week, but the battle between Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri duking it out for indie cred in the bottom half of the Top 10 this week.  I'd be very surprised, however, if either Laurie Metcalf or Frances McDormand appear on "Saturday Night Live," even in cameo roles.  Too old to host, right?